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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Photography

    AI or not AI?

    October 3, 2023 /

    The original title of this photograph was ‘When the wait to see the doctor is too long’, and it was intended to illustrate how the ‘framing’ of an image into a particular concept changes – or creates from scratch – its overall meaning.However, when a friend of mine saw it, he commented, ‘Is this made by AI?’ Making a pun with my initials, I replied ‘No, it is not AI, it is AM’.Joking aside, what made me think is that this image could not have been further from being AI-generated: it was shot on film, with a twenty-year-old point-and-shoot camera loaded with a fifteen-year-old Ilford HP5 400 roll, yet it…

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    Portrait of The Alfa Romeo Guru

    September 25, 2014

    The Godfather

    July 23, 2014

    Daniele Silvestri – Teatri 2022 – Live@Teatro Massimo, Pescara

    December 16, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Observer Bias,  PhotoCritics,  Rome,  Winter

    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019 /

    The original idea behind this picture was to match the emptiness of the shop with the facelessness of the mannequin posing as a store clerk, to convey a general feeling of depersonalization. Unfortunately, the big lightblot represented by the poster close to the mannequin catches the observer’s attention and reduce the effectiveness of the composition. Instead of connecting the mannequin with the internal part of the store thus making sense of the whole picture, the eye just “sees” an ad poster.

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    Vasa’s Ghost

    July 11, 2016

    Yellow

    December 15, 2014

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Jewelry,  Observer Bias,  PhotoCritics,  Rome,  Winter

    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019 /

    This photo conveys a message of “rejection”: first, a security guard who blocks access to the jewellery and then a signal of a prohibition of access reinforces the concept, thanks to a composition that guides the eye to a diagonal that goes from the bottom to the top, from left to right. Obviously, there is nothing “true” about all this because the overall result is the result of the organization of the spaces and the management of the perspective that allow connecting semantically elements that, in reality, have no relationship between them. It would have been enough to shoot from a different angle – or not juxtapose the security guard…

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    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017

    (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Odds,  Visual,  Winter

    Not A Rorschach Inkblot

    December 24, 2017 /

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    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013

    Kristina Miller live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022

    Staying Behind

    November 28, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  People,  Summer

    A Dragon Trainer?

    July 8, 2014 /

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    A Blue Vespa

    November 3, 2014

    5 Frames from our Tragic Past Shot with an iPhone 14 Pro Max

    April 4, 2025

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014 /

    When it comes to food, Italians aren’t short of reasons to sit and eat!

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    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021

    Generations – I

    August 6, 2014
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  Visual

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014 /

    Another example of the constant brain’s meaning quest in the things the eye sees.

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    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013

    Duel

    November 20, 2014

    Desolation

    May 13, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014 /

    Still experimenting with a 1973-made Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye.

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    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

    Hard Stare

    April 26, 2016

    Not Sure I Would Like The Feel

    November 22, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Bent

    April 21, 2014 /

    What’s wrong with this photo? Right, that’s one of the zillion’s, ubiquitous, boring rural landscape pictures. There is something, nevertheless, odd: panning from right to left everything starts bending. The foreground tree is vertical so is the red house, but when the road starts bending, the whole horizon does… The effect is achieved with no digital doctoring, just with a fish-eye (Nikon 16mm F/3,5) and a mindful composition.

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    Partner in Glam

    May 3, 2023

    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014

    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Observer Bias,  People,  Photography,  Spring

    Brain vs Camera

    April 19, 2014 /

    The picture on the left is what the camera saw. The picture on the right is what I had in mind while shooting. Thanks to Photoshop I’ve been able to bend the “objectivity” of the camera along the line of my creativity.

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    The audience

    September 23, 2013

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013

    Fisherman’s Fatigue

    December 19, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Rollercoaster (kind of)

    April 3, 2014 /

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    A Fashion Shop in Milan

    January 21, 2014

    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    Beer or Spritz?

    November 1, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014 /

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    A Beverage Dispenser

    November 21, 2014

    Overexposed?

    March 14, 2013

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Visual

    Ni

    January 26, 2014 /

    Just a couple of broken woods, or the Katakana symbok for “Ni”?

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    My camera’s early test shots

    December 20, 2012

    Three Tires

    May 18, 2022

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  People,  Photography

    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013 /

    We do see, in a picture, what we want to see. While the vast majority would focus on the dynamics between the shooter with the hoodie and the man with spectacles, those familiar with the inner circle of photography in Pescara will immediately spot, behind the man, Mrs. Franca Cauti, the Big Boss at Ohmasa Foto Video…

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    The Shoesfixer

    September 7, 2014

    An Old Boxing Gym

    February 22, 2016

    A kiss in the shade

    March 17, 2013
  • Artists,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Photography,  Thoughts

    When The Passion Is Gone (thank to a sneaky photographer)

    August 21, 2013 /

    The close-up delivers a feeling of hot passion, as often tangueros do. But a wider view, including that sneaky photographer, kills the mood.

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    EOS-M. An act of fairness

    July 24, 2013

    @Rome Maker Faire – 4. The Hands Controller

    October 16, 2014

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022

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