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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  PhotoCritics,  Rome,  Visual,  Winter

    Photopanning in Rome

    December 3, 2019 /

    Photo panning is an art in itself and – when adequately practised – is able to deliver a stunning visual experience. In this picture (that has not been altered but for contrast and clarity) the overall experience reminds the Impressionism aesthetics.

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    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Fishing Shelter Under The Bridge

    September 4, 2014

    Wire Stylist

    January 31, 2015
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Summer

    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016 /

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    Barbarians at the Gates

    September 21, 2013

    The Sharp Shooter

    March 10, 2015

    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Rome,  Visual,  Winter

    Multiple Peripheral Visions

    February 10, 2016 /

    This frame was shot instinctively—no time to refocus, no second attempt. What emerged is less a photograph than a study in misdirection. Every figure in this image is out of focus, yet the meaning is sharper than most high-resolution portraits. The scene plays like theatre. A soldier, heavily armed, stands at ease in the foreground. A woman in heels walks away, blurred into silhouette. In the background, people sit, smoke, talk, check phones. The corridor and its black door—dead centre, unnerving in its neutrality—stares back like a question. The sign reads “BALCONE DIPLOMATICO,” almost comical in its contrast to the ordinariness of what surrounds it. Technically, it’s a failure by…

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    Partner in Glam

    May 3, 2023

    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013

    Tiles

    October 31, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  Rome,  Visual

    Without Glasses @ via del Corso

    January 25, 2016 /

    I made this photograph in Rome on a wet afternoon, deliberately throwing the focus to the foreground while the main figures walked straight into softness. It’s not a mistake. It’s an exercise in perceptual ambiguity—what the world looks like when memory is sharper than vision, when emotion fills in the blanks that optics don’t. The Fujifilm X100s, with its fixed 23mm f/2 lens, let me shoot discreetly. I prefocused on the pavement, framed instinctively, and let the rest blur into suggestion. The couple—arms linked, shopping bags swinging, half-sheltered under an umbrella—aren’t anonymous; they’re imagined. Their presence is read through posture, not detail. Technically, it’s anti-precision. Depth of field was shallow,…

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    An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One Shot Story

    August 27, 2025

    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014

    Nick Beggs

    July 12, 2017
  • Colour,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015 /

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    A Frame Within a Frame Within a Frame

    April 23, 2023

    Night Shift At The Gas Station

    November 11, 2013

    A Street-Skater

    March 17, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Street Photography,  Winter

    The Street Photographer Dilemma: Film or Digital

    March 21, 2015 /

    To me Street-Photography is digital. I missed this shot because I wasn’t able to properly focus my full-manual kit, as I would have do with an average digital camera. There is no point in wasting film in an highly fault-rate activity such as Street Photography.

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    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016

    Fujifilm XF 100-400: a quick test

    January 12, 2018

    Mind The Gap!

    July 5, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Winter

    Out-of-Focus Once Again

    February 28, 2015 /

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    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014

    Traffic Jam in Rome

    December 14, 2015

    Pipes in Colour

    May 1, 2015
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Boulevards,  Daily photo,  Oslo,  OutOfFocus,  People

    Out Of Focus, Once More

    October 6, 2014 /

    Missed focus. Again. And no, it wasn’t intentional. This wasn’t a conceptual experiment, nor a nod to dreamlike abstraction. It was simply a technical failure, shot with a manual lens, rushed framing, and an optimistic assumption that I’d nailed the hyperfocal distance. I hadn’t. Still, I kept the frame. It’s a street in Munich, pigeons pecking at the ground, firemen walking down the centre. A homeless encampment crowds the left edge. None of it sharp. But despite that—or maybe because of it—the image speaks. Context persists. Silhouettes are enough. The story doesn’t vanish with the detail. Technically, the photo lacks precision: the aperture was too wide, depth of field too…

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    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018

    Passage Lost

    August 9, 2014

    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus

    Dreaming Of Giulietta (sprint)

    September 24, 2014 /

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    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021

    A Droplet

    February 21, 2021
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014 /

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    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018

    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024

    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  Paris,  People,  Spring,  Visual

    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014 /

    This was intentional. No missed autofocus, no technical glitch. I set the lens manually, focused nowhere, and waited for someone to walk into the blur. He did—carrying two bright yellow bags, dressed sharply but casually, perfectly unremarkable in the sharp world we expect from street photography. The concept was simple: remove clarity and see what remains. What I found was structure. Colour. Gait. Gesture. A kind of abstraction that doesn’t erase the human, just detaches it from identification. No face. No detail. But still a presence. Technically, the image defies critique by design. It isn’t sharp—at all. The highlights push into soft bloom, the street dissolves into haze, and the…

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    Abstract

    May 9, 2023

    The Lost Lock

    June 12, 2014

    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  Visual

    Out of Focus, again

    October 3, 2013 /

    Again a non intended, out-of-focus image – missed shot, in other words. Nevertheless I like the “visual” effect.

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    A Mini At The Garage

    June 16, 2013

    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013

    Becoming a Human Tripod

    January 9, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Social Control

    Out-of-Focus

    September 24, 2013 /

    My fault, but – somehow – I find this picture evocative.

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    Portrait of Keyboard Player

    May 18, 2014

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013

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