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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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    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013

    A Bookstore in the Gallery

    December 22, 2013
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Summer

    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016 /

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    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015

    @Rome Maker Faire – 6. A Statue(?)

    October 21, 2014

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 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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    National Security

    April 4, 2014

    Portrait of a politician – 1

    October 25, 2013

    Shrinking Knowledge Into A Small Brain

    July 24, 2018
  • 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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    Countersniping

    February 7, 2014

    So what?

    April 9, 2013

    The Lost Battle

    January 11, 2014
  • Colour,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

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

    December 8, 2015 /

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    Who Said That Music Is Relaxing?

    August 14, 2013

    Outside the Nobel Museum

    June 30, 2016

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • 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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    Out-of-Focus

    September 24, 2013

    Close up of an Ethnic Chessboard

    September 1, 2018

    The Worst Moment to Fix a Shoe’s Problem

    April 14, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Winter

    Out-of-Focus Once Again

    February 28, 2015 /

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    Portrait of Keyboard Player

    May 18, 2014

    Landed

    December 19, 2013

    The Lost Hotel

    September 5, 2014
  • 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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    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Nagasaki Biker

    February 13, 2024

    Lotus Tweak

    July 31, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus

    Dreaming Of Giulietta (sprint)

    September 24, 2014 /

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    A Blue Vespa

    November 3, 2014

    Restaurant or Hellgate?

    June 21, 2013

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014 /

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    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017

    Time Runs Fast

    May 21, 2014

    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014
  • 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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    Welcome in the Twilight Zone

    January 3, 2014

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    Outdoor Aperitif

    April 7, 2017
  • 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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    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015

    Boat Maintenance At Genova’s Porto Antico

    July 30, 2014

    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022
  • 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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    The Sailor

    June 24, 2013

    After the Party

    December 16, 2013

    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013

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