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  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 6 – Kodak Portra 400 – November 2016 shot in Sept. 2023

    June 5, 2024

    Ultras

    July 20, 2016

    Seeing What Isn’t There

    October 27, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014 /

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    Strategy

    September 20, 2018

    A Tree through the Fog

    January 5, 2014

    Waiting For A Customer To Come

    July 27, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014 /

    Midnight still has to come. But in Bruxelles even ghosts wake up early…

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    Outdoor Aperitif

    April 7, 2017

    Careful With That Bike, Eugene!

    July 29, 2013

    The Naughty Customer’s Place

    September 28, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    Another experiment with the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye. Using this lens in a less conventional way is really challenging for the composition. Keep trying.

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    A Spanish Long Jumper

    September 11, 2022

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014 /

    They seem to like sun-bathing more than sword-fighting…

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    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013

    Landed

    December 19, 2013

    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Urban Totem

    April 29, 2014 /

    Once upon a time, a totem helped the soul to get in touch with gods. Nowadays it helps the stomach to be fed.

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    God of the Sea or Restaurant Banner?

    July 15, 2014

    A jam in via Alessandria

    December 8, 2023

    Stripes in B&W

    April 29, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Wrestling, Italy vs France (And a primer on sport photography – Part 5)

    October 9, 2015

    Twin Helmets

    July 21, 2015

    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013
  • 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 Broken Gearwheel

    August 27, 2014

    DSLR film scanning: episode three

    January 24, 2023

    A Jazz-Manouche Guitar Player

    August 17, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    This time I’ve enabled the lens correction feature so that the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye  horizon doesn’t looked curved.

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    The Gas Station Attendant

    November 11, 2013

    Meeting on the board

    April 21, 2013

    The Real Street Photographer

    February 25, 2013
  • People

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Learning to Fly

    August 23, 2018

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

    October 21, 2014

    Pavement

    November 16, 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. It wasn’t supposed to look back. This is the underside of a building’s curved overhang, a detail most people would never glance up to see. Shot from the ground in perfect alignment, it becomes something else entirely: an iris of steel and shadow, a lens with no glass, watching the world below. I titled it The Eye not just for the shape, but for the feeling. The symmetry is strict—deliberate, almost mechanical—yet the reflection in the polished granite softens it, turning precision into something poetic. A full circle emerges where there’s only a half. What’s solid becomes imagined.…

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    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014

    Bulbs

    January 12, 2015

    Natural Silohuette

    September 8, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    W Verdi

    January 29, 2014

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014

    The Flame is Still Burning…

    June 23, 2018
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    Player&Listener

    June 30, 2014

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014

    The Bell Ringer of Nikko

    August 6, 2018
  • 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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    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014
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    A stupid quarrell

    April 7, 2013

    Meaningless

    November 9, 2013
  • 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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    Barbarians at the Gates

    September 21, 2013

    Silhouettes@Osaka Castle

    June 12, 2018

    Fireworks

    January 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Milan,  People

    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014 /

    I like this photo very much. The two travelers, mutually unbeknownst, stroke a pose like if they were on duty fashion models. Unfortunately, the Fujifulm X-E1 autofocus didn’t work fast enough and, as I’ve already told, zone-focusing is a pain in the neck without a properly marked focus-ring. Long live to Hasselblad, Zeiss, Leica and Nikon…

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    Is This My Breakfast? (Kirobo, the new Pinocchio)

    December 14, 2014

    Wonder wall…

    June 8, 2021

    Lockpicking Tools

    December 11, 2018
  • 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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    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    A shot wasted by Iphone 7 plus poor low light performance

    January 22, 2019

    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016
  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014 /

    Who cares about pickpockets?

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    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015

    The Unresting Lawyer

    February 6, 2017

    Guarding Democracy

    June 14, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014 /

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    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013

    PI Room At Palais de la Découverte

    June 7, 2015

    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014 /

    The Abundance’s Paradox

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    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013

    A Skateboarder

    November 23, 2021

    Autumn Leaves

    September 8, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Spring,  Street Markets

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014 /

    The X-E1 is a good camera, though has some annoyances that make it less handy for Street Photography. Contrary to Leica, (some) Zeiss or (some) Nikon lenses, zone-focusing is not set on the lens barrel. You must do it either through the viewfinder or the LCD, and this makes problematic the switch from one technique to another. Same is true for aperture settings. Operating the camera one-handed, happened twice to me, led to a change of the image quality settings from RAW to Jpg. Unfortunately I wasn’t aware while shooting and I’ve wasted half a day in Barcelona getting inferior quality pictures.

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    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021

    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013

    Late-afternoon’s snack

    April 15, 2013
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014 /

    They’re close, but never been so distant

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    An old-style ATM

    April 13, 2013

    Duel

    November 20, 2014

    Alien Veins

    December 3, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    The Bodyguard

    April 13, 2014 /

    While she checks the map, somebody else cares about safety…

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    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law

    January 23, 2014

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021

    Inked

    February 12, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014 /

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    A priest

    October 19, 2019

    Back Home

    December 5, 2014

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016
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