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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022 /

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    Reminiscenses From The Past

    September 7, 2013

    Humannequin

    January 10, 2013

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    So Long, and Thank You for the Fish

    January 26, 2022 /

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    Balilla

    July 17, 2015

    Unattainable 1:1 magnification with the JJC FDA S-1 and Micro Nikkor 60 2,8

    January 29, 2023

    A Two-Masted Schooner

    October 25, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022 /

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    Walking at Night, in Milan

    September 30, 2013

    Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

    November 19, 2024

    Processing a DSLR Digitised Black and White Film with Affinity Photo

    January 24, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Winter

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021 /

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    Where do the skilifts are supposed to be?

    January 7, 2017

    Selling Italian Ice in Boston

    March 11, 2025

    Red Cross

    October 26, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Lines,  People,  Winter

    A Skateboarder

    November 23, 2021 /

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    The cameraman

    July 17, 2013

    A useless photo

    July 23, 2013

    Elishéva live@Faneuil Hall

    July 8, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021 /

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    Distraction

    April 6, 2016

    Should I Seat?

    December 15, 2021

    Traffic Master

    December 19, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People

    Soldering

    November 8, 2021 /

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    An Essay in Composition

    October 11, 2017

    Is AI-generated art actually killing ‘real’ Art?

    September 16, 2022

    Stand-up, Sugar!

    March 8, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fast Roping

    October 21, 2021 /

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    Out-of-Focus

    September 24, 2013

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013

    The Observer

    November 30, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Forza Italia

    July 12, 2021 /

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    A Fashion Shop in Milan

    January 21, 2014

    Light Dance in Hamburg

    April 6, 2018

    The Spinners

    June 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Swimming (Fin)

    Portrait of a Fin Swimmer

    June 5, 2021 /

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    The Photo I Didn’t Shoot

    June 8, 2013

    Floating

    February 5, 2023

    All Mobiles But One Book

    June 24, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  People,  Technique

    Using a 1960 Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 on a Fuji X-T3

    April 5, 2021 /

    In short The Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 works flawlessly on a Fujifilm X-T3, also with third-party adapters having no electronic connection with the camera. It provides excellent results, notwithstanding its age. Using this lens for street photography requires using focus-peaking or zone focus. In this latter case, proper training is necessary to correctly assess the distance from the subject. Image quality On the X-T3 the lens preserves its unique identity. Its colour rendering gives pictures a distinctive ‘retro’ character. The Elmarit shows an excellent resolving power: thin lines are visible and well defined. Chromatic aberration is visible at F2,8. It disappears from F4 and ahead. Anyway, the lens profile is well…

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    The Boared Bassman

    March 16, 2013

    A Moment Of Rest

    June 17, 2013

    Serva padrona @ Teatro Marrucino

    October 1, 2023
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Winter

    Deserved Rest

    March 21, 2021 /

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    Strolling in Stockholm

    July 4, 2016

    Boats

    September 18, 2021

    Freeze!

    December 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Skating,  Winter

    A Street-Skater

    March 17, 2021 /

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    When Venus meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023

    Weight Training @ Rome’s Stadio Olimpico

    October 9, 2018

    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People

    Zombie

    March 4, 2021 /

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    How Privacy Hysteria Killed Street-Photography

    October 22, 2023

    Stylemaster

    August 22, 2014

    The Nightmare

    August 23, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Uninterest

    March 2, 2021 /

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    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014

    Shrinking Knowledge

    July 24, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Pensive

    February 26, 2021 /

    Manual focus needs practice. This photo would have been better if I framed also the top of the cabin and focused better the person.

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    @Rome Maker Faire – 5. Pensive

    October 18, 2014

    Forgotten

    October 15, 2013

    Halt!

    December 28, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Technique,  Winter

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021 /

    Framing the whole statue would have made this photo better. The mistake was caused by the necessity to shoot fast, the lens’ field of view and the distance between the subject and the focal plane.

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    Portfolio

    February 24, 2014

    Still together

    April 20, 2013

    A quiet watchdog?

    May 23, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Busker and Covid-19

    January 26, 2021 /

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    Breakfast at Rue Brisemiche

    March 25, 2014

    She Died Alone

    February 15, 2022

    What lasts of a springtime hailstorm

    June 22, 2013
  • Actors,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Gear,  PhotoCritics,  Portraits,  Technique,  Winter

    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020 /

    This picture might look “ordinary” but for the fact that I shot it with a rangefinder film camera (guess which?) during the scene change between to acts of a theatre play. Scene assistants were placing the furnitures, actors were trying to focus on their parts, there was no time (and place) to design a proper composition and set the camera. No autofocus, no real-time exposure and white-balance setting. Maybe I have been lucky capturing the match flame close to the cigar, maybe it was because of “muscle memory”, but I did it nonetheless. Problem is that I could not be sure if I succeeded until, one week later, I saw…

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    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019

    Silver Pottery

    November 4, 2014

    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022
  • Actors,  Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Winter

    Il barbiere di Siviglia – Don Bartolo mad at Rosina

    November 28, 2020 /

    A shot from the mise en scene of the Il Barbiere di Siviglia I did as a scene-photgrapher for the Teatro Marrucino

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    Iphone 15 Billboard in Via XX Settembre

    February 14, 2024

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014

    Settled in the wrong place

    January 11, 2017
  • Actors,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics

    Meaning in Photography

    March 4, 2020 /

    In this picture, taken during the reportage I did for the Teatro Marrucino’s I Miserabili, an old and exhausted fighter rests while a young citoyen waves the French flag defying the fire of the royalists. The strength of the picture is in the dialectics created by the two protagonists, hinting at a “relay” between an old man that “gave all”, resting while a young man steps in.

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    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014

    The El Prat’s Lounge

    June 5, 2014

    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Reportage,  Winter

    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020 /

    Sometimes a picture acquires a meaning that goes beyond the original intent of the photographer. In this case, taken from a reportage I did for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables featured at Teatro Marrrucino, in Chieti, the photography becomes the archetype of the denegata Justitia. The defendant asks to speak, the justice stares elsewhere.

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    Helping the Elders

    July 10, 2019

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

    The Lost Battle

    January 11, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Technique,  Winter

    Breaking the Fourth Wall

    February 17, 2020 /

    Shooting a play is challenging because you must be ready to seize ‘the moment’ and, at the very same time, think of unusual compositions to avoid the boring ‘frontal’ perspective. Shooting part of the reportage from the backstage of Hamlet, with Giorgio Pasotti and Mariangela D’Abbraccio directed by Francesco Tavassi I had the possibility to experiment the breaking of the fourth wall. This picture is one of the results.

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    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Off Duty

    September 4, 2015

    Another experiment, now with a Kodak Portra 400

    May 4, 2023
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  PhotoCritics,  Technique

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020 /

    This photo I took during a reportage for a theatre hosting a concert of Uto Ughi shows a counter-intuitive use of focusing. Rather than go for the obvious option, the attention is shifted on the two musicians in the background capturing their concentration, with the leading violin blurred and conceptually, thus, ‘left behind’. The global effect is reinforced by a neat separation between the dark and light parts of the frame.

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    Lifeguard

    August 24, 2013

    Fireworks

    January 19, 2013

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017
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