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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Winter

    Portrait of a Law Professor (and Free Climber…)

    February 26, 2016 /

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    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014

    Square One

    June 17, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Winter

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016 /

    No bravado. No noise. Just focus. This is not a scene from a film. It’s a portrait of a gunsmith — hands steady, brow drawn in close. The room is small, functional, the shelves stacked. There’s no display of violence here. No suggestion of power. Only the patient act of tuning metal into balance. He’s wearing gloves, not out of fear, but out of respect — for the tool, for the work, for the ritual. The gun isn’t loaded. It isn’t posed. It’s an object in process. A mechanism being read, understood, maintained. I took this photo in near silence. The only sound was the faint click of a slide…

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    The Rise of the Mutant Spiders?

    November 4, 2013

    Roots On The Roof

    September 6, 2015

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016 /

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    The Unconvinced Listener

    June 25, 2014

    Three Lamps

    September 19, 2022

    Switch

    December 18, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Winter

    Who Can It Be Now?

    February 18, 2016 /

    The ubiquitous smartphone never let its owner (or slave?) free to enjoy a few time offline, not even during a concert …

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    Out of Gas

    August 8, 2013

    Staying Behind

    November 28, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Winter

    Staged?

    February 16, 2016 /

    This pictures portrays Max Gazzè 2016 tour’s official photographer asking the crowd to raise and wave the hands. Although the picture is staged (meaining: the photographer “created” the “moment” instead of waiting for it) the outcome is not, since is the result of the dialog between the photographer and the people.

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    A Shadow

    July 24, 2014

    Ten Years Ago

    December 22, 2022

    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Winter

    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016 /

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    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 12, 2018

    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013

    Nick Beggs

    July 12, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Visual,  Winter

    Inked

    February 12, 2016 /

    This is a real photo and not the result of a Photoshop filter. Reality always win against software emulation…

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    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013

    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013

    Not A Rorschach Inkblot

    December 24, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Rome,  Visual,  Winter

    Distraction

    February 10, 2016 /

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    Portrait of a Bailaor

    November 19, 2013

    A Few Shots with the 7Artisans 35mm f/0.95 in X-Mount

    October 24, 2024

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Carabinieri:To Serve And Protect

    February 8, 2016 /

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    A shot wasted by Iphone 7 plus poor low light performance

    January 22, 2019

    The Racers

    December 7, 2014

    DSLR-like…?

    March 21, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016 /

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    Where Did I Left My Car?

    April 2, 2015

    Trick or Treat?

    June 14, 2013

    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Winter

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016 /

    This photo is taken with an X-E2 coupled with a Zeiss Planar 50/1,5, manually focused. Although the visible purple shift in the face of the barman is still visible, it doesn’t change the quality of the colours rendition.

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Female Team – Laura Giombini, Giulia Toti

    October 17, 2015

    Another experiment, now with a Kodak Portra 400

    May 4, 2023

    Nice Drink

    July 11, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016 /

    I’ve shot this picture with a Fujifilm X-E2 and a Zeiss C Sonnar T* 1,5/50 ZM. The split-image manual focus confirmation worked properly (though with a strong light it’s more difficult to handle it) and the resulting file in term of size and quality is fairly satisfying. Enter the X-Pro2 with a bigger resolution and new RAW format. While a 24 Megapixel APS-C sensor creates file that can be handled by most of the computer currently in place, the new RAW format will require the latest Photoshop CC/Lightroom update. So, if you chose not to enter into the mud of a subscription-based software licensing model, all of a sudden you…

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    Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park

    June 6, 2018

    The Coffin

    December 12, 2015

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Winter

    Max Gazzè Tour 2016 Live @Pescara

    February 1, 2016 /

    For this reportage I’ve borrowed a Canon 5D Mk III coupled with a EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM and my Fuji X-E2 with the XF 18-55 f/2.8-4R LM OIS. Of course, I got no operational problems with the 5D (if you know how to overcome its limits) and the lens performed very good, but I must admit that I’ve been surprised by the quality of the X-E2 images, taken at ISO 3200. Does this means that is time to trash the Canon and go for a “Fuji-only” setup? I don’t think so, in particular if telephotos are a recurring presence in the jobs. True, now Fujifilm too has a…

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    A Puff of Smoke

    August 29, 2013

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013

    Rocco Zifarelli, Jeff Berlin, Beth&Danny Gottlieb, Gabriela Sinagra

    June 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    After a Tough Day

    January 30, 2016 /

    I  took this photo with a Fujifilm X-E2 and a Leica Elmarit 90/2,8. Manual focusing with the split-image option has been fairly easy.

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    Andrea Monti

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    Generations

    February 5, 2013

    Another experiment, now with a Kodak Portra 400

    May 4, 2023

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Gear,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Should I Buy It? (Best Taken With an 85mm)

    January 23, 2016 /

    …but actually with a 23mm (35mm equivalent, cropped.) It’s not just a shopping street. It’s a stage. Look closer: this frame holds a silent performance — a subtle interplay of desire, decision, and doubt. Three women stand just outside the warmth of the boutique, their eyes fixed on mannequins who, ironically, seem far more confident than the living observers. The mannequin inside strikes a bold pose, clad in red and certainty. The women outside? Bundled in coats, their body language somewhere between ambivalence and negotiation. On the far left, another kind of window. A glowing child’s fantasy, plastered with Disney’s “Frozen” — a reminder of simpler times, when wanting something…

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    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020

    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Photography,  Rome,  Street Photography,  Winter

    The Watchman (Street-Photography Shortcuts)

    January 21, 2016 /

    As every thing under the sun, Street-Photography too has its own shortcuts: freaky street-portraits are one of those. It’s easy to have your pictures noticed when your subject is a 60-years old Brit-Punk, an implausible-color dressed man or whatever alike: these subjects do the work on your behalf and it is very hard to obtain such kind of picture AND conveying actual meaning. Personally I like photos that – alone or made meaningful by a title – can tell a story. This way I can try to (pretend to) make “unique” shots, that stand with dignity in front of the zillions of 500px/Instagram/Flickr’s  great images that are often perfect but…

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    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    Barbarians At the Beach

    August 30, 2021

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    True Leather (Saved by Photoshop’s Crop)

    January 18, 2016 /

    A 35mm focal length is definitely much too wide for my kind of street-photography, but I must admit that the advantages of using a Fujifilm X100s in terms of efficiency and portability, beat any other issue related to the wideness of the lens. And the X100s’ resolution is good enough to obtain a good composition through Photoshop’s crop feature.

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    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015

    Hangmen

    May 21, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  People,  Rome,  Thoughts

    Fujifilm X-Pro 2: Does It Worth It? (Lost In Via Del Corso)

    January 16, 2016 /

    As a Fujifilm camera early adopter (during time I got the X-pro 1, X100, X100s, X-E1 and X-E2) I was waiting for the X-Pro 2 to come and when that finally happened I didn’t feel so compelled to trash my (now) old cameras to do the switch. Long gone are the days of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome),  so I shall not buy this new piece of electronics because it doesn’t do anything that I can’t do with my actual set up (in particular, with the X100s and the X-E2.) The only actual point of interest, to me, are the dual-slot card and the weather sealed body: but I never needed…

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    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016

    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014

    What Lasts After the Hangover

    April 27, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Last Puff Before the Ride

    December 26, 2015 /

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    Strategy

    September 20, 2018

    Spumante (Italian Champagne) ready to fuel the party

    May 29, 2013

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Busy

    December 24, 2015 /

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    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018

    Hard Spam

    April 1, 2013

    (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015 /

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    To Do or To Own? (or the Photographer’s Dilemma)

    March 2, 2025

    Portrait of a Fin Swimmer

    June 5, 2021

    A Fence

    November 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares

    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015 /

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    Cold Stuff

    November 28, 2015

    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020

    5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)

    February 22, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    The Coffin

    December 12, 2015 /

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    The Actor’s Nightmare

    August 3, 2013

    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 2014

    One Shot Story: (Un)Available Coin Lockers at Shin Osaka Station

    December 22, 2024
  • Colour,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

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

    December 8, 2015 /

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    May 23, 2015

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    July 7, 2019

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