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  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  People,  Summer

    A Dragon Trainer?

    July 8, 2014 /

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    Deadly Bored

    January 6, 2020

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    The Unintended March

    January 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Travels

    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014 /

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013

    A ghostly bystander

    September 21, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Social Control,  Summer

    Line Of Fire

    July 6, 2014 /

    This image was taken inside a shooting range, but I wasn’t there to document firearms. I was drawn to geometry, symmetry, and control. What struck me was the sheer order of the space. Every line — from the foam cladding to the shooting lanes — channels the viewer’s gaze forward. You don’t look at this picture. You’re funnelled through it. Technically, the space presented a challenge: low, mixed lighting and reflective surfaces. I shot handheld, wide open, leaning into the natural light spread to keep shadows soft and detail intact. The overhead panels, designed for acoustic insulation, created an unusual texture that became an integral compositional element. The ceiling almost…

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    Al Di Meola, Peo Alfonsi, Sergio Martinez – Live @ Teatro della Villa Comunale – Roseto degli Abruzzi

    July 30, 2025

    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013

    The New Church

    May 13, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Summer

    Mind The Gap!

    July 5, 2014 /

    I made this photograph standing almost flush with the wall, pointing the lens straight up into the thin slice of sky framed by stone and metal. The subject is not the building itself but the uneasy conversation between its decaying ornamentation and the open void above. The fractured balcony edges lean toward each other without touching, creating a tension in the composition that pulls the viewer’s eye toward the bright gap. From a compositional standpoint, the choice of perspective is both a strength and a limitation. The severe upward angle forces strong converging lines, which add a sense of depth and slight unease. However, the proximity of the elements means…

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    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023

    The Flying Dutchman… a sort of

    March 19, 2017

    Bicycle

    February 2, 2015
  • Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  New York,  Spring

    Arriba El Mexico!

    July 3, 2014 /

    I took this photograph from the passenger seat of a cab, during that suspended moment when traffic stalls and the city becomes a collage of reflections and colour. The small felt figure hanging from the mirror caught my attention first—bright, slightly absurd, and placed without irony. The tiny sombrero, the stitched flag, the green felt body: a souvenir turned mascot, living in the blurred space between décor and identity. What interested me was how this small object commanded the frame. The background—city lights, signage, fragments of buildings—exists only as colour fields and soft shapes. The mirror picks up hints of the driver, the interior, and the street behind us, but…

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    Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

    November 19, 2024

    Silhouettes@Osaka Castle

    June 12, 2018

    Branches On The Wall

    December 10, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014 /

    The small sparrow resting on the green stalk caught my attention not because it was rare, exotic, or particularly dramatic, but because it was simply there. A fleeting pause in the ordinary rhythm of the day. The late afternoon light wrapped both bird and plants in a warm, almost golden atmosphere, softening the edges and bringing out the textures of the leaves and flowers. From a technical standpoint, the composition is clean yet unforced. The sparrow is positioned off-centre, allowing the surrounding vegetation to balance the frame. The diagonals created by the leaves and the blurred background help guide the eye naturally towards the bird without resorting to obvious tricks.…

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    An Old Lady in Great Shape

    September 23, 2014

    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015

    Ready for lunch

    September 2, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Just A Cat

    June 29, 2014 /

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    Footprints

    March 27, 2021

    National Road Running Championships 2023 – Portraits

    June 28, 2024

    An Intense Conversation

    October 9, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014 /

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    The sentinel…

    March 8, 2013

    A Fishnet – 2

    October 29, 2014

    The Watchman (Street-Photography Shortcuts)

    January 21, 2016
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014 /

    You can smell it before you hear it — the warm hum of beer, laughter, breath crystallising in the cold. This photo, taken in the backstreets of Brussels, isn’t a postcard of nightlife. It’s a sketch. Loose, fast, half in shadow. Which makes it all the more true. Cafés and pubs stack signs on top of each other like citations — Delirium, Floris Bar, Café, Pub, Garden. Every name lit, every door half-open, promising exactly what you need at this hour. But the terrace tables are empty, stacked in rows like punctuation marks between stories. It’s too cold to sit. Too late to be still. The people gather where the…

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    Who Can It Be Now?

    February 18, 2016

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013

    Trento, After Dark

    June 23, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014 /

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    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013

    Via Collina, Empty, From Above

    September 13, 2014

    The Rise of the Mutant Spiders?

    November 4, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Unconvinced Listener

    June 25, 2014 /

    This was one of those shots where the scene composed itself. I didn’t need to move much—just recognise and release the shutter. What drew me in was the geometry of the interaction: a makeshift stage, oversaturated lighting washing the performers in synthetic blue, and in the foreground, a single man caught mid-gesture, possibly clapping, possibly holding a phone, or perhaps neither—his posture uncertain and unaligned with the music unfolding metres ahead. The band, framed neatly under the overhang of a modern tram stop, seems to exist in its own world, driven by rhythm, sequins, and stage light bravado. They’re working hard. But the man in the foreground? He’s not buying…

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    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014

    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013

    Posing at Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

    October 1, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Spring

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014 /

    Shot on a Leica M9 with a Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2.8, this image is more about suspension than action. The frame holds a waiting posture — literally and metaphorically. No speeches, no slogans, just the inertia of democratic process taking over the political machinery. I wanted to convey stillness without silence. The Biogon’s rendering gave me that microcontrast and edge clarity I rely on when details matter more than gestures. The M9 sensor — as unpredictable as it can be in mixed light — held together the tonal values well here, especially in the midtones. Shadow detail was secondary; this wasn’t about hiding or revealing, but about the unresolved pause…

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    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013

    Bikers

    July 14, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring,  Street Markets

    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014 /

    It doesn’t take much to make your day happy.

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    二千円

    December 20, 2023

    @Rome Maker Faire – 3. Stare Of The Mechanical Man

    October 13, 2014

    Inside a Lost Building

    February 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    Niccolò Fabi – Meno Per Meno Tour 2023 – Live@Teatro Massimo, Pescara

    May 7, 2023

    No Tablet, No Problem

    April 12, 2013

    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017
  • 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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    A Sailor’s Knot

    November 22, 2013

    Small Talk

    February 10, 2014

    Windows

    September 15, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014 /

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    A Step Ahead

    October 8, 2022

    The Watchdogs

    February 9, 2017

    A Bad Experiment

    August 26, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    The Lost Lock

    June 12, 2014 /

    The photograph is focused on the weathered surface of a wooden door, its grain worn deep by time and use. At the centre sits a latch, secured by a small brass pin, surrounded by the scars of previous fittings. Above it, oversized keyholes mark the door’s history of repairs and replacements, each shadow stretching long across the wood in the midday light. Technically, the image is about texture and shadow. The exposure favours the roughness of the timber, rendering every fissure and nail hole in sharp detail. The sunlight is strong, but instead of washing out the surface, it enhances contrast, pulling the metallic coldness of the lock against the…

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    Even Venice Is Powerless Against A Smartphone

    April 21, 2026

    Wrecked Ship

    November 23, 2013

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  People,  Spring

    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014 /

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    Friend or Foe?

    January 21, 2013

    Sergey Krylov live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022

    Even

    July 9, 2016
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Social Control,  Spring

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014 /

    Should you have some doubt, by reading the banner you can’t be mistaken. Clarity can be a virtue, even when it delivers its message with the blunt weight of inevitability. Here, a simple blue sign announces the location of the mortuary—not just once, but three times, in three languages. French, Latin, English. No ambiguity, no chance of misunderstanding. Just in case. The composition frames the sign against the muted greys of the surrounding architecture, a deliberate choice to strip away distractions. The words stand out, rendered in stark, functional typography, their neutrality belying the emotional weight of the place they indicate. Photography thrives on layers of meaning, and here the…

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    Relentless – A One Shot Story

    November 27, 2025

    Accidental Precision

    February 12, 2016

    Skating on the streets of Milan

    October 4, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Ni État Ni Patron

    June 8, 2014 /

    Brussels. A quiet wall, a passing car, and a message that’s louder than both. The slogan is old—older than the paint used to scrawl it—Ni État Ni Patron. No state, no boss. A phrase that echoes from factories, barricades, pamphlets. And now, here it is again, on a half-covered stretch of rendered concrete. It wasn’t written to decorate. It was written to remain. The graffiti stands out not just for what it says, but for where it says it: in the middle of a freshly patched rectangle, painted over what was clearly another message before it. The wall becomes a palimpsest—layers of resistance, erasure, and return. Below it, a car…

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    Legal Apartheid

    March 25, 2015

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

    October 17, 2015

    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013
  • B&W,  Bookstores,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014 /

    Blessed be the city, where somebody can earn his day, by selling poetry.

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    Parallels & Diagonals

    December 21, 2012

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014

    Justice Under Construction

    March 31, 2015
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Gates&Fences,  Past&Relics,  Social Control

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014 /

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    A few test shots with an MC Cosinon T200/4

    January 14, 2024

    Taking-Off

    April 15, 2021

    The Kiev 60 and a fix for the frame spacing issue

    October 8, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014 /

    The subject here is as straightforward as it gets: a wall, framed by rusted metal edges, and a hole clean enough to suggest sudden, concentrated force. The image works because it refuses embellishment — no dramatic angles, no post-production theatrics, just a direct record of an event’s aftermath. Compositionally, the vertical framing contains the scene like a display case, while the rust on either side breaks the monotony of the pale plaster. The crack lines radiating from the impact point add an organic texture, guiding the viewer’s eye back to the centre. The absence of any human figure allows the imagination to dwell on cause and consequence. From a technical…

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    A Cello’s Player

    February 8, 2015

    A (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018

    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Paris,  Spring

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014 /

    Two barges, TEMPO and VESTA, lashed together as if bound by some unspoken pact, making their way up the Seine. Seen from above, their pairing creates a symmetry that is almost architectural. The way their bows slice the water in unison feels more like choreography than navigation. The shot was taken from a bridge, directly aligned with their approach, which allowed me to keep both vessels centred and parallel in the frame. That alignment is crucial — a slight offset would have made the composition feel off-balance. Here, the geometry holds everything together: two hulls, two decks, two names, and a doubling of anchor motifs. The light was soft but…

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    Chasing the Runner

    October 6, 2013

    The Empty Stage

    November 25, 2013

    Urgent Calls Only

    May 15, 2017
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