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  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Spring

    Whatever You Stand For, Vote!

    May 24, 2014 /

    A large digital screen mounted on the exterior of a modern building, prominently announces the European Elections scheduled for 22–25 May 2014. The display uses a bright, cool-toned light that contrasts sharply with the dark perforated metal surface behind it, ensuring high visibility even in daylight. The message is framed within clean geometric lines, reinforcing the institutional clarity of the communication.

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    Life, the Universe and Everything

    July 28, 2013

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014

    Alien Veins

    December 3, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Summer

    Under an Old Roof

    May 22, 2014 /

    A scrap of newspaper clings to the surface of a wooden beam, yellowed by time, softened by dust. The print advertises used cars, once a promise of mobility and new beginnings, now only a faded record of another era. Above, the roof beams reveal gaps, through which light seeps, fractured and uncertain, illuminating what remains. The photograph works in layers: the brittle newsprint, the rough wood, the dim background of tiles and sky. Each element bears marks of age, but together they tell a quiet story of storage, neglect, and survival. It is less about the subject itself than about what it represents—the persistence of the ordinary beneath the erosion…

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    Zeiss ZM Biogon 35/2 and Nikon Z5. An Empirical Field Test

    January 12, 2026

    LP – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    July 22, 2022

    Is the next Kano Jigoro already on the mat?

    November 7, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Summer

    The Hamlet’s Dilemma

    May 20, 2014 /

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    The True Ironman

    March 4, 2015

    Max Casacci – Live@Circolo Aternino, Pescara

    January 4, 2018

    Nico Cilli Band@Chiostro Comunale – Città S.Angelo

    September 9, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  Visual

    Somewhere in Japan

    May 19, 2014 /

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    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014

    Same Space, Different Worlds

    October 18, 2013

    A (Soon) Lost Banner

    November 1, 2018
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Portrait of Keyboard Player

    May 18, 2014 /

    He had just finished a piece when I took the shot. Head tilted, hand still resting on the keys, that slight smirk not forced but earned. This wasn’t posed—it was a breath between moments, a performer halfway out of character and halfway into self-awareness. The ambient energy of the room still swirled around him—soft voices, chairs moving, blurred motion in the background—but he held still. I composed tight to emphasise the contrast between stillness and motion. The background drags slightly, figures abstracted by a slower shutter speed, but the face and fingers are crisp—anchoring the shot where it needs to be. The lighting was mixed: tungsten overhead, cooler light from…

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    Windows

    September 15, 2014

    Barbarians at the Gates

    September 21, 2013

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Spring

    A Fountain

    May 17, 2014 /

    I made this photograph in a small corner where a public fountain once served a purpose. Now it stands fenced in by corrugated metal sheeting, isolated, its basin removed, its function suspended. The graffiti—“un po’ di panna”—is not aggressive. It reads more like a private joke left in public space, a whisper rather than a shout. That small phrase is what drew my eye first. It adds a voice to an object that has otherwise been silenced. The metal barrier creates an accidental stage. Its vertical ridges repeat across the background, directing the gaze inward toward the fountain. The pink stone base, stained and unevenly worn, introduces texture and a…

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    An Early Landscape Photography Attempts

    December 21, 2012

    A London’s Skyline

    September 13, 2016

    National Security

    April 4, 2014
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Yes, We…Can

    May 16, 2014 /

    I took this photo because it stopped me mid-step. A banal object — a crushed Coca-Cola can — pierced on a historic stone spike, suspended in defiance or perhaps pure indifference. The tension between the industrial red cylinder and the worn, centuries-old limestone was too stark to ignore. The composition leaned heavily on perspective and focus. I shot wide open, letting the background melt into soft abstraction, just enough to hint at an ancient setting without overpowering the main subject. I tilted the frame slightly to echo the absurd balance of the can, breaking away from textbook horizontality to embrace the odd equilibrium of the scene. Exposure was critical. I…

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    Overexposed?

    March 14, 2013

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    November 26, 2020

    The Arson

    February 21, 2014
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014 /

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    Conversation

    September 14, 2017

    The Bell Ringer of Nikko

    August 6, 2018

    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  People,  Spring

    The New Church

    May 13, 2014 /

    In the XXIth Century, a new church grows, to satisfy old needs.

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    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Red Fan

    June 14, 2022

    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Travels

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014 /

    Airports are temples of waiting. They strip away the illusion of control, leaving travellers suspended in time between one place and another. In that in-between, people invent ways to cope. Here, in a lounge of muted reds and glassy daylight, a man folds himself into a private space. One leg drawn up, back curved, cap pulled low, he cradles a tablet as if it were a small book or a talisman. His fingers rest lightly on it, not tapping, not scrolling—just holding. The surrounding noise and movement dissolve in his stillness. This is meditation for the digital age. Not in a forest clearing or a candlelit room, but in an…

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    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    Portfolio

    February 24, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    The Leica M9 CCDgate Outrageous Case

    December 11, 2014

    Interplay

    December 22, 2016

    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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

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

    October 21, 2014

    Portrait of a Bailaor

    November 19, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

    Street photography often unfolds in fractions of a second that resist tidy interpretation. This frame emerged from one of those moments — brief, slightly absurd, and quietly revealing. The photograph shows three men crossing the same urban space yet seemingly inhabiting different psychological trajectories. The bald man in the foreground, dressed in a vivid orange jumper that stands out against the subdued tones of the pavement, appears momentarily detached from the flow of movement around him. His posture is firm, almost statuesque, as if he had paused mid-stride to reassess the scene. The shopping bag hanging from his hand becomes less an object of practical use than a compositional counterweight,…

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    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014

    Meaningless

    November 9, 2013

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Junior (or, Cognitive Dissonance – Part Two)

    December 12, 2025
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Spring

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014 /

    There is something odd in this photo, isnt’it?

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    The Seagull And The Sentinel

    October 27, 2014

    So long and thank you for the fish

    February 6, 2014

    The Elders’ Council

    June 29, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    Canon EOS-M. Useless for Street-Photography

    March 28, 2013

    Inside an Old Gym

    February 16, 2015

    Who Can It Be Now?

    February 18, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    this image hinges on simplicity and distortion. The sun was directly overhead, leaving the shadow of the pole as a near-perfect sundial, slicing the centre of the frame from bottom to vanishing point. That shadow was the whole reason to shoot: absolute verticality rendered into graphic contrast on a near-featureless plane. The lens dictates the structure. At 16mm, lines bow. The horizon curves. Perspective exaggerates. I leaned into it—there’s no attempt to correct distortion in post. The intention was not to imitate a rectilinear frame, but to emphasise space as abstraction. The beach becomes a sphere, the sky a ceiling, and the tiny trace of buildings at the perimeter only…

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    Hands of a Steward

    November 22, 2019

    Access Denied

    June 1, 2015

    When Faith Is Gone

    June 20, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014 /

    I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this line of turtles perched neatly along the log, each one angled just so to catch the warmth of the midday sun. It’s a scene that strips away the pop culture fantasy of katana-wielding reptiles and replaces it with something far more universal — the quiet pleasure of simply doing nothing. From a compositional standpoint, I did well to let the log form a natural leading line, drawing the viewer’s eye from the cluster on the left to the stragglers on the right. The surrounding foliage frames the scene nicely, adding depth and a touch of chaos to balance the orderly arrangement…

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    A Bridge

    September 22, 2019

    Intelligence Contest

    April 15, 2017

    All Mobiles But One Book

    June 24, 2017
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014 /

    I made this image at the end of a long lunch — the kind where conversation lingers long after the plates are cleared, and the table becomes less of a place to eat and more a canvas of what just happened. The residue of red wine had bled into the paper surface, leaving behind those familiar circular stains — not accidental, not staged, just there. And I leaned in, glass still in hand, and shot. Technically, this is an exercise in distortion and proximity. I used a wide lens, close focus, and a shallow depth of field. The resulting visual field is warped, but purposefully. You can see the sweep…

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    Italy, Street-Photography and The Law – A Real Case

    October 3, 2014

    A (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    Kneeling in the surf with the camera just above waterline, I framed this beached buoy like a stranded witness—half-devoured by barnacles, its functional past eroded by time and tide. The wave motion is deliberate: a slow shutter gave the water its painterly strokes, pulling the viewer toward the object with a sense of gentle urgency. The wide-angle perspective exaggerates scale and places the buoy in stark contrast with the horizon. The red-orange plastic punctures the cool blues of sea and sky, a sharp chromatic discord that anchors the entire composition. It’s an aggressive intrusion into the otherwise pastel calm of the shoreline, yet visually satisfying because of the balance created…

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    I Don’t Get It

    May 7, 2026

    Italian Track&Field Championship 2018 – The reportage

    September 12, 2018

    Ghosts of Ginza

    November 14, 2023
  • 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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    Portrait of a Waiter

    July 22, 2013

    The Hands of a Drummer (Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez)

    April 24, 2013

    The Changer — Glass Walls, Paper Smiles, and Currency Drained

    October 12, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014 /

    This image is the outcome of a technical test as much as it is a commentary on environment and perception. I wanted to see how the venerable 1973 Nikkor 16mm f/3.5 fisheye would behave on the full-frame sensor of a Nikon D700. The result is a picture pulled to its edges, both optically and metaphorically. What this lens gives in distortion, it returns in expressive tension. The beach curves like the edge of a planet. The sky presses down as if it’s wrapping itself around the scene. A single line of debris cuts through the frame, pulling the eye toward a loosely gathered group of people, whose presence feels both…

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    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013

    Helios 40-2 85/1,5 and Fuji X-T5: a sample

    June 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Bent

    April 21, 2014 /

    When I first lifted the camera to my eye for this shot, the Nikkor 16mm fisheye was not the lens you’d expect for such a pastoral, rolling landscape. Fisheyes, after all, are often the tools of cramped interiors, extreme sports, or deliberately surreal perspectives. Yet here, in the middle of vineyard country, I wanted to see what would happen if I let its inherent distortion play with the natural undulations of the hills. The result is a scene that feels almost elastic. The road on the right curves away more dramatically than it does in reality, while the vineyard rows tilt into an exaggerated arc, their geometry bending to the…

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    January 9, 2017

    Three Shots in Franco Summa’s Studio

    August 19, 2026

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014
  • 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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    March 2, 2021

    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013

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    August 12, 2019
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