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  • Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Reminiscenses From The Past

    September 7, 2013 /

    Lost in memories, while the world turns.

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    A quiet watchdog?

    May 23, 2013

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

    The Suit

    July 15, 2013
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    The Casual Observer

    September 5, 2013 /

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    Portraits in Skating

    November 30, 2024

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

    February 22, 2025

    A Sound Engineer

    March 10, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Summer,  Urban Landscape

    Peeping the Misery

    September 4, 2013 /

    A rough opening in a white wall becomes the frame. The edges are jagged, still bearing the scars of whatever blow created them. Through it, the eye is led into another world—a dusty, abandoned space where sunlight slices across the ground. On the floor lies a tangle of debris: fragments of cloth, splinters, and what seems to be a torn banner, its once-bright colours now dulled. The text on it is broken, unreadable, a language interrupted. In the background, shapes blur into shadow—remnants of furniture, perhaps, or the skeletal remains of another wall. This photograph is about looking in without stepping in. The viewer is held at a distance, forced…

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    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    Early Morning’s Cleanup

    July 21, 2013

    Skull of Glass at the London Science Museum

    September 26, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    While Waiting for the Food

    September 3, 2013 /

    Somewhere coastal, sometime after sundown. The table is set, the drinks half gone, the plates not yet full. It’s the in-between moment—the pause before the meal arrives, when conversation either deepens or disappears. He’s on his phone, thumb scrolling with purpose, eyes locked to the glow. Around him, the restaurant hums: plastic chairs, thatched roof, barefoot kids running between tables, the usual clatter of dishes and casual voices. A holiday place, probably. Warm air, sea salt, and time meant to be slower. What struck me was not the act—because it’s common—but the woman across from him. Half-hidden, partly blurred, yet watching. Not annoyed, not angry. Just watching. The kind of…

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    Landscape

    December 21, 2012

    Are you Sure?

    July 9, 2015

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati (and a primer on sport photography, part 6)

    October 13, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013 /

    Another hard night at the door is going to start.

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    The Modern Preacher

    November 14, 2016

    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013

    A Sailor

    July 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013 /

    Sometimes, two subjects share a conversation without exchanging a word. In this case, the dialogue exists between man and stone — between the jogger, resting mid-route, and the towering marble column in front of him. The stillness of the sculpture contrasts with his barely contained energy, as though the pause is only temporary before motion resumes. The composition is anchored by geometry. The bollards form a rhythm across the foreground, pulling the eye toward the seated figure. The column rises almost dead-centre in the frame, lending a sense of vertical authority, while the urban backdrop — palms, apartments, the waiting truck — situates the scene in the ordinary present, far…

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    Staring At The Infinite (While Waiting For The Fishes)

    August 1, 2014

    Servicing a Beretta 98FS

    October 13, 2019

    An Old Lady in Great Shape

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

    Sleep Wins

    August 30, 2013 /

    I found them in that fragile hour when night hasn’t fully given up and the day hasn’t quite claimed the streets. Two bodies slumped against a shuttered shopfront, graffiti curling behind them like a silent narrator. They weren’t staged, of course — this was simply where exhaustion decided to settle. With the Canon EOS-M paired to the EF-M 18–55, I had the flexibility to frame them in a way that gave space for the scene to breathe. The late light worked in my favour, sliding in at an angle that brought warmth to their skin tones while pulling texture from the cold metal behind them. The graffiti, soft enough not…

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    Framed

    November 26, 2015

    Not AI-made…

    September 17, 2022

    Safe Living (?)

    July 28, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013 /

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    How to Shoot Stand-up Paddle Competitions

    April 29, 2024

    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

    September 28, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013 /

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    Why a Longterm Relationship (with your camera) Makes You Feel Good

    March 26, 2025

    Three of a Kind

    July 6, 2013

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013 /

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    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    Somewhere in Japan

    May 19, 2014

    Is the next Kano Jigoro already on the mat?

    November 7, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Pillars Of The Beach

    August 25, 2013 /

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    A Lighthouse

    October 11, 2023

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

    December 14, 2014

    Carl Zeiss T* 50 1,5 Sonnar and EOS EF-M 18-55

    August 4, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Lifeguard

    August 24, 2013 /

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    Quis custodies

    January 26, 2013

    Ashtray

    February 12, 2017

    Friend or Foe?

    January 21, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Staring At The Infinite

    August 22, 2013 /

    Will this love lasts as much?

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    Off Duty

    September 4, 2015

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021

    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013 /

    On Saturday night, ghosts too dress themselves up.

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    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013

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

    October 17, 2015

    Empty Chairs in the Tuileries

    October 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    Saturday Night’s Ice Cream

    August 19, 2013 /

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    Floating

    October 7, 2023

    Venditti&DeGregori – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    August 11, 2022

    Batklubben

    July 23, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People,  Summer

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013 /

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    Chef

    March 6, 2013

    Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

    July 24, 2025

    At the theater, between two scenes

    June 15, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013 /

    Anything, Anywhere…

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    Full Moon

    September 30, 2018

    Lady Gaga Art Rave

    October 5, 2014

    A Grocery Store

    November 5, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013 /

    It was the contrast that caught my eye. A man stands knee-deep in the Adriatic shallows, focused, precise, moving a small blue net through the water like he’s brushing dust off glass. He’s working under the shadow of a trabocco—a towering wooden fishing machine, all cables and beams, designed to drop massive nets and haul in fish by the hundreds. The kind of structure that speaks of industry, tradition, scale. But here he is. Alone. Shirtless. Waist-deep. Fishing by hand. The second frame pulls back. You see it all—the full span of the trabocco, its arms stretched wide like a maritime cathedral. And at the base, dwarfed by design, the same man…

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    Street Compass Rose

    September 25, 2013

    Vinyl Never Dies

    September 2, 2013

    Quis custodies

    January 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    The Sentinel

    August 13, 2013 /

    Though guys never rest.

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    Who’s carrying Who?

    February 28, 2013

    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015

    Get Ready for The Duty

    July 13, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Uncertainity

    August 11, 2013 /

    Photographs taken in urban dockside environments often carry a layered narrative—of industry meeting leisure, of movement paused, of a city’s arteries stretching both above and below the waterline. This image, with its juxtaposition of a small, worn boat in the foreground and the sweeping, multi-tiered bridges beyond, encapsulates that tension between the static and the dynamic. From a compositional perspective, the wooden railing in the foreground frames the lower half of the image, anchoring the scene and guiding the viewer’s gaze towards the boats. The man standing by the rail, casual in stance and attire, adds a human scale that balances the massive concrete structures above. His positioning—turned slightly away…

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    Pouring Water Since About 300 Years

    December 23, 2014

    Distraction

    February 10, 2016

    Ugo Pagliai – Romeo e Giulietta@Teatro Marrucino

    March 29, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Summer

    The Sprint Before the Ride

    August 8, 2013 /

    I caught this frame in a fleeting, almost comic moment: a man mid-stride, pushing his bike rather than riding it, as if caught in the space between two intentions. It’s not quite cycling, not quite running — a transitional gesture that tells a story of motion, effort, and perhaps urgency. The shot was taken low and close, which immediately exaggerates the presence of the subject and the bicycle. That choice, whether conscious or instinctive, works well here; it places the viewer almost on the ground, in the thick of the action, where the geometry of the paving stones converges towards the vanishing point in the distance. Technically, it’s not a…

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    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022

    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 3 – Ilford HP5 400 – Dec. 2010 shot in August 2023

    August 30, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Smile!

    August 7, 2013 /

    Smile! It’s contagious!

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    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021

    Rush Hours

    March 10, 2014

    Multitasking

    February 10, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013 /

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    Luck is an Attitude

    January 25, 2014

    A Blue Vespa

    November 3, 2014

    After a Tough Day

    January 30, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Fashion Shops,  Rome,  Summer

    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013 /

    Walking through Rome, it’s always the unexpected juxtapositions that stop me in my tracks. This small corner, framed by a weathered marble wall on one side and the muted sheen of a modern doorway on the other, holds a Thai welcome — a statue draped in marigold garlands, hands pressed together in the wai greeting, a silent gesture of hospitality transplanted far from its native home. From a compositional standpoint, I went for a straightforward, vertical framing to preserve the integrity of the statue’s posture. The side table in the lower right, with its offering of flowers and folded leaf packages, gives a cultural context that anchors the image. The…

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    5 Frames from our Tragic Past Shot with an iPhone 14 Pro Max

    April 4, 2025

    Enough…

    March 2, 2013

    Close up of a chessboard

    September 1, 2018
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