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  • 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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    Access Denied

    June 1, 2015

    Pensive

    February 26, 2021

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Spring

    A Fountain

    May 17, 2014 /

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    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013

    The Sinking Giant

    December 6, 2013

    Hair Cut

    July 19, 2013
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Yes, We…Can

    May 16, 2014 /

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    Strategy

    September 20, 2018

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Becoming a Human Tripod

    January 9, 2017
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014 /

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    An Altar for the Propaganda Machine

    November 17, 2013

    Addicted to (Nintendo) Switch

    July 6, 2017

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014
  • 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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    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022

    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016
  • 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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    Life, the Universe and Everything

    July 28, 2013

    The Score Keeper

    April 25, 2019

    Not A Photography Anymore

    September 22, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013

    Carabinieri:To Serve And Protect

    February 8, 2016

    A Fisherman in Rome

    November 1, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    An Old School Workstation

    September 12, 2014

    An experiment with Dall-E, ChatGPT and a Nissan S8

    November 4, 2023

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

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    Three Lamposts

    June 11, 2022

    Lost in iPhone while the wind blows

    January 23, 2013

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015
  • 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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    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014

    A Skateboarder

    November 23, 2021

    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    The Gas Station Attendant

    November 11, 2013

    A Fountain’s Jet

    April 12, 2021

    A Lighthouse

    October 11, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    Another experiment with the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye. Using this lens in a less conventional way is really challenging for the composition. Keep trying.

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    Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles

    March 28, 2014

    Is Iron Sky just a sci-fi movie?

    May 5, 2015

    Daniele Silvestri – Teatri 2022 – Live@Teatro Massimo, Pescara

    December 16, 2022
  • 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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    Night Serenade

    September 12, 2013

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014

    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014 /

    When it comes to food, Italians aren’t short of reasons to sit and eat!

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    A Ferrari 812 GTS in Boston

    July 14, 2023

    On the Range

    December 6, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    This time I’ve enabled the lens correction feature so that the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye  horizon doesn’t looked curved.

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    Faces in the Façade: A Ghostly Smile in Stone

    November 15, 2014

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016
  • 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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    Still Ruling

    February 5, 2022

    Too Noisy

    May 24, 2013

    5 frames with the (much awaited) Ferrania P33, a Nikon F3 and a Nikkor 50 F2

    April 30, 2024
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014

    Strategy

    September 20, 2018

    Quis custodies

    January 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014 /

    Still experimenting with a 1973-made Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye.

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    The Silent Ceremony

    November 2, 2017

    Yes, We…Can

    May 16, 2014

    A Stop in Reggio Emilia

    February 21, 2024
  • 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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    The Seagull And The Sentinel

    October 27, 2014

    So long and thank you for the fish

    February 6, 2014

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 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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    Early Morning’s Cleanup

    July 21, 2013

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 2

    June 30, 2017
  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014 /

    Who cares about pickpockets?

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    ChitChat in a sunny day

    January 4, 2013

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014 /

    The Abundance’s Paradox

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    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020

    An Intense Conversation

    October 9, 2013

    Yet Another Tokyo Tower Nightshot

    July 27, 2017
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Spring,  Street Markets

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014 /

    The X-E1 is a good camera, though has some annoyances that make it less handy for Street Photography. Contrary to Leica, (some) Zeiss or (some) Nikon lenses, zone-focusing is not set on the lens barrel. You must do it either through the viewfinder or the LCD, and this makes problematic the switch from one technique to another. Same is true for aperture settings. Operating the camera one-handed, happened twice to me, led to a change of the image quality settings from RAW to Jpg. Unfortunately I wasn’t aware while shooting and I’ve wasted half a day in Barcelona getting inferior quality pictures.

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    LP – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella – The photogallery

    July 11, 2022

    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019

    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014 /

    They’re close, but never been so distant

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    Evolution of a Guitar Player

    July 5, 2013

    The Compelling Power of Photography

    September 22, 2022

    Learning to Shoot Boxing Matches

    July 18, 2024
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