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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Scarf’s Meeting

    March 5, 2014 /

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    For Sale

    May 5, 2014

    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014

    The Watchdogs

    February 9, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Rome,  Winter

    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014 /

    This photograph came from an unplanned encounter while wandering through the corridors of a fading building in via del Governo Vecchio — the sort of place where time has done more than simply pass; it has settled in, quietly shaping every surface. The pane of glass here isn’t modern, nor mass-produced. Its circular impressions are the handiwork of an 18th-century glassmaker, each bubble imperfect, each one carrying the slight distortion of a craft long past. The Leica M9, with its full-frame CCD sensor, brought something special to the scene. That sensor has a way of rendering colour and micro-contrast that feels almost film-like, which was ideal for this subject. The…

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    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014

    Conversation

    September 14, 2017

    Hanging

    January 19, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  Rome,  Winter

    An Inside Irongate

    February 26, 2014 /

    Inside and old building, in the heart of Rome.

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    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022

    Life And Work On A Fishing Boat

    January 9, 2014

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garages&Labs,  People,  Portraits,  Rome,  Winter

    The Angel Maker

    February 25, 2014 /

    There are some things you only find in Rome. Down a narrow street behind the Teatro di Pompeo, inside a studio that smells of dust, turpentine and time, I watched a man restoring angels. Not metaphorically—literally. Plaster cherubs laid out across the table, grey with primer, one mid-stroke under his steady brush. The place looked more like a reliquary than a workshop. And in a way, it was. He’s a master restorer. The kind of figure you expect in an old Fellini film, surrounded by faded tapestries, cracked frames, and gold leaf so fine it breathes when you exhale near it. But this wasn’t a scene. This was a day’s…

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    @ Mediterrean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Soccer Team (and a primer on sport-photography, part 4)

    October 3, 2015

    Street Crossing

    September 17, 2014

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Photography,  Winter

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law – Part Two

    February 23, 2014 /

    In a previous post I addressed some of the legal issues involved in Landscape Photography where copyright was willfully not mentioned: since copyright is an outcome of human creativity who might ever think of imposing it over a landscape? Well, as much as it sounds crazy, somebody did it: on 2o11 the Town of San Quirico d’Orcia, in Tuscany, passed a local regulation that copyrights landscape images and artistic, cultural, environmental and architectural “stuff”, making mandatory pro shooter to ask for an authorization before starting their sessions. This local regulation is simply illegal, because “copyright” implies an act of creativity, while the landscape in itself doesn’t (unless you believe in…

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    Careful With That Bike, Eugene!

    July 29, 2013

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014

    Love is like a flower

    May 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    A Zen Garden?

    February 22, 2014 /

    Not very, actually…

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    Seeking Directions – Where Do I Go From Here?

    September 10, 2013

    Branches On The Wall

    December 10, 2014

    Portrait of a Wrestler

    October 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    The Arson

    February 21, 2014 /

    The wind had carried the scent long before I arrived—burnt resin, iron oxide, the telltale acridity of ash cooling under morning sun. What was once structure and story was now a cinder pile, framed awkwardly by two still-standing beams like broken arms. I didn’t need to ask what happened. I just raised the camera. This photograph leans into disorder. The eye stumbles across charred planks, twisted metal, and a scorched panel half-folded in retreat. It’s not elegant, and I didn’t want it to be. The strength of the frame lies in its refusal to sanitise. Destruction is inherently chaotic; presenting it neatly would be a betrayal of what it is.…

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    The Aperitif

    October 5, 2017

    The Wild Bunch

    October 1, 2013

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Hanging Clothes Waiting to Dry

    February 18, 2014 /

    I made this photograph on a terrace overlooking the valley, where the most ordinary of domestic acts — laundry drying in the sun — becomes unexpectedly theatrical. The line of garments stretches across the frame, their irregular shapes and colours set against the vast blue expanse of the background. The rural landscape below, softened by distance and haze, contrasts with the immediacy of cotton, wool, and synthetic fabric caught in the breeze. From a technical standpoint, the image is driven by colour and contrast. The saturation is high, which intensifies the reds, purples, and greens of the clothing and the terracotta of the terrace. Against the cool, almost painterly tones…

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    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 2014

    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    A Red Floating Crate

    February 15, 2014 /

    This was one of those photographs that almost didn’t happen. I walked past the red pot twice before realising what caught my eye wasn’t just its colour, but its suspension—hanging alone against a heavy, over-textured wall, oddly weightless. It looked like it shouldn’t be there. It looked like it shouldn’t stay. The light was low and indirect, which helped. A stronger contrast would’ve killed the subtlety of the textures. Instead, the stone’s relief held together—old, porous, grimy—but still distinct. The soft light allowed the red to vibrate just enough to isolate it from the grey-brown backdrop without turning it into a gimmick. Framing was tight. I didn’t want to include…

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    The Casual Observer

    September 5, 2013

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014

    Generations – I

    August 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Visual,  Winter

    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014 /

    There’s something oddly compelling about the scars of a boat out of the water. Without the softening shimmer of the sea, the hull stands exposed — every scratch, blister, and patch telling a story of its time afloat. When I came across this one, propped up on its stand, the colours struck me first: the chalky off-white giving way to the battered turquoise, with angry flashes of red oxide bleeding through like old wounds reopening. I framed it tight, keeping the top and bottom of the hull cropped to remove any distraction from the shapes and textures. The horizontal divide of colour became my anchor, with the wooden prop jutting…

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

    April 24, 2023

    A Fountain’s Jet

    April 12, 2021

    DSLR film scanning: episode three

    January 24, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    A Relaxed Call

    February 12, 2014 /

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    A Fishnet – 2

    October 29, 2014

    Boat Dock Bumpers

    October 26, 2014

    Bored

    March 7, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    The Fisherman’s Knots

    February 11, 2014 /

    In an age of automation, efficiency, and scale, this image restores dignity to the gesture of the hand. The photograph captures a fisherman absorbed in the ancient ritual of mending his net—a task as old as seafaring itself. His fingers, calloused and sure, draw thread through mesh with the concentration of a craftsman rather than a labourer. There is no sea in sight, only scaffolding, plastic tape, and the anonymous infrastructure of a modern dock. Yet this contrast only strengthens the narrative: amid industrial noise, a human persists in doing things slowly, correctly, traditionally. The net becomes more than a tool—it is sustenance, memory, continuity. Every knot ties past to…

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    Square One

    June 17, 2014

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law

    January 23, 2014

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

    March 2, 2025
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014 /

    Hopefully, he shouldn’t fall on the ground…

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    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014

    Nature gets its space back…

    November 7, 2018

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Just a soccer field… Part 3

    February 5, 2014 /

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    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024

    Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

    March 3, 2024

    Rush Hours

    March 10, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Reportage,  Social Control,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014 /

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    People

    December 21, 2012

    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    Three Tires

    May 18, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Reportage,  Social Control,  Winter

    Just a Soccer Field… Part 1

    February 3, 2014 /

    Just a soccer field… the only place where freedom lasts, but just for the time of a match.

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    A Fountain’s Jet

    April 12, 2021

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Visual,  Winter

    In-Eye

    February 2, 2014 /

    Photography has a curious way of leading the mind into patterns — an instinctive search for meaning, even when none exists. We are hardwired to interpret shapes and juxtapositions, to anthropomorphise objects, to find faces in clouds and stories in shadows. This image is one such case: a seemingly simple shot of a ship seen through a weathered window, yet the geometry conspires to suggest something far more figurative. Here, the diamond-shaped porthole becomes an eyelid, its corroded frame the brow, and beyond it, the bow of the ship forms an unmistakable iris and pupil. It’s a quiet trick of composition — one I noticed only after the fact —…

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    Lost in Le Puglie

    December 2, 2015

    Portrait of a Waiter

    July 22, 2013

    Inside The Clocktower

    August 22, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Winter

    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014 /

    … bad execution. The shot would have been acceptable if the head of the fisherman had the sky as a background instead of the bow.

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    Lost

    July 13, 2015

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014

    A Few More Shots From An Urban Exploration Trip

    September 20, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    Against the Tide

    January 30, 2014 /

    There’s a stillness in this frame that caught me before I even thought about the technical side. A lone figure on a bicycle, paused at the edge of the pier, framed by the unbroken horizon and the muted textures of concrete and water. The light is soft, almost hesitant — no harsh shadows, no dazzling highlights — as if the scene itself wanted to remain understated. I worked to keep the composition balanced but not too neat. The lamp post on the right anchors the image without overpowering it, while the figure sits almost at the centre, enough to draw the eye but still letting the expanse of sea and…

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    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013

    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    W Verdi

    January 29, 2014 /

    Milan rewards you when you walk slowly. I turned a corner and found a living quotation mark to a poster: an elderly man paused beneath a billboard of a stern, bearded face—Giuseppe Verdi by way of contemporary graphic design. The likeness was uncanny enough to make the old slogan in my head—Viva Verdi—mutate into “W Verdi,” a wink at how public imagery and real life can rhyme. I built the frame around that rhyme. The poster anchors the top-right quadrant while the man occupies the lower-left, a diagonal conversation that keeps the eye ping-ponging across the picture. I left generous negative space to let the pairing breathe; too tight and…

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    Foto-Grafo admitted to the Persol Reflex Edition contest

    April 16, 2013

    Blob

    January 4, 2014

    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Milan,  Winter

    Lost Cigarettes at Piazza Affari

    January 22, 2014 /

    The Milan Stock-Exchange is just closed, another stressful day is gone, so are the cigarettes. The Milan Stock Exchange has just closed. Another day of trading — of numbers, speculation, tension, and relief — is over. The square begins to exhale. The crowds thin, footsteps fade, and the traces of human presence remain in small, almost invisible ways. Here, in a shallow puddle on the cobblestones of Piazza Affari, the day’s residue is quietly recorded: cigarette butts, scraps, and the inverted grandeur of a neoclassical façade. I was drawn to the way the water held both the building’s form and the detritus of the day in a single frame. The reflection, sharp…

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    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014

    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020

    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 18, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014 /

    Fishing boats have a way of announcing themselves well before they reach the harbour wall. The sound of the engine carries over the water, but it’s the birds that really give them away — a moving cloud of wings and calls, circling, swooping, waiting for the scraps that will inevitably be thrown overboard. This shot catches the “Nuova Zita” in that precise moment of return, driving straight toward me, bow cutting through the water, foam rising in a perfect V. I chose a dead-centre composition, a choice some might consider too rigid, but here it felt essential. The boat’s symmetry — red trim framing the white hull, the vertical mast…

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    Guess who’s happier?

    May 27, 2013

    Hurry up and shut down the $%&? call!

    March 1, 2014

    Hanging Clothes Waiting to Dry

    February 18, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    The Guardian

    January 19, 2014 /

    Not scaring as a Pitbull would, but still deserving to be handled with care… He didn’t move. Not even when I approached with the camera. Not even when I paused to adjust the lens. He just stared—calm, unblinking, sure of his place. This photo was taken outside a closed wooden structure. Maybe a seasonal shack, maybe a beachside store. The railings were weathered, the wood silvered by sun and salt. Everything about the setting felt unfinished, in-between. Except for him. The black cat sat at the centre like he’d been assigned the role. Not hiding, not curious—just there. Positioned perfectly in the geometry of the fence, flanked by empty space…

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    December 22, 2024

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    February 16, 2013

    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Late Night Arrival at Bertinoro’s Castle

    January 15, 2014 /

    There’s something about fog that eats light and sound in equal measure. At Bertinoro that night, the mist rolled in thick and silent, swallowing the medieval walls until they were no more than looming shapes. The only figure breaking the gloom was this woman, striding toward the castle gate with a purpose that suggested she hoped — perhaps against reason — that someone inside might still be awake. I shot this in black and white not as an afterthought, but because the scene demanded it. Colour would have been irrelevant here — the atmosphere was all about tonal gradation, shadow, and grain. Yes, grain. This isn’t the crisp, low-noise look…

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    July 11, 2013

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    June 8, 2013

    Intelligence Contest

    April 15, 2017
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