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  • B&W,  Brand Stores,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Spring

    One Shot Story – Soulless Places

    April 17, 2025 /

    Official brand stores are a powerful way to assert a company’s presence. They are a bold statement of strength and confidence. They send a message to the customers and to those who aren’t yet: look! whenever you go we’re there for you(r wallett). Admittedly, when travelling abroad it is sometimes reassuring to find a ‘familiar’ place – a cafeteria, a fast food, an electronic gadget shop – where everything works ‘as it should’. On the other hand, though, this strength has a serious downfall. Where was this picture taken? Of course, you may guess the location from a few clues (for instance, it was likely taken in a small Italian…

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    Oh…MG!

    July 23, 2015

    Content Creators

    July 20, 2023

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021
  • B&W,  Bookstores,  Daily photo,  Winter

    二千円

    December 20, 2023 /

    The 2,000 yen note is something of a rarity even for the Japanese. As Japan is mainly a cash-based society (at least for everyday life), I made sure to carry enough money on my recent trip to the Kyushu region.The bank gave me a wad of brand new ¥2,000 notes, which were so unusual that they attracted the attention of many people I exchanged them with. The photo was taken with a КИЕВ 60 TTL and a волна 80/2.8, the film was a Ferrania P30.

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    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012

    Home on the Range

    May 17, 2015

    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017
  • Boston,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    Coffee at Caffè Nero

    July 16, 2023 /

    On the technical side, this photo was a test of the X-T5 capability to handle scenes with both strong highlights and shadows without increasing the standard dynamic range. As per the quality, despite the similarity of the name, definitely no, it has nothing ado with the ‘Nero’ one can taste in Trieste which —unbeknownst to many — is the Italian capital of coffee.

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    Natural Silohuette

    September 8, 2017

    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014

    Wasn’t He Supposed To Carry A Walther PPK?

    December 6, 2014
  • Boston,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Street Markets,  Summer

    A Cornhole Board – Independence Day Edition

    July 8, 2023 /

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    Snorkeling

    August 24, 2014

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Beach Wrestlers

    October 21, 2015

    Back Home

    December 5, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Jewelry,  Winter

    Floating

    February 5, 2023 /

    The Panasonic TZ100 is a very good travel camera. Its one-inch sensor allows a fair balance between performance and portability. Being slightly bigger of trendy smartphones, this camera delivers a way more better results.

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    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014

    ChitChat in a sunny day

    January 4, 2013

    Somewhere in Japan

    May 19, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Seasons,  Winter

    Cleaning the Tabernacle

    November 26, 2022 /

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    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014

    Photography and the dangers of ethics

    April 17, 2013

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Tokyo

    Tsutaya Bookstore@Ginza

    December 6, 2020 /

    This is a photo I took insude the Tsutaya bookstore in Tokyo. When faced with something like this, Amazon can’t win because no remote purchase can replace the experience of spending time in such a place (and the photo doesn’t do justice to the context, by the way).

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    An Inside Irongate

    February 26, 2014

    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Kyoto,  Summer

    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020 /

    Kyoto ‘s Teramachi-dori is full of suprises. Amidst shops of the most different kind and attire, booklovers can find this small gem. This is Dai-Shodo, a quiet print shop tucked into a narrow Kyoto street. I stepped inside on a grey afternoon with no particular plan. The light was soft, filtered through old windows and the hushed presence of paper. Everything in the shop seemed to lean inwards—frames, shelves, stairs—as if holding its breath in reverence. What struck me most wasn’t the prints themselves, but how they were displayed. Ukiyo-e woodblocks and vintage ephemera layered on every surface, propped rather than hung, as if caught mid-conversation. The stairway invited you up…

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    Canon EOS-M. Useless for Street-Photography

    March 28, 2013

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013

    PizzaPizza

    January 12, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Rome

    Deadly Bored

    January 6, 2020 /

    Once again, the meaning of this picture is counter intuitive and “made up” by the composition. The scene is seen from the perspective of the mannequin: at the end of a hard day spent sitting on the street-front, it (or he?) looks deadly bored and tries to kill the time before the shop closes by casually looking at the next passerby. The directional effect (from the mannequin to the passerby) is achieved by the diagonal connecting the tip of the hat, the feet of the mannequin and the cast of the shadow. Taken as a whole, these elements drive the eye from the mannequin to the persons and not vice-versa.

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    Guess Who’s the Human?

    October 12, 2013

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014

    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Jewelry,  Observer Bias,  PhotoCritics,  Rome,  Winter

    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019 /

    This photo conveys a message of “rejection”: first, a security guard who blocks access to the jewellery and then a signal of a prohibition of access reinforces the concept, thanks to a composition that guides the eye to a diagonal that goes from the bottom to the top, from left to right. Obviously, there is nothing “true” about all this because the overall result is the result of the organization of the spaces and the management of the perspective that allow connecting semantically elements that, in reality, have no relationship between them. It would have been enough to shoot from a different angle – or not juxtapose the security guard…

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    Hard Stare

    April 26, 2016

    A Splash of Colour

    November 13, 2013

    Empty Spaces

    May 23, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome

    Beer or Spritz?

    November 1, 2019 /

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    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

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

    April 24, 2023
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Seasons,  Summer

    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019 /

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    On the Range

    December 6, 2015

    On Film Simulation or ‘is fiction more real than reality, and why should we care?’

    July 19, 2025

    Is Iron Sky just a sci-fi movie?

    May 5, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garages&Labs

    Harley-Davidson

    December 24, 2018 /

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    Serva padrona @ Teatro Marrucino

    October 1, 2023

    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013

    Next Time, Maybe…

    January 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Tokyo

    StreetPizza@Ueno

    August 4, 2018 /

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    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022

    Sky Patrol

    September 12, 2021
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Shrinking Knowledge

    July 24, 2018 /

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    Back Home

    December 5, 2014

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019

    Surreal Judo

    December 11, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park

    June 6, 2018 /

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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 6 – Kodak Portra 400 – November 2016 shot in Sept. 2023

    June 5, 2024

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

    The Ref

    June 6, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Menu Meditation

    February 16, 2018 /

    There’s a particular silence in cafés just before ordering. That moment when the cold air from outside still clings to your coat, and all attention narrows to laminated options and the quiet negotiations of hunger. This was taken on a grey afternoon in Brussels. A couple sits across from each other, each reading their own menu as if studying for an exam. No phones. No talking. Just decisions to be made: sweet or savoury, warm or cold, this or that. It’s a familiar ritual, yet rarely observed this closely. What drew me in wasn’t the scene’s drama—there was none—but its quietness. The soft concentration on their faces, the gentle lean…

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    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019

    Somewhere in Japan

    May 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Summer,  Venice

    The Silent Ceremony

    November 2, 2017 /

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    On the Range

    December 6, 2015

    @Rome Maker Faire – 1

    October 9, 2014

    The Drying Machine

    November 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017 /

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    July 12, 2013

    Skating on the Riviera

    November 9, 2018

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    The Aperitif

    October 5, 2017 /

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    May 19, 2013

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019

    Conversation

    September 14, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garages&Labs,  Odds,  Summer

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017 /

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    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

    August 31, 2024

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Lines,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares,  Summer,  Venice,  Visual

    Seats

    September 11, 2017 /

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    June 13, 2014

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014

    @Rome Maker Faire – 5. Pensive

    October 18, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Restaurant or Killing House?

    July 18, 2017 /

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    April 23, 2023

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Every Single Day

    June 28, 2017 /

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    March 31, 2013

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    January 1, 2017

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    August 4, 2015
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