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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Street Markets

    Hard Choice In Quai de la Corse

    March 21, 2014 /

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    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014

    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014 /

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    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014

    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Stand-up, Sugar!

    March 8, 2014 /

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    The Driver

    August 8, 2015

    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013

    The Watchman (Street-Photography Shortcuts)

    January 21, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  People

    The Taste Master

    March 2, 2014 /

    Would you like to be in his place… at least once?

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    Waiting for the Shinkansen – 2

    June 30, 2017

    An Open Gate

    January 13, 2015
  • 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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    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013

    Fuji X-T2 records audio at 16bit/48Khz

    October 11, 2020
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Small Talk

    February 10, 2014 /

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    A Two-Masted Schooner

    October 25, 2014

    Pixelmator Pro Debanding and Electronic Shutter

    December 24, 2022

    Hands of a Steward

    November 22, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Luck is an Attitude

    January 25, 2014 /

    That’s an interesting catch. The Latin word for “luck” is “fortuna” that doesn’t mean “luck”, but “fate”. So I’d rather like to be, as an old aphorism from Appius Claudius Caecus says (“Fabrum esse quemque fortunae suae) the “builder of my own fate”.

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    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019

    EOS-M. An act of fairness

    July 24, 2013

    The Aperitif

    October 5, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Milan

    A Fashion Shop in Milan

    January 21, 2014 /

    In a fashion shop is always hard to tell the difference beween a model and a store clerk.

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    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024

    On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

    June 17, 2025
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares

    Next Time, Maybe…

    January 12, 2014 /

    This is not the right moment to lunch outside. Maybe next time…

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    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014

    Ultras

    July 20, 2016

    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  Winter

    A chocolaterie in Bruxelles

    January 6, 2014 /

    What an elegant chocolatier!

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    Strolling in Stockholm

    July 4, 2016

    A Fountain’s Jet

    April 12, 2021

    Panoramio’s 200th photo

    February 4, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Groceries

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014 /

    The year is new, but the job is same old. Work hard, earn your day.

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    The Businessman…

    February 9, 2013

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014

    Springtime

    April 23, 2015
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013 /

    A few, different meanings. The most evident (?):it is a mirror, actually. Thus is not a peinture. The less evident: the title is a sleight of word on the famous Magritte’s masterwork “Ceci n’est pas une pipe“. The lesser evident: I shot the picture in Bruxelles, where is located the Magritte Museum.

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    A Fence

    November 6, 2014

    Photography and the dangers of ethics

    April 17, 2013

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  People,  Street Markets

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013 /

    Covent Garden, again. Like the music of Orpheus’Lyra, the voice of the singer brings back to life the lifeless mannequins.

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    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024

    Rockabilly

    September 15, 2013

    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015
  • Bottles&Cups,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013 /

    Behind the beer’s sockets, a barman discretely fulfills the order placed by his clients.

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    Uninterested

    March 2, 2021

    Ni

    January 26, 2014

    Autumn Leaves

    September 8, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  Street Markets,  Winter

    Christmas Time at Covent Garden

    December 25, 2013 /

    Christmas is coming and people enjoy the spirit of the upcoming holiday.

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    DSLR film scanning: episode three

    January 24, 2023

    An Antique Shop in via Cadorna

    December 10, 2023

    The Casual Observer

    September 5, 2013
  • Bookstores,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    A Bookstore in the Gallery

    December 22, 2013 /

    Rue de la Madeleine. One of the many bookstores in Bruxelles that keep the culture of bookreading alive

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    A few test shots with an MC Cosinon T200/4

    January 14, 2024

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Bookstores,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013 /

    No need to spend huge money, to have a good read.

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    Restaurant or Hellgate?

    June 21, 2013

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    The cameraman

    July 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    An Altar for the Propaganda Machine

    November 17, 2013 /

    A powerful weapon, that equally served the good and the evil.

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

    March 2, 2025

    Waiting for The Flight

    July 14, 2013

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Shops,  Street Markets,  Tobacconists

    Next, please!

    October 31, 2013 /

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    Posing

    June 17, 2022

    Last Check Before The Show

    July 21, 2014

    Alien Veins

    December 3, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Last Icecream?

    October 30, 2013 /

    Hopefully there is still something left…

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    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021

    The Bodyguard

    April 13, 2014

    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013
  • Airport,  Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Same Space, Different Worlds

    October 18, 2013 /

    Lost in their own business.

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    Generations – I

    August 6, 2014

    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014

    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Chess Players

    October 10, 2013 /

    Well, this is not Alechin vs Capablanca but… who cares?

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    Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

    March 3, 2024

    Boat Dock Bumpers

    October 26, 2014

    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    An Intense Conversation

    October 9, 2013 /

    Some photographs hold silence. This is one of them. Shot in a small restaurant in Bruxelles — the kind you’d only find by chance, and never the same way twice — this frame preserves what no longer can be: a place, a conversation, a quiet evening at a table now vanished. Two women sit facing one another, generations apart, mirrored by the soft geometry of light and posture. One speaks — or perhaps listens. The other waits — or perhaps remembers. Their hands do most of the talking, resting, folding, rising to punctuate a point. There’s water on the table, a half-empty bottle, a flickering red votive. Nothing staged. Everything…

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    Bent

    July 13, 2014

    Late Night@Piazza San Babila

    March 9, 2022

    Belgian Chocolate – Godiva

    November 20, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013 /

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    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

    A Street-Skater

    March 17, 2021

    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 2014
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