Photos, not gear

  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact
Menu
  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact

No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt!

  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Shops,  Thoughts

    Kime in photography

    June 9, 2013 /

    While I was setting the aperture and the focus zone to shoot from the hip the subjects shifted the position of their heads and I missed the shot. Lesson learned: I decided to take this picture too late. I was aware of the composition a good ten seconds before, but I idled in uncertainty. When I finally resolved myself to shoot, I did everything on a hurry a I missed the shot. I definitely need to develop Kime in photography.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Fisherman’s Friend

    January 10, 2014

    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019

    Singers

    February 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Projects,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    Do Not Touch

    June 5, 2013 /

    An effective anti-theft device?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Observer

    November 30, 2013

    Humannequin

    January 10, 2013

    Twin Helmets

    July 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    Upcoming Call

    June 3, 2013 /

    A call is coming. Maybe…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Pre Colombian Artwork

    September 27, 2013

    Cornermen

    June 4, 2013

    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garages&Labs,  People,  Projects,  Shops

    A quiet watchdog?

    May 23, 2013 /

    A quiet watchdog, or long-time friend who enjoys some rest?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Life Within the Post Office

    November 24, 2014

    Couples

    May 17, 2013

    Pipes in Colour

    May 1, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013

    Superpila still rides…

    December 10, 2018

    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 7, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013 /

    A dress and a bag waiting to be sold. Will the party ever take place?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The EOS-M just sucks

    July 18, 2013

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    Silhouettes@Osaka Castle

    June 12, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Everything is ready for the service

    July 2, 2013

    Waiting To Board At Santa Margherita Ligure

    August 16, 2014

    A Puff of Smoke

    August 29, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Tables and chairs, at night

    May 7, 2013 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013

    Full Moon

    May 9, 2017
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013 /

    They look innocent enough — two soft, shapeless seats next to a rattan table, tucked under a wall in some coastal bar. But the title gives it away: Fracchia’s Chairs. And if you know the name, you know exactly what kind of scene this is. Giandomenico Fracchia, as played by Paolo Villaggio in the 1970s, was the tragicomic soul of bureaucratic Italy: servile, stammering, utterly at the mercy of authority. There’s a legendary sketch in which he’s being questioned by his boss — unable to sit still on a chair so round and formless it’s practically a trap. And here it is again, reimagined in polyurethane and branded with Nastro Azzurro. The…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Teleferic de Montjiuc

    May 28, 2014

    Three Legged?

    July 21, 2017

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Still together

    April 20, 2013 /

    After a lifetime, Still together, like the very first day.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Lost Garage

    July 8, 2013

    Catching the Tube in Paris

    June 11, 2014

    The Modern Preacher

    November 14, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The missing guest

    April 19, 2013 /

    Everything is ready to start the party, but a missing place suggest that they still have to wait…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Guardian

    January 19, 2014

    A priest

    October 19, 2019

    Call On The Docks

    August 4, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Shops,  Tobacconists

    A future to tell

    April 18, 2013 /

    Quietly waiting, years after years, for somebody eager to know his own fate.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013

    A Dislodged Portal

    December 15, 2018

    A Fishnet – 1

    October 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Projects,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Shops

    Late-afternoon’s snack

    April 15, 2013 /

    …who knows what will be served for dinner?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Nightmare

    August 23, 2013

    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015

    Shoes’ Meeting in Corso Vittorio

    March 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Marketing,  Shops,  Spring

    Hard Spam

    April 1, 2013 /

    Sometimes spam doesn’t hide in your inbox. It glows in a pharmacy window. Shot on a quiet evening walk, this storefront display in Rome—or somewhere very much like it—caught my attention with the subtlety of a neon bullhorn. A perfectly literal interpretation of hard advertising: Viagra, Levitra, Cialis. Bold red font, urgent discounts, official decree cited. Street-level pharma meets street-level comedy. The scene is absurdly human. Framed by a closed shutter and a lonely Gaviscon box, the paper sign is taped like a last-minute school notice, but the message is anything but shy. There’s no algorithm, no clickbait. Just unapologetic, front-facing capital letters offering a prescription-strength punchline. It’s spam—but analogue. No filters,…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Modern Nazca?

    December 4, 2014

    Under the Bridge

    November 6, 2013

    Distraction

    April 6, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Markets

    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016

    The Stare of a T800

    August 4, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    Chef

    March 6, 2013 /

    … the last cigarette, before the kitchen opens.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013

    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Shops

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013 /

    It’s cold. But for a while, better stay outside.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014

    The AfterTide

    December 12, 2013

    Barbarians At the Beach

    August 30, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Markets,  Street Photography,  Winter

    Head-Dresser

    February 11, 2013 /

    A market stall at first glance, and yet, a surreal composition unfolds. Plastic mannequin heads rise from wooden sticks, lined up with aloof dignity, each adorned with scarves and hats meant to lure the hurried passer-by. They stare silently into space, held aloft like modern-day trophies, eerily anthropomorphic yet stubbornly artificial. The display isn’t just for commerce—it’s unintentional theatre. The pun in the title Head-dresser plays cleverly on the expected hairdresser. But instead of grooming the living, this stall ‘dresses’ the disembodied, the ornamental. These mannequins are not being styled—they are the style, repurposed vessels for fashion’s utilitarian need. And to the side, a woman walks past in winter garb, seemingly unaware of…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Cello Player

    April 24, 2017

    A Zen Garden?

    February 22, 2014

    Hard work

    February 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects,  Restaurants&Bar,  Street Photography

    Multitasking

    February 10, 2013 /

    guess who is the most involved? … the chair, of course!

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013
567

Projects

  • Daily photo (1,390)
    • B&W (272)
    • Colour (1,102)
  • Daily Video (15)
  • Portfolio (2)
  • Projects (1,302)
    • Airport (15)
    • Bottles&Cups (12)
    • Cars&Bikes (42)
    • Chairs&Seats (19)
    • Cities (454)
      • Barcelona (16)
      • Boston (11)
      • Bruxelles (65)
      • Hamburg (3)
      • Helsinki (2)
      • Kyoto (2)
      • London (27)
      • Milan (50)
      • Nagasaki (2)
      • Nagoya (8)
      • New York (9)
      • Nikko (1)
      • Osaka (3)
      • Oslo (17)
      • Padua (1)
      • Paris (31)
      • Rome (146)
      • Stockholm (11)
      • Tokyo (29)
      • Tsukuba (2)
      • Venice (22)
      • Yokohama (1)
    • Court (23)
    • Landscape (99)
      • Beach&Shores (78)
    • Lines (19)
    • Marketing (5)
    • Moon (7)
    • Observer Bias (14)
    • Odds (21)
    • OutOfFocus (13)
    • Parks (6)
    • Past&Relics (55)
    • People (622)
      • Actors (14)
      • Artists (84)
      • Fighters (29)
      • Portraits (41)
    • Seasons (913)
      • Autumn (142)
      • Spring (180)
      • Summer (260)
      • Winter (345)
    • Shops (164)
      • Barber&HairStylist (1)
      • Bookstores (10)
      • Brand Stores (1)
      • Fashion Shops (15)
      • Garages&Labs (11)
      • Groceries (3)
      • Jewelry (3)
      • Patisserie (11)
      • Restaurants&Bar (92)
      • Street Markets (14)
      • Tobacconists (2)
    • Social Control (50)
    • Travels (18)
    • Urban Landscape (292)
      • Boulevards (12)
      • Bridges (7)
      • Buildings (23)
      • Docks (74)
      • Doors&Windows (26)
      • Downtown (30)
      • Exhibitions (11)
      • Fountains (6)
      • Garbage (18)
      • Gates&Fences (12)
      • Parks (20)
      • Streets&Squares (65)
      • Works (2)
    • Visual (67)
    • WideAngle (13)
  • Reportage (16)
  • Sport (72)
    • Beach Handball (1)
    • Beach Volley (5)
    • Billiard (1)
    • Body Builiding (1)
    • Cycling (1)
    • Fighting Disciplines (24)
    • Handball (2)
    • Kite Surf (4)
    • Road Running (1)
    • Roller Derby (1)
    • Rowing (2)
    • Shooting (12)
    • Skating (4)
    • Soccer (6)
    • Swimming (Fin) (1)
    • Track&Field (5)
  • Thoughts (226)
    • Gear (68)
    • Photo Journalism (6)
    • PhotoCritics (19)
    • Photography (63)
    • Street Photography (83)
    • Technique (29)
Dear anonymous visitor, you may enjoy this web site’s contents with all the ease of not being tracked.

I do not know your identity and will do nothing to figure out who you are.

This explains why I do not ask for your consent: it is not possible to abide by the law if one’s counterpart is unknown.

I do not have social network’s ‘share buttons’, comments are disabled, as are user registration features.

I only use those cookies and pieces of code that make Google Analytics work and that will eventually be dismissed as soon as I am sure that Matomo (also installed) works as advertised.

If you check this website with some online tool you may find two cookies ‘_utmz’ and ‘_utma’. The former tracks your sessions, the latter your location. You may find more information in the Legalia and Cookie Policy page

Compulsory Information

  • Legalia
© 2025 Andrea Monti - all rights reserved