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  • 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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    A Boat Under The Bridge

    September 18, 2016

    Do Not Touch

    June 5, 2013

    The Suit

    July 15, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome

    Beer or Spritz?

    November 1, 2019 /

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    Humannequin

    January 10, 2013

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021

    Foto-Grafo featured on Yanidel.net

    March 20, 2013
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Nagoya,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Seasons,  Summer

    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019 /

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    Nico Cilli Band@Chiostro Comunale – Città S.Angelo

    September 9, 2013

    Purple Haze

    January 3, 2013

    Belgian Chocolate – Godiva

    November 20, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Tokyo

    StreetPizza@Ueno Park

    August 4, 2018 /

    I took this photograph during a humid summer afternoon in Ueno Park, Tokyo, a few metres away from the art museums and temples that draw both locals and tourists. Amid the buzz of the park’s cultural gravity, I was drawn instead to this fleeting vignette of street food preparation—quiet, unassuming, yet visually dense. What first caught my eye was the can of tomato pulp, “A Pummarola ‘Ncopp,” planted squarely in the middle of the frame like an improvised totem. Its bold Neapolitan red, combined with the colloquial script and graphic of tomatoes, adds a deliberate contrast to the surrounding functional, almost makeshift textures. Everything else in the composition plays a…

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    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014

    Ni

    January 26, 2014

    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park

    June 6, 2018 /

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    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013

    Ugo Pagliai – Romeo e Giulietta@Teatro Marrucino

    March 29, 2022
  • 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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    7Artisans 35mm 0.95 – Testing this Fujifilm X Mount Lens in a Demanding Environment

    December 22, 2024

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

    October 11, 2020

    Hard Choice In Quai de la Corse

    March 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017 /

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    Ghosts

    October 19, 2016

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    Handling the Fishnet

    October 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Venice

    The Aperitif

    October 5, 2017 /

    This image was taken quickly, just as I passed the window. What struck me wasn’t the act of drinking — which is unremarkable in itself — but the multiple surfaces at play. A woman in profile, lifting her glass; a man absorbed in his phone; reflections of pedestrians I didn’t see until after the shutter clicked. And then the writing — bold, cartoonish, childish even — floating across the image like subtitles with no film. I shot through the glass deliberately, without trying to erase myself or the distractions. The transparency becomes part of the narrative. The drawing on the window, playful and crude, contrasts with the subdued tones inside:…

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    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014

    Red Storm

    June 30, 2013

    Helios 40-2 85/1,5 and Fuji X-T5: a sample

    June 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Lines,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares,  Summer,  Venice,  Visual

    Seats

    September 11, 2017 /

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

    June 17, 2025

    The Elders’ Council

    June 29, 2013

    Milan

    March 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Restaurant or Killing House?

    July 18, 2017 /

    Taken in Tokyo, this photograph shows the façade of Musashi, a ramen restaurant, but the presentation is far from the warm, inviting atmosphere one might expect from an eatery. At night, under the glare of its signage, the scene takes on an ambiguous mood. The bold kanji, stark in black against an overexposed white panel, dominate the frame’s upper third, flanked by circular emblems. Below, the silhouette of a swordsman — rendered in cut-out form with glowing characters down the centre — adds an almost cinematic tension, more reminiscent of a samurai film poster than a dinner venue. From a compositional standpoint, the frame is split into strong horizontal bands:…

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    Lost Bottles

    January 27, 2014

    The Arson

    February 21, 2014

    Staying Behind

    November 28, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Every Single Day

    June 28, 2017 /

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    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013

    The Photo I Didn’t Shoot

    June 8, 2013

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016 /

    I took this from across the street, handheld in the dark, balancing shutter speed against the pulse in my wrist. Inside, lit by that unmistakable domestic glow, a group leaned into conversation — not performative, not loud, just steady voices behind glass. I didn’t need to hear them. The posture told enough: bodies turned, heads dipped, attention fixed. The architecture did the framing. Georgian windowpanes divide the scene into grids, slicing the figures into segments — fragments of intimacy seen from a public path. The deep contrast between the warm interior and the cool, shadowed exterior gave the photo its form. This wasn’t voyeurism. It was a study in separation…

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    Ramping Up

    September 16, 2014

    Max Casacci – Live@Circolo Aternino, Pescara

    January 4, 2018

    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Winter

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016 /

      Saint Eustachio is not a place for rushed photography. Between the crush of customers, the warm glare off the coffee machines, and the tight spaces, you’ve got to work with precision — and patience. Using the Fuji X-E2 with a Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.5, I knew this would be a manual focus game. Autofocus would have been hunting in the low light, and besides, the Planar has a way of rewarding the slowness it demands. I focused carefully on the barista’s eyes, knowing that at f/1.5 depth of field would be razor thin. He was completely absorbed in his work, and I wanted that concentration to be the anchor…

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    The Odd Couple

    January 30, 2013

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

    July 19, 2025

    Selling Italian Ice in Boston

    March 11, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Winter

    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016 /

    A Nikon camera strap curls into the lower left of the frame, its familiar yellow letters unmistakable to anyone who’s ever held one. Yet the photograph itself was taken with a Fujifilm—a quiet, almost private joke between photographer and viewer. The rest of the image leans into misdirection. The camera is not the subject, at least not in the obvious way. Centre stage belongs to a pair of hands opening a quilted leather handbag, rings catching the light, fingertips poised in the act of searching or arranging. The fabrics, textures, and colours—matte grey, deep burgundy, soft velvet—compete gently for attention. The Nikon strap rests there almost incidentally, but of course…

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    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Reflexes

    December 30, 2015 /

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    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    A Curious Bystander

    December 24, 2013

    A moment of break…

    February 22, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Busy

    December 24, 2015 /

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    Close up of an Ethnic Chessboard

    September 1, 2018

    Landed

    December 19, 2013

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Streets&Squares

    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015 /

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    Footprints

    May 19, 2013

    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017

    Fixing the ship

    August 18, 2021
  • Colour,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

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

    December 8, 2015 /

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    Crate

    January 24, 2015

    Lost Bag

    December 8, 2016

    Hey Mister!

    June 25, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Cold Stuff

    November 28, 2015 /

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    A Seagull

    May 10, 2021

    A Priest Walking Through the Graffiti Streets

    October 19, 2019

    A Fisherman

    August 29, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    A Lamp

    November 14, 2015 /

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    A few test shots with an MC Cosinon T200/4

    January 14, 2024

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013

    5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

    September 28, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015 /

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    Red Storm

    June 30, 2013

    Nikkor 16mm Fisheye – Three Ways to Make use of Such a Lens

    August 22, 2024

    Labcoats In A Moment Of Rest

    December 28, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Venice

    Table Dressing

    July 15, 2015 /

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    Three Legged?

    July 21, 2017

    Marianna D’ama – Live

    December 2, 2018

    Is the next Kano Jigoro already on the mat?

    November 7, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Venice

    Nice Drink

    July 11, 2015 /

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    AI or not AI?

    October 3, 2023

    Next Time, Maybe…

    January 12, 2014

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Venice

    Aren’t Tapas Spanish?

    June 29, 2015 /

    Wandering through Venice, I came across this signboard outside a small eatery, its hand-painted letters enthusiastically proclaiming Cicchetti – Typical Venetian Food – Tapas. The first two lines make perfect sense: cicchetti are indeed a hallmark of Venetian gastronomy, those small, flavourful bites served in bàcari across the city. But then comes the curious third line: Tapas. A word so rooted in Spanish culinary identity that seeing it coupled with “typical Venetian” is enough to raise an eyebrow — and perhaps a smile. From a photographic perspective, the image is a straightforward yet effective piece of documentary work. The sign is centred and fills the frame, allowing the viewer to…

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    The Sprint Before the Ride

    August 8, 2013

    Three Shadows

    November 11, 2016

    Mistress Of Puppets

    April 30, 2017
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