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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Rome,  Summer

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

    July 11, 2024 /

    Tevere, the river that divides Rome in two, is one of my favourite places. No matter how much chaos there is in the ‘high places’: walking along the banks of the river puts you in another dimension, where time has no meaning and the pace slows down – Initially published on 35mmc.com Anchored boats stand still, in stark contrast to the fast-moving streets, crowded with cars, bicycles, pedestrians and tourists who have returned in droves once the pandemic is over. This is obviously a mirror image, but it looks as if it has been projected onto a digital screen. And here is what was mirrored: There are a lot of…

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    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014

    Don’t They Drink Tea, Instead?

    December 27, 2016
  • Daily Video,  Docks

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

    June 5, 2024 /

    This is the sixth episode in a series documenting the use of expired film in various contexts. Episode 6 features a Kodak Portra 400 shot with a Nikon F4 and a Nikkor 105 F2 defocus at the dock of Pescara. The film was not overexposed, was processed with Affinity Photo 2.

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    Out Of Focus, Once More

    October 6, 2014

    The Leica M9 CCDgate Outrageous Case

    December 11, 2014

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014
  • Autumn,  Daily Video,  Docks

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 5 – Kodak Tri X 400 – September 2015 shot in Sept. 2023

    May 8, 2024 /

    This is the fifth episode in a series documenting the use of expired film in various contexts. Episode 5 features a Kodak Tri-x 400 shot with a Yashica Zoomate 105 at the Marina di Pescara. The film was not overexposed, was processed with Darktable’s Negadoctor module and finalised with Pixelmator Pro. The results are not, by far, definitive.

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    Floating

    October 7, 2023

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

    October 11, 2020

    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    Red Beam

    October 24, 2023 /

    Night photography has always been an exercise in restraint and patience. The camera sees differently than the human eye after dark — more unforgiving, more literal. This frame, taken with a Fuji X-T4 paired with the Viltrox XF 85/1.8, is my attempt to balance that literalness with the suggestion of stillness. The subject is minimal: a breakwater crowned by a small red beacon, its reflection trembling down the harbour water. Compositionally, it’s brutally simple — the light dead-centre, symmetry imposed on a chaotic environment. There’s an honesty to the stark framing; nothing distracts from the red flare and its molten trail on the surface. Technically, the exposure was a delicate…

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    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019

    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015

    Fireworks on Film

    January 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    A Lighthouse

    October 11, 2023 /

    Another example of how the Viltrox XF 56/1.4 performs in very low light.To be honest, the Fuji X-T4’s X-Trans sensor played its part.

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    One Shot Story – Soulless Places

    April 17, 2025

    Belgian Hats

    October 19, 2015

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    Modern Moai?

    October 10, 2023 /

    Still pushing the Viltrox AF 56/1,4 XF on a Fuji X-T4.The limit has not been reached just yet.

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    The Spinners

    June 13, 2013

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

    September 28, 2024

    Kristina Miller live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    Sailing Home

    October 4, 2023 /

    The quality of the Viltrox 56 1/4 XF never ceases to amaze me.This image was taken with an X-T4 at ISO1600, so the quality of the sensor plays a significant role in the overall result. However, as the lens is not supported in Affinity Photo 2, the image is wysiwyg in the sense that no profile-based corrections have been applied.

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    Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

    December 19, 2024

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    Labcoats In A Moment Of Rest

    December 28, 2015
  • B&W,  Boston,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Downtown,  Parks,  Streets&Squares,  Summer,  Travels

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023 /

    ‘From Waltham to Boston’, an offshoot of a bigger project on documenting Boston’s pulse, is now available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book.

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    DxO Pure Raw empirical test

    November 22, 2022

    A tribute to an old friend

    January 7, 2014

    Interior Design at Aurum

    May 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Daily Video,  Docks,  Photography,  Winter

    Editing a photo taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 Sonnar and a Fuji X-T3

    February 8, 2023 /

    A vintage Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 Sonnar whose RF mount has been replaced with a Fuji X mount by Adriano Lolli (https://www.adrianololli.com).Coupled with a Fuji X-T3, it delivers pleasant results. Post production is highly subjective, so the final outcome might no be ‘acceptable’ to some taste. Still, the lens is very good.

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    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    The Silent Geometry of a Trabocco

    December 22, 2022 /

    This image came out of a walk I almost didn’t take. The light was beginning to fall into that uncertain hour, not quite golden but leaning into it, with a softness that flatters without deceiving. I was drawn to the trabocco — that wooden skeleton of fishing history jutting into the Adriatic like a forgotten broadcast antenna. Technically, the image lives and breathes in its lines. Everything points outward — cables, poles, railings — a quiet explosion of geometry pushing against the calmness of the sea. The house, slightly off-centre, serves as a visual anchor, balancing the thrust of the lines while allowing the scene to feel alive, not over-symmetrical.…

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    An Essay in Composition

    October 11, 2017

    A Step Ahead

    October 8, 2022

    A Fisherman

    August 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Fisherman’s Fatigues

    December 19, 2022 /

    I shot this one late in the day, when the light had softened just enough to graze the worn textures without flattening them. The fatigue in the title isn’t poetic—these clothes, half-limp, half-hardened with salt and use, are the remnants of someone’s labour, someone likely still out at sea. I didn’t stage anything. These were just there, draped across makeshift wooden trestles, drying under the weight of their own exhaustion. What makes this image work technically, for me, is the tension between stillness and implication. Nothing moves in the frame, yet everything speaks of motion just ceased—pulling ropes, lifting crates, hours on a rolling deck. The shallow depth of field,…

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    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014

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

    August 22, 2024

    Reluctant

    November 11, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Helsinki

    A Vessel Moored on the Pier

    September 27, 2022 /

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    Stop

    December 6, 2018

    The Glassmaster

    September 4, 2017

    The Fighter

    June 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Spring

    A Gull, Posing

    June 17, 2022 /

    A gull sits perched on a bollard by the water, its body angled just enough to suggest awareness of being seen. The rust-stained base, heavy and industrial, contrasts sharply with the lightness of the bird resting on top. It is a moment where function and chance converge, turning a docking post into a stage. Composition is centred and deliberate. The bollard fills the frame vertically, anchoring the image, while the gull becomes both subject and ornament. The blurred surface of the water behind isolates the scene, stripping away distraction so the viewer confronts the simple pairing of steel and feathers. Technically, exposure is well handled. The whites of the gull’s…

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    Having Sax

    February 6, 2015

    Heater

    May 23, 2015

    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Seasons,  Spring

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022 /

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    My camera’s early test shots

    December 20, 2012

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks

    Game Over

    April 15, 2022 /

    Photographs like Game Over remind me that sometimes the most direct visual statements are also the most loaded. Here, a simple, hastily spray-painted message on a makeshift surface is transformed into something more imposing by lens choice and framing. Shot on a Nikon F3 with a Nikkor 16mm fisheye, the image carries the unmistakable spatial distortion of that ultra-wide glass. The curvature of the edges pushes the wall and banner into a bowed shape, making the words bulge towards the viewer. It’s a subtle but effective way of amplifying the sense of confrontation—as though the message is leaning into us, impossible to ignore. Technically, the black-and-white treatment strips away distraction…

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    Fishermen in Rome, Again

    November 5, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    So Long, and Thank You for the Fish

    January 26, 2022 /

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    Without Glasses @ via del Corso

    January 25, 2016

    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022

    Don’t Forget!

    March 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People

    Soldering

    November 8, 2021 /

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    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013

    Is This My Breakfast? (Kirobo, the new Pinocchio)

    December 14, 2014

    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Black Cat

    October 31, 2021 /

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    Late Afternoon Shopping

    March 1, 2014

    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Summer

    Boats

    September 18, 2021 /

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    Hands of a Steward

    November 22, 2019

    Don’t They Drink Tea, Instead?

    December 27, 2016

    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Garbage,  Winter

    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021 /

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    Lorenzo negli stadi

    July 11, 2013

    Out of Focus, again

    October 3, 2013

    Coffee Doesn’t Need a Table. It Needs a Moment

    June 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Fixing the ship

    August 18, 2021 /

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    The Sentinel

    August 13, 2013

    The Quiet Riot

    November 19, 2017

    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Skating,  Winter

    A Street-Skater

    March 17, 2021 /

    I came across him by the harbour on a day when the wind carried the smell of salt and diesel from the moored fishing boats. He wasn’t performing for an audience—just skating alone, immersed in his own rhythm. His movements were sharp but fluid, somewhere between dance and martial art. I wanted to capture that moment when the body leans into balance, teetering on the edge of a fall but never crossing it. The setting presented an immediate visual contrast: the fluidity of his posture against the static, almost heavy backdrop of the docked ships. I framed him to the left, letting the background breathe, so that the masts, ropes,…

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    The Temple of Justice

    February 25, 2017

    Coffee Doesn’t Need a Table. It Needs a Moment

    June 17, 2013

    StreetPizza@Ueno Park

    August 4, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Exhibitions

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    November 26, 2020 /

    An important piece of history of the Italian Navy, at the anchor in the Port of Genova.

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    July 30, 2024

    Blob

    January 4, 2014

    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Hamburg,  Spring,  Visual

    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018 /

    I shot this industrial skyline in Hamburg, initially as a stark monochrome—smoke billowing against a winter sun, the city bathed in a haze of latent threat. But the image called for more. So I bent it, digitally, into a quartet: one frame fractured into four, each processed through a brutalist lens of colour theory—red, green, cyan, monochrome. A nod to Warhol, sure. But also to those old weather warnings on analogue TVs, when the signal bent reality and your retina paid the price. Technically, the base image holds. The stack of buildings anchors the composition in rigid geometry—angular, postmodern, the kind of skyline that doesn’t beg for admiration but demands…

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    Shooting Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)-like Events

    August 15, 2024

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

    March 2, 2025

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014
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