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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Gear,  Winter

    Powermeters

    February 18, 2023 /

    This photo was taken with an Ilford XP2 Super 400, a Voigtländer Bessa R2 and a Voigtländer 35mm f/1.4 II lens. The film was digitised using a Pentax K-1 and a Pentax FA 100/2.8 Marco mounted on a custom-built rig. The resulting raw was processed in Affinity Photo. In Develop Persona, first the image was turned in black and white, then the master curve was intverted and finally exposure, contrast and other parameters were tweaked.

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

    April 24, 2023

    The Way Out

    October 20, 2013

    Bronine Volkit Camera Hub. Mixed feelings

    November 30, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Gear,  Photography,  Thoughts

    The Mystique of Film

    August 24, 2022 /

    I have resisted for a long time before giving out my two cents about the neverending debate ‘film vs digital’. I gave up after the next self-delusion I read in a well-known ‘semi-pro’ (purposely not linked) online photography magazine. It featured the umpteenth column explaining how shooting film ‘gets the experience back’, going full-manual ‘forces you thinking’, having limited exposures ‘pushes you to become more selective’, and all the usual motives connected with the choice of travelling on a horse-powered chariot instead of using a regular car. There is no need to shoot film to experience all that. Set the camera on full manual, disable OIS and IBIS, use a…

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    Fireworks on Film

    January 19, 2013

    The Sorcerer’s Shop

    November 1, 2016

    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    Drying Clothes

    March 9, 2021 /

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    As Seen on Ferrania Film’ Stories section…

    December 4, 2023

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013

    Natural Silohuette

    September 8, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Summer

    The Answer is On the Wall

    August 28, 2020 /

    When I first saw this wall, I knew immediately that it had to be photographed. Not because it was particularly ornate or historically significant, but because of the simple red digits painted on its surface: 42. For anyone who’s read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this number isn’t just a number—it’s the number, the answer to life, the universe, and everything. And yet, here it was, not in some cosmic landscape, but on a weathered patch of brick and peeling paint. From a compositional standpoint, I kept the frame tight, letting the number sit just off-centre enough to avoid perfect symmetry. The texture of the wall does as much…

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    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    A Couple of Windows

    January 5, 2018 /

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    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014

    Seeing What Isn’t There

    October 27, 2015

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Venice

    The Prisoner’s View from the Sospiri’s Bridge

    September 25, 2017 /

    There is a certain poignancy in photographing through a barrier. The eye is forced to acknowledge not only what is visible but also the fact that the view is restricted, filtered, mediated by an obstruction. In this case, the lattice of stone from Venice’s Ponte dei Sospiri frames the canal beyond like an unwilling picture frame — one that speaks of confinement, not choice. From this vantage point, gondolas glide lazily beneath a small bridge, their passengers unaware of the weight of history pressing against the vantage point from which we watch them. The image is built on the interplay between sharpness and softness: the stonework in the foreground is…

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    Interpreti Veneziani – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Live@San Vidal

    September 1, 2017

    EOS-M. An Act of Fairness

    July 24, 2013

    Shooting Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)-like Events

    August 15, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Downtown,  Garages&Labs,  Lines,  Rome,  Spring

    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016 /

    I was walking along Via Margutta when the geometry in this shop window stopped me cold. Two empty frames leaned against the glass, one upright, the other tilted sharply as though it had slipped out of formation. Behind them, more frames receded into the dim interior, creating an optical echo — rectangles within rectangles, stretching away into the dark. I shot it in black and white film, embracing the grain and high contrast that the low light demanded. The texture is almost intrusive, but it adds a grit that feels appropriate for a street scene late in the evening. Exposure was tricky: I wanted to preserve the fluorescent highlights inside…

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    Hope after the Storm

    January 8, 2020

    The Audience (Not a Rock Concert, Indeed)

    September 23, 2013

    Landing

    December 4, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Cold Stuff

    November 28, 2015 /

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    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Paris,  Spring

    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015 /

    I didn’t stage the boots. They were already there — resting, waiting, perhaps forgotten. Red leather, worn smooth at the toes, zipped and upright like sentries. The scene caught my eye not because of the shoes themselves, but because of their place within this cage of repetition: iron grille, mesh netting, and behind it all, the geometry of a city reflected in the glass. The photograph rests on layers. Foreground: a net that seems both to protect and to obscure. Midground: the wrought iron, rusted and ornate, Victorian in its stubborn elegance. Background: the shoes. And beyond them, windows reflecting windows. This multiplicity of frames becomes the structure of the…

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    Hammer and Sickle

    April 27, 2015

    Sailing Home

    October 4, 2023

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Lines,  Spring

    Trespassed

    May 3, 2015 /

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    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025

    Legal Apartheid

    March 25, 2015

    As Time Goes By

    June 11, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015 /

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    Portrait of a Perinatal Cardiologist

    July 11, 2014

    Feuer

    July 10, 2021

    UnortORTOdox (Ferrania)

    July 22, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014 /

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    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013

    An illuminated escape path will help you to reach the exits …

    November 10, 2013

    The Day After The Tide

    December 12, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    The Drying Machine

    November 30, 2014 /

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    Staying Behind

    November 28, 2013

    Luggages

    April 20, 2019

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014 /

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    Macarons. Again

    October 23, 2015

    Modern Moai?

    October 10, 2023

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014 /

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    An Abandoned Book…

    January 28, 2013

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013

    Stylemaster

    August 22, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Visual

    Windows

    September 15, 2014 /

    The photograph isolates a stark interior: two narrow barred windows flanking a central wall, and above them, a single rectangular window letting in pale light. Geometry dominates—verticals and horizontals align, while the bars break symmetry with their irregular grid. The result is a study in confinement and release, the eye inevitably drawn upward toward the light source. Composition is strict, almost architectural. The side windows anchor the lower frame, their darkness reinforcing the weight of the walls. The brighter upper window, positioned centrally, becomes both focal point and escape. Depth is minimal; the flatness of the surfaces intensifies the sensation of enclosure. Technically, the black and white treatment enhances austerity.…

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    A Boat Under The Bridge

    September 18, 2016

    Vasa’s Ghost

    July 11, 2016

    The Referees

    June 6, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    The Lost Lock

    June 12, 2014 /

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    Under the Heat Of Rome…

    June 26, 2018

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014

    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    Hanging Heart at via Olmetto

    March 31, 2014 /

    Taken in Milan, this photograph is built around a single point of chromatic and emotional focus — a small, glossy red heart suspended from the centre of an ornate iron grille. The restrained colour palette of the stone façade and dark metalwork works to its advantage, ensuring the heart becomes a magnetic anchor for the viewer’s gaze. The pattern of the wrought iron, a chain of interlocking circles bisected by vertical bars, lends the image symmetry and rhythm, subtly broken by the heart’s irregular organic shape. The composition is tightly framed, allowing no distraction from the relationship between object and setting. The verticals of the grille are aligned with precision,…

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    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014

    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    Busy (again)

    February 2, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Milan,  Winter

    A

    March 30, 2014 /

    Some photographs are built on complexity — overlapping narratives, layered subjects, visual chaos distilled into coherence. This one is built on the opposite: a single, dominant letter and the deliberate restraint of elements. The capital “A” scrawled across the double wooden doors becomes both subject and statement. Whether an anarchist mark, an initial, or just a passing act of vandalism, it punctuates the otherwise rigid, formal architecture. The geometry of the building — rectangular panels, horizontal mouldings, the granite base — forms a rigid grid, and into this grid the bicycle is quietly inserted, its own triangles and curves breaking the dominance of the rectangles without challenging their order. Technically,…

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    National Security

    April 4, 2014

    The Audience (Not a Rock Concert, Indeed)

    September 23, 2013

    Fireworks on Film

    January 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013 /

    … or gone forever?

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    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014

    When Heroes Come to Town

    April 17, 2019

    Hope after the Storm

    January 8, 2020
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Summer

    Stairway to nothing

    September 18, 2013 /

    It was the kind of place you don’t really notice. A narrow passage, cracked walls, peeling paint, dim light. The kind of corridor you pass through without stopping. Unless you’re carrying a camera—and a little curiosity. I called this frame Stairway to Nothing when I first saw it on the screen. The name came unprompted. It just fit. The stairs are real, but lead to… what, exactly? A dead-end, a blank wall, maybe a half-forgotten door. You get the sense there was once purpose here—function, traffic, even a rhythm. Now it’s just remnants. A railing to hold on to, steps still intact, pots of green fighting back against the concrete. This wasn’t…

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    The Last Barrell

    December 10, 2015

    Street Food in Via Salaria

    March 13, 2014

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

    June 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  People,  Summer

    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013 /

    What will you find at the end of the corridor? The frame pulls you inward. The eye enters through the shadowed foreground, past the blurred figure standing half in, half out of the light, and begins its slow walk down the corridor. The walls, cracked and weathered, carry the patina of time. Arched ceilings recede rhythmically, each arch framing the next, each doorway leading you further inside. Along the path, framed photographs lean against the walls, their colours softened by the dim light. They are not hung with formality; they rest casually, like travellers waiting to be claimed. The projector to the right hints at moving images, yet here, everything feels…

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    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014

    Singers

    February 19, 2014

    A Calm Person

    January 8, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Gear

    EOS-M. Tips and Results For Street-Photography

    August 9, 2013 /

    In the quest for an acceptable use of my Canon EOS-M I think I’ve finally found a way to exploit my M-mount lenses after the poor experience with the LCD focus. The last two exposures posted, this and this, have been shot with a Carl Zeiss T* Biogon 35/2,8 through zone-focusing, while the picture of this post has been manually focused using the EOS-M’s 5x magnification feature. In both cases the results are more than acceptable, giving a new life to this severely limited camera. All I can say is that is true what seasoned photographers use to say about the cameras: as soon as you get acquainted with your…

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    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014

    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Fashion Shops,  Rome,  Summer

    A Little Of Thailand In Rome

    August 3, 2013 /

    Walking through Rome, it’s always the unexpected juxtapositions that stop me in my tracks. This small corner, framed by a weathered marble wall on one side and the muted sheen of a modern doorway on the other, holds a Thai welcome — a statue draped in marigold garlands, hands pressed together in the wai greeting, a silent gesture of hospitality transplanted far from its native home. From a compositional standpoint, I went for a straightforward, vertical framing to preserve the integrity of the statue’s posture. The side table in the lower right, with its offering of flowers and folded leaf packages, gives a cultural context that anchors the image. The…

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    November 20, 2013

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    July 27, 2013

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