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  • B&W,  Cities,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Projects,  Rome

    Behind The Shaft

    June 1, 2013 /

    Taken from inside one of those old Roman elevators—small, slow, caged in iron. The kind you find tucked into the corner of a 19th-century palazzo, where the wood creaks and everything smells faintly of dust and time. This photo looks outward, through the gate. But in a way, it also looks inward. The gridded metal frame keeps your focus close. The world beyond is blurred just enough to feel distant. Stairs curve down somewhere out of view. The light is natural, soft, diffused. The rest is silence. There’s no action here. No drama. Just the texture of the old ironwork, hand-forged patterns now worn smooth by a hundred years of…

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    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014

    Gravity on Pause

    September 5, 2025

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Seasons,  Spring

    Rest under a tree

    May 31, 2013 /

    Resting under a tree, on a sunny afternoon, in springtime.

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    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013

    Cognitive Dissonance

    December 5, 2025

    Sunny Afternoon

    January 22, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    A Dangerous Alley

    May 25, 2013 /

    A parking entrance at night. A dangerous place.

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    Lady Gaga Art Rave

    October 5, 2014

    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014

    Autumn Leaves

    September 8, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Urban Landscape,  Works

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013 /

    Sunday morning. Scorching sun. A work to be done on time. Life is a bitch.

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    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014

    A Fountain

    May 17, 2014

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

    May 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013 /

    Shot under the sharp midday sun, this image was never meant to soothe. The rope nooses hanging beneath the Egidi bridge in Lazio weren’t installed for dramatic effect—at least, I assume not—but the visual reads like a theatre of unease. Their symmetrical placement across the frame, knotted with intention, stirs something more than curiosity. I took the photo from a boat, drifting slowly beneath the bridge’s concrete weight. The water was still, though not glassy—its murky green caught just enough reflection to add texture. Compositionally, the image divides into thirds almost intuitively: the river below, the ropes suspended in the centre, and the man-made bridge above. The eye bounces between…

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    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014

    Behind the Quirinale: Order After Dark

    January 23, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape,  Works

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013 /

    The concrete is coming. How long will the last flowers stand?

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    Boats

    September 18, 2021

    Tattoos in Barcelona

    August 18, 2014

    Raus

    May 12, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013 /

    is it an oil painting, or is it for real?

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    Portraits From Nagoro, the Scarecrows’ Village

    December 25, 2025

    Killing Time

    October 10, 2016

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Seasons,  Spring

    Love is like a flower

    May 18, 2013 /

    Love is like a flower, Both need care and attention to grow, Both die if not fed, Both don’t last forever.

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    Still Together

    April 20, 2013

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015

    Selling Italian Ice in Boston

    March 11, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Couples

    May 17, 2013 /

    Two couples in a square. One seeks rest, the other, food.

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    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013

    Still Standing

    March 15, 2014

    Busy

    December 24, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape

    When the parking’s lost

    May 16, 2013 /

    When the parking is lost, there’s only one solution.

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    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014

    The Fisherman’s Knots

    February 11, 2014

    Hard Stare

    April 26, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    The Silent Ceremony

    November 2, 2017

    Leaving The Actor’s Studio

    January 14, 2014

    Where Do I Go From Here?

    October 13, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    Line Of Fire

    July 6, 2014

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Streets&Squares

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013 /

    less than twenty years have gone, and a telephone boot looks like a relic from the Stone Age.

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    The Fighter

    June 2, 2013

    Hard Stare

    April 26, 2016

    Portrait of a Professional Pugilist. Davide De Lellis

    March 8, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013 /

    Shot the morning after a wet December night, this scene is an unfiltered inventory of what remains once the bodies disperse. Three bottles—two upright, one half-tucked behind an iron gate—stand in for the absent crowd. There’s no music left, no voices, no movement. Just rust, grime, and the fragile persistence of glass. I framed the shot to keep the human presence implied but never visible. The steps lead nowhere, the iron gate is firmly shut, and the graffiti—hastily sprayed in orange—reads only “KR”, ambiguous and unresolved. That felt important. The story here is incomplete by design. It invites conjecture, not clarity. Technically, this is a study in texture. The marble…

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    An Old Portable Camera

    October 14, 2014

    DxO Pure Raw empirical test

    November 22, 2022

    Last Check Before the Start

    July 29, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013

    Fujifilm X-T3 Video Cheat Sheet

    September 5, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring,  Streets&Squares

    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013 /

    This photograph was taken in the last leg of a trip to Rome,  from inside my car while standing still because one of the many and usual traffic jam on the Tangenziale. I tried to have the road not to dominate the frame, fragmenting it, instead. A dark curve cuts through the image, separating two visual registers: the solid, static wall on the left and the receding tunnel of lights on the right. The image is less about travel than about perception while travelling. The motion blur and softness at the edges weren’t deliberate; they happened by chance. However, I like the result nonetheless. The photo would have felt dishonest…

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    Rectangles

    March 12, 2015

    A Beverage Dispenser

    November 21, 2014

    Not Sure I Would Like The Feel

    November 22, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013 /

    …left for somebody to come, or hidden by someone who just left?

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    Chasing Rainbows on the Open Road

    October 13, 2021

    Backstage, Before the Downbeat

    May 4, 2023

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Street Markets,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Why on Earth people, in Italy, still eat junk food?

    January 16, 2013 /

    A cold night in an Italian piazza. The air carries the scent of roasted chestnuts, espresso, and wood smoke—but here, under the halo of fairy lights, the smell is unmistakably different. Oil. Sugar. Processed salt. A small crowd stands in front of a street cart, its bicycle frame weighed down with canisters, bags, and the faint hum of a generator. The vendor moves with practised speed, ladling batter, folding paper, handing over parcels of deep-fried comfort. The queue is patient, hands buried in pockets, eyes following the ritual as if it were part of the winter tradition. Beyond the cart, a carousel spins in soft blur, its music faint against…

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    December 8, 2018

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    Elishéva live@Faneuil Hall

    July 8, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Summer

    My camera’s early test shots

    December 20, 2012 /

    Pictures with no specific “intent”. Just went to the docks and clicked around, to get an early feel of how does the camera work. Results: mixed feelings.

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    May 6, 2014

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    May 19, 2013
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