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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Projects,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    The Spinners

    June 13, 2013 /

    I want to ride my bycicle…

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    Writer Inspiration’s Tools

    April 17, 2015

    Photography Does Not Exist (Until the Eye Makes It)

    March 28, 2026

    Legal Apartheid

    March 25, 2015
  • 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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    A Dangerous Alley

    May 25, 2013

    Billiard On The Field

    November 2, 2014

    Just Another Piccadilly Circus’ View

    September 20, 2016
  • 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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    Portrait of a Wrestler

    October 27, 2013

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014
  • 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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    Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

    March 3, 2024

    A Special Dress for a Special Party

    July 6, 2016

    On Tips’n Tricks to ‘take you photos to the next level’

    May 29, 2025
  • 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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    5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

    September 28, 2024

    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015

    Leaving Home

    December 5, 2014
  • 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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    Three of a Kind

    July 6, 2013

    Tough Enough

    August 7, 2019

    Boat Dock Bumpers

    October 26, 2014
  • 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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    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013

    The Hands of a Drummer (Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez)

    April 24, 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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    Hammer and Sickle

    April 27, 2015

    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio

    May 12, 2022

    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015
  • 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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    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013

    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023

    TicTacToe

    September 1, 2014
  • 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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    Easy Parking

    August 12, 2013

    Same Space, Different Worlds

    October 18, 2013

    George Braque

    October 11, 2013
  • 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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    Boats

    September 18, 2021

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016

    The Sharp Shooter

    March 10, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    A Seagull

    May 10, 2021

    The Lost Lock

    June 12, 2014

    Behind the Quirinale: Order After Dark

    January 23, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Bus Driver

    September 16, 2016

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015

    Pensive

    February 26, 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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    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015

    Wonder… Wall

    June 8, 2021

    Singers

    February 19, 2014
  • 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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    A Street-Skater on the Waterfront

    March 17, 2021

    Careful With That Bike, Eugene!

    July 29, 2013

    Portrait with Skewers

    December 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019

    An Open Gate

    January 13, 2015

    On the Range

    December 6, 2015
  • 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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    Partner in Glam

    May 3, 2023

    Italian Stardust

    April 6, 2015

    A Lamp in an Old Teather

    March 8, 2016
  • 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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    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

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

    November 10, 2013

    Al Di Meola, Peo Alfonsi, Sergio Martinez – Live @ Teatro della Villa Comunale – Roseto degli Abruzzi

    July 30, 2025
  • 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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    Lady Gaga Art Rave

    October 5, 2014

    When We Thought We Would Have Changed The World

    August 21, 2014

    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017
  • 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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    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014

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    June 6, 2014

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021
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