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  • B&W,  Buildings,  Court,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Justice Under Construction

    March 31, 2015 /

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    Alien Veins

    December 3, 2014

    Vinyl Never Dies

    September 2, 2013

    Why a Longterm Relationship (with your camera) Makes You Feel Good

    March 26, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Stripes of Light and Decay

    March 2, 2015 /

    Shot just after sunset, this image pivots on contrast—between elevation and erosion, movement and stillness, designed flow and neglect. The high-speed overpass above, lit with sodium arcs, forms an uninterrupted stream of engineered repetition. Below, the descending ramp is paved with crooked bricks, softened by moss and time, sloping into a dim alley where parked cars and old plaster tell a slower story. I waited for the last of the ambient light to thin out before releasing the shutter. The idea was to balance the residual blue of the sky with the warmer artificial tones bleeding off the lamps and roadways. Technically, it’s not pristine. There’s a softness in the…

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    Generations – I

    August 6, 2014

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    Pino Ammendola – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio@Teatro Marrucino

    May 13, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Winter

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015 /

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    Too Late

    April 10, 2015

    How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

    December 1, 2025

    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Merleria Livia

    February 14, 2015 /

    Some signs don’t light up the street—they anchor it. This one simply says “MERLERIA LIVIA,” glowing white against the black. Not neon, not flashy. Just enough light to find your way back to something ordinary. Useful. Forgotten. Shot on a rainy night, the kind that turns every surface into a mirror. The pavement reflects the streetlamps like a memory trying to stay present. A man walks slowly, slightly hunched—not from age, maybe just the weather. Hands in pockets, coat zipped. Nothing urgent, nothing staged. The shop is closed. You can feel it. The shutters are down, but the sign is still doing its job. Reminding anyone passing that once, not…

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    An Essay in Composition

    October 11, 2017

    Different Loads

    June 23, 2015

    Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola@Teatro Marrucino

    December 13, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015 /

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    A Broken Gearwheel

    August 27, 2014

    Sleep Wins

    August 30, 2013

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  Odds,  Winter

    Wire Stylist

    January 31, 2015 /

    When I photographed “Wire Stylist”, I was struck by the absurd elegance of decay — a rusted doorbell, its wires splayed like an eccentric haircut. The scene felt alive without life, playful and tragic in the same breath. It wasn’t planned. I noticed it while walking past an old building, the kind of wall that’s been painted too many times and forgotten once too often. The exposed wires twisted outward in chaotic curls, catching light in a way that almost mocked order. The eccentric “hair” needed asymmetry to feel spontaneous. Straightening the shot would have sterilised the humour. I left slight tilt and irregular framing to preserve its found quality.

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    Mind Your Business…

    January 9, 2013

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015

    A Fisherman in Rome

    November 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015 /

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    The SoundMaster

    July 10, 2013

    Hands of a Steward

    November 22, 2019

    Staged?

    February 16, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Winter

    Bulbs

    January 12, 2015 /

    This photograph was taken from the ground up, the lens almost brushing the asphalt. By choosing such a low perspective, the surface of the road becomes as important as the row of streetlights that recede into the distance. The texture of the pavement dominates the foreground, glistening with a grainy sharpness that catches the artificial glow. Technically, the image pushes the limits of night photography. The exposure is long enough to register detail in the dimly lit environment, yet short enough to keep the lamps from collapsing entirely into pure white orbs. The result is a series of glowing bulbs, haloed by flare, guiding the eye deeper into the composition.…

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    Yes, We…Can

    May 16, 2014

    How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

    July 30, 2024

    Friends

    August 3, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015 /

    This frame came to life walking past an alley where time seems to have hit pause. The bins stand in perfect alignment, regimented like bureaucratic soldiers, while behind them, the decaying wall tells a different story—chaotic, layered, unresolved. I shot this with a 35mm prime, letting the midday sun carve stark shadows that add to the irony of this supposed order. The exposure demanded precision. Too much light and I’d have lost the texture on the old plaster; too little and the bins would sink into murk. I leaned into the contrast, embracing the Leica’s natural tonal harshness in black and white. No dramatic angles, no “decisive moment” flourish—just frontal,…

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    The Financial Times at Night

    October 1, 2016

    Moon, hand-held

    April 30, 2021

    Rest under a tree

    May 31, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    A Fisherman

    December 25, 2014 /

      In a quiet marina, under the forgiving light of the late afternoon, a fisherman tends to his nets. There are no waves crashing, no shouting, no sails unfurling—just the steady, patient work of untangling, mending, preparing. This is not a romanticised image of the sea. There is no dramatic storm, no heroic pose. Just hands worn by salt, wind, and time, labouring over nylon threads that, like veins, carry sustenance from ocean to table. These nets are not merely tools—they are lifelines, a continuation of tradition, a quiet resistance to obsolescence. The photograph captures a kind of devotion: to craft, to survival, to family. Each knot tells of a…

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    A Beverage Dispenser

    November 21, 2014

    A perfect match

    February 1, 2013

    Glancing Books In A Brussels’Night

    November 12, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Red

    December 17, 2014 /

    The image was taken in the evening, when artificial lights mix with the faint remnants of daylight, producing a palette that can easily become muddy if exposure and colour balance are not carefully controlled. The choice to keep the scene in its natural ambient light preserves its authenticity, though it comes at the cost of some detail in shadowed areas. The central figure in the red jacket acts as a visual anchor, standing out decisively against the more subdued hues of the crowd. From a compositional standpoint, the frame is well balanced: the converging lines of the street lead the eye into the depth of the scene, pulling attention from…

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    Full Moon

    September 30, 2018

    Portrait of a Waiter

    July 22, 2013

    Almost Spotted

    February 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014 /

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    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019

    Breakfast at Rue Brisemiche

    March 25, 2014

    When the day is gone

    April 4, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Suspicious

    December 2, 2014 /

    Every street photographer knows that moment — the fraction of a second when a stranger’s gaze brushes against yours and something shifts in the air. Suspicion. Wariness. An almost imperceptible tightening of the body. That’s the curse: the invisible threshold you cross when candid turns into confrontation, even if only in the subject’s mind. In this frame, the man in the magenta sweater and black coat is mid-stride, his expression caught somewhere between concentration and mild irritation. He’s moving with purpose, but his eyes — just soft enough in the focus to keep anonymity intact — seem aware of my presence. The shallow depth of field lets the textured walls…

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    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    Halt!

    December 28, 2017

    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  Rome,  Winter

    Guest Are Welcome!

    December 1, 2014 /

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    Ottica Boncompagni

    November 7, 2014

    LP – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    July 22, 2022

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Winter

    The Drying Machine

    November 30, 2014 /

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    Side by Side, Ready to Ride

    July 21, 2015

    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013

    Out Of Focus, Once More

    October 6, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Winter

    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014 /

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    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014

    When Heroes Come to Town

    April 17, 2019

    Switch

    December 18, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Winter

    Life Within the Post Office

    November 24, 2014 /

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    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014

    Backstage, Before the Downbeat

    May 4, 2023

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Seasons

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014 /

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    Parallels & Diagonals

    December 21, 2012

    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014 /

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    In Hoc Signo

    August 20, 2015

    The Traffic Controller

    November 20, 2013

    Yet Another WDISF Post

    May 5, 2024
  • B&W,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    Faces in the Façade: A Ghostly Smile in Stone

    November 15, 2014 /

    The camera tilts upward, catching the weathered skin of a building where plaster peels like old parchment. Two circles and an arch, carved decades ago, sit quietly above the passageway. Yet in this photograph, the mind cannot help but play: the decoration forms a round-eyed, wide-mouthed face, its features soft and slightly comic. The resemblance is uncanny—here is the echo of the Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters, peering down with an oblivious grin. The cracked and flaking surface becomes its aging skin, the faded stucco a reminder that even ghosts of pop culture can find new haunts in architecture. Light and shadow turn structural detail into character. The deep arch below reads…

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    Frank Gambale All Stars – Live@Teatro Marrucino

    November 22, 2023

    Yet Another WDISF Post

    May 5, 2024

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Blow Up

    November 13, 2014 /

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    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013

    The Gate to the Appeal

    October 10, 2021

    The Last Barrell

    December 10, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Fun

    November 12, 2014 /

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    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015

    Scarf’s Meeting

    March 5, 2014

    Inside the Palaces of Power – Bruxelles

    November 8, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks

    Columns

    November 10, 2014 /

    In Brussels, this curved colonnade sits like an architectural punctuation mark in the middle of a park — a statement without a sentence. I positioned the frame to face it directly, giving symmetry the upper hand. The central alignment was intentional: it allows the gentle arc of the structure to pull the eye from one end to the other without distraction. The light was flat, filtered by a heavy overcast, which meant no harsh contrasts or deep shadows. This helped preserve the fine details in the stone — the weathering, the subtle variations in tone — while keeping the surrounding foliage rich but not overpowering. The grey of the columns…

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    June 9, 2013

    A Fashion Shop in Milan

    January 21, 2014

    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People

    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014 /

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    May 10, 2021

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    June 6, 2013

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014
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