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  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  Visual

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014 /

    Another example of the constant brain’s meaning quest in the things the eye sees. It wasn’t supposed to look back. This is the underside of a building’s curved overhang, a detail most people would never glance up to see. Shot from the ground in perfect alignment, it becomes something else entirely: an iris of steel and shadow, a lens with no glass, watching the world below. I titled it The Eye not just for the shape, but for the feeling. The symmetry is strict—deliberate, almost mechanical—yet the reflection in the polished granite softens it, turning precision into something poetic. A full circle emerges where there’s only a half. What’s solid becomes imagined.…

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    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013

    Portrait of The Alfa Romeo Guru

    September 25, 2014
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Social Control,  Visual,  Winter

    National Security

    April 4, 2014 /

    A danger for the National Security? This picture is nothing special, but for the fact that while I was taking it a security guard at the European Parliament tried to stop me on the “National Security” excuse, by claiming that photos were not allowed. Minding the lesson of “Stand your ground” I countered politely the requests of the guard, by telling him: – First: shooting in public spaces is perfectly legal, – Second: there where no “no-photos allowed” signs, – Third: “I am a lawyer and a journalist. I checked both EU and Belgian Law and find nothing that could prevent me to do what I am doing. Could you…

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    Conversation

    November 27, 2013

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014

    Three Tires

    May 18, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    Stairway to Nothing

    March 9, 2014 /

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    @Rome Maker Faire – 3. Stare Of The Mechanical Man

    October 13, 2014

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

    A Winter Outdoor Chat

    December 17, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Visual

    A Silohuette on the Bridge

    March 3, 2014 /

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    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014

    Shaken

    October 1, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Visual,  Winter

    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014 /

    There’s something oddly compelling about the scars of a boat out of the water. Without the softening shimmer of the sea, the hull stands exposed — every scratch, blister, and patch telling a story of its time afloat. When I came across this one, propped up on its stand, the colours struck me first: the chalky off-white giving way to the battered turquoise, with angry flashes of red oxide bleeding through like old wounds reopening. I framed it tight, keeping the top and bottom of the hull cropped to remove any distraction from the shapes and textures. The horizontal divide of colour became my anchor, with the wooden prop jutting…

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    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013

    The Rise of the Mutant Spiders?

    November 4, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014 /

    While walking past this building, I noticed how the conduit layout on the wall resembled a kind of industrial score—lines and pauses, rhythms and patterns. Not an installation, not a sculpture, just a highly structured solution to a very practical problem. The moment I saw it, I knew the camera had to do nothing more than document with precision. The photograph is as straightforward as its subject. I shot it head-on to avoid distortion, aligning the sensor with the wall surface as squarely as possible. The frame is divided into two visual planes—the dense column of vertical and diagonal pipes on the left, and the open, linear turns on the…

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    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013

    Mind Your Way!

    May 28, 2013

    Through the Fog

    January 5, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Visual,  Winter

    In-Eye

    February 2, 2014 /

    Photography has a curious way of leading the mind into patterns — an instinctive search for meaning, even when none exists. We are hardwired to interpret shapes and juxtapositions, to anthropomorphise objects, to find faces in clouds and stories in shadows. This image is one such case: a seemingly simple shot of a ship seen through a weathered window, yet the geometry conspires to suggest something far more figurative. Here, the diamond-shaped porthole becomes an eyelid, its corroded frame the brow, and beyond it, the bow of the ship forms an unmistakable iris and pupil. It’s a quiet trick of composition — one I noticed only after the fact —…

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

    July 24, 2025

    Three’s Company

    November 14, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Visual

    Ni

    January 26, 2014 /

    I photographed this wall for its simplicity: two scraps of weathered wood fixed to rough concrete, nothing more. Yet in their placement they formed a minimal composition, two marks on a textured surface that immediately reminded me of the Japanese character for “two” (二). It was not intended, but the resonance was unavoidable once I saw it through the viewfinder. The surface itself does much of the work. The granular, uneven wall contrasts sharply with the grain of the old planks. The top piece, broader and darker, bears the scars of age—splits, nails, faint stains. The lower fragment, smaller and lighter, almost echoes it, as if the two are in…

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    Bulbs

    January 12, 2015

    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 8, 2016

    Phone Call – 2

    February 20, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    Blob

    January 4, 2014 /

    I definitely have a thing for fountains…

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    DxO Pure Raw empirical test

    November 22, 2022

    Vinyl Never Dies

    September 2, 2013

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013
  • Airport,  B&W,  Daily photo,  London,  Visual

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013 /

    I took this photo just after the final boarding call echoed through the terminal, the kind of stillness that only follows a rush. The lounge was cleared in minutes — all urgency gone, replaced by silence. The chairs, once wrapped in the inertia of travel, now stood like architectural punctuation against the faux-wood paneling, waiting for the next wave of restless travellers. I framed the shot at a low angle, intentionally compressing the line of stools to push a rhythm into the scene — one repetition after the other. It’s a simple structure, but the legs of the stools, criss-crossing over each other, create a mesh of shadow geometry on…

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    What Lasts of a Saturday Night Party

    January 24, 2014

    Tiles

    October 31, 2014

    Urgent Calls Only

    May 15, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  Visual,  Winter

    London Panning

    December 30, 2013 /

    Pure Luck. Sometimes happens.

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    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013

    Night Shift At The Gas Station

    November 11, 2013

    Saturday Night’s Ice Cream

    August 19, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Visual

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013 /

    Ed Hamrick’s VueScan is a great software that supports almost every scanner available, including out-of-production film scanner. Sometimes its interface behave in non documented way as in the case of the Bits-per-pixel option in the Input tab that disappears once the Infrared Clean option is enabled in the Filter tab. I wasn’t able to figure out the relationship between the two settings until Ed Hamrick himself kindly answered (lightfast, I would say) to my question. Kudos to him for that, but it would be nice to have this Infrared clean-Bits per pixel issue mentioned in the user guide :)

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    The TelcoMan

    January 26, 2015

    The Chess Players’ Summer Nest

    July 31, 2014

    Pillars Of The Beach

    August 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Visual

    The Empty Stage

    November 25, 2013 /

    There’s a stillness in this image that’s almost unnerving — the kind of stillness you find after the audience has gone home, the performers have left, and the sea has reclaimed the soundscape. The photograph presents what looks like a small, weather-worn platform facing the horizon, its rusted surface marked by time and salt. In front of it, the patterned paving stones draw the eye directly forward, as though you’re being ushered to take your place before the infinite backdrop of sky and water. Compositionally, the image is disciplined and symmetrical without feeling sterile. The vanishing lines of the pavement and the horizon are set dead-centre, pulling you into the…

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    Davide Grotta – Live

    December 8, 2018

    The Ipad Shooter. Who needs a Nikon D4 anymore?

    November 3, 2013

    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 12, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    A Splash of Colour

    November 13, 2013 /

    This shot came out of instinct more than planning. A night downpour had just passed, the roads were still gleaming, and I caught the moment a car ploughed through a puddle like it was carving a wound into the street. The camera barely kept up. What emerged isn’t a photograph of a car, or a street, or even rain—but the collision of light, speed, and water at their most chaotic. From a technical standpoint, I wouldn’t call this “clean.” The headlights are blown to pure white. The motion blur—particularly on the car—is complete, to the point of abstraction. Detail is secondary, sacrificed to velocity. But for once, precision wasn’t the…

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    Settled in the wrong place

    January 11, 2017

    A Special Dress for a Special Party

    July 6, 2016

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

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

    November 10, 2013 /

    Not only when airborne.

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    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013

    Portrait of The Alfa Romeo Guru

    September 25, 2014

    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    The Rise of the Mutant Spiders?

    November 4, 2013 /

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    Dark Cloud Over San Pietro

    August 27, 2021

    The Coach

    December 9, 2018

    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  OutOfFocus,  Visual

    Out of Focus, again

    October 3, 2013 /

    Again a non intended, out-of-focus image – missed shot, in other words. Nevertheless I like the “visual” effect.

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    Street Crossing

    September 17, 2014

    An Essay on Light

    October 13, 2017

    The Arson

    February 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013 /

    I took this shot late in the evening, drawn by the improbable geometry cast by a wall sconce in an otherwise nondescript alley. The light didn’t just illuminate—it carved. A fan of brilliance stretching vertically in both directions, like a double-edged blade suspended in air. No tricks. No editing. Just a camera, a wall, and the physics of reflection doing the work. The symmetry is what compelled me. It’s never perfect, but in this frame it came close enough to earn the name Lightblade. The triangular base descending downward balances a more complex, diffused spray upward, where the beam fragments slightly—revealing the uneven surface of the wall and subtle flaws…

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    Ghosts of Ginza

    November 14, 2023

    Fast Roping

    October 21, 2021

    Last Check Before the Start

    July 29, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Red Tears

    June 7, 2013 /

    I’ve always been drawn to the small, almost accidental pieces of abstraction that appear in everyday life. This photograph began as nothing more than a patch of painted wall, but the way the red pigment bled into the pale blue beneath was too evocative to ignore. The streaks felt like gravity-made brushstrokes, each drip tracing its own irregular path — a literal record of time and viscosity — and yet, when taken in as a whole, they resembled something far more visceral. Hence the title. Compositionally, I chose a tight, horizontal crop to emphasise the division of the frame into two bold blocks of colour. The hard upper edge of…

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    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 2013

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014

    7Artisans 35mm 0.95 – Testing this Fujifilm X Mount Lens in a Demanding Environment

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