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  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    The Boat That Never Left

    September 26, 2019 /

    Docked, stripped, tagged, rusted. I shot close with a fisheye to exaggerate the curvature of the hull and drag the viewer across its surface. The distortion isn’t incidental—it’s structural. The lines bend to reveal scale and tension. This is graffiti over steel, corrosion under paint, void behind broken glass. I exposed for the midtones to hold the whites in the spray and the texture in the oxidised seams. f/8 for consistent edge-to-edge sharpness, ISO 200, 1/125s. Light was flat—overcast sky softening shadows without dulling the forms. The left-to-right arc carries the frame. No central subject. Instead, accumulation. Tags, vents, cables, fractures. The dolphin up top is barely visible but critical—vestigial optimism…

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    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 12, 2018

    Off Duty

    September 4, 2015

    A Mini At The Garage

    June 16, 2013
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer,  Urban Landscape,  WideAngle

    A Bridge

    September 22, 2019 /

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    An Antique Shop in via Cadorna

    December 10, 2023

    The Straycat

    December 3, 2013

    Happy New Year

    January 1, 2017
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  WideAngle

    A London’s Skyline

    September 13, 2016 /

    London at night has an entirely different pulse. From the South Bank, the city stretches across the Thames in a jumble of modern glass and steel, its towers blinking like an impatient circuit board. In this frame, the Walkie Talkie leans imposingly to the right, while the jagged edges of the Cheesegrater and other high-rises punctuate the skyline. The Millennium Bridge slices across the scene, leading the eye to that bright cube of light floating on the river—a beacon, a question mark, perhaps both. Technically, this was a balancing act. Night photography in an urban environment often tempts you to overexpose the lights or lose detail in the shadows. Here,…

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    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014

    The Google Experiment

    February 1, 2014

    Outside the Courthall

    April 15, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  Spring,  WideAngle

    PI Room At Palais de la Découverte

    June 7, 2015 /

    Walking into the Palais de la découverte, I was expecting to find science distilled into exhibits, but not quite in the graphic, almost Pop-art punch delivered by this wall installation. Bold, oversized foam digits leap from a sterile white surface, forming the endlessly irrational sequence of π. The visual rhythm is broken strategically with occasional black numerals, pulling the eye into brief moments of disruption. Below the digits, the names — EUCLIDE, EULER, FERMAT, FOURIER — provide a calm intellectual gravity against the visual chaos above. This shot was as much about the tension between mathematics and design as it was about light and form. I framed it head-on to…

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    Columns

    November 10, 2014

    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    Masters of Propaganda

    July 18, 2023
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Summer,  WideAngle

    Bent

    July 13, 2014 /

    Shot with a Nikon F3 and a 16mm fisheye, this isn’t your typical curved-sky, skateboard-in-midair kind of photo. Instead of pushing the distortion to the front of the image, I let it sneak in at the edges—just enough to bend the rules. The subject is ordinary: a coastal bridge, a pedestrian path, the usual lampposts lining a curve. But the lens pulls the whole scene inward, gives it weight and sweep, turns a flat space into something that stretches, leans, folds in on itself. I like using fisheye glass this way—not as a gimmick, not for laughs, but to see how geometry shifts when you force perspective without centring it.…

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    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015

    The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

    August 31, 2024

    A Toilet of the Court of Rome

    March 11, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    this image hinges on simplicity and distortion. The sun was directly overhead, leaving the shadow of the pole as a near-perfect sundial, slicing the centre of the frame from bottom to vanishing point. That shadow was the whole reason to shoot: absolute verticality rendered into graphic contrast on a near-featureless plane. The lens dictates the structure. At 16mm, lines bow. The horizon curves. Perspective exaggerates. I leaned into it—there’s no attempt to correct distortion in post. The intention was not to imitate a rectilinear frame, but to emphasise space as abstraction. The beach becomes a sphere, the sky a ceiling, and the tiny trace of buildings at the perimeter only…

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    A Great Marketing Stunt

    May 27, 2014

    Alone, Together…

    June 19, 2013

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

    December 22, 2024
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    Friendship is Forever

    March 6, 2014

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014

    The Fisherman’s Knots

    February 11, 2014
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014 /

    I made this image at the end of a long lunch — the kind where conversation lingers long after the plates are cleared, and the table becomes less of a place to eat and more a canvas of what just happened. The residue of red wine had bled into the paper surface, leaving behind those familiar circular stains — not accidental, not staged, just there. And I leaned in, glass still in hand, and shot. Technically, this is an exercise in distortion and proximity. I used a wide lens, close focus, and a shallow depth of field. The resulting visual field is warped, but purposefully. You can see the sweep…

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    Open Interior

    March 14, 2021

    Pure Joy. An Essay in Street-Photography

    May 25, 2014

    Aren’t Tapas Spanish?

    June 29, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    Kneeling in the surf with the camera just above waterline, I framed this beached buoy like a stranded witness—half-devoured by barnacles, its functional past eroded by time and tide. The wave motion is deliberate: a slow shutter gave the water its painterly strokes, pulling the viewer toward the object with a sense of gentle urgency. The wide-angle perspective exaggerates scale and places the buoy in stark contrast with the horizon. The red-orange plastic punctures the cool blues of sea and sky, a sharp chromatic discord that anchors the entire composition. It’s an aggressive intrusion into the otherwise pastel calm of the shoreline, yet visually satisfying because of the balance created…

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    Cupido’s Fall

    June 2, 2014

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    Forza Italia

    July 12, 2021

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    April 6, 2013

    A Skull

    August 18, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014 /

    This image is the outcome of a technical test as much as it is a commentary on environment and perception. I wanted to see how the venerable 1973 Nikkor 16mm f/3.5 fisheye would behave on the full-frame sensor of a Nikon D700. The result is a picture pulled to its edges, both optically and metaphorically. What this lens gives in distortion, it returns in expressive tension. The beach curves like the edge of a planet. The sky presses down as if it’s wrapping itself around the scene. A single line of debris cuts through the frame, pulling the eye toward a loosely gathered group of people, whose presence feels both…

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    A Silent Dialogue

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Bent

    April 21, 2014 /

    When I first lifted the camera to my eye for this shot, the Nikkor 16mm fisheye was not the lens you’d expect for such a pastoral, rolling landscape. Fisheyes, after all, are often the tools of cramped interiors, extreme sports, or deliberately surreal perspectives. Yet here, in the middle of vineyard country, I wanted to see what would happen if I let its inherent distortion play with the natural undulations of the hills. The result is a scene that feels almost elastic. The road on the right curves away more dramatically than it does in reality, while the vineyard rows tilt into an exaggerated arc, their geometry bending to the…

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    A stupid quarrell

    April 7, 2013

    Do Not Disturb the News Reader

    February 24, 2014

    London Panning

    December 30, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014 /

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