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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Busy

    January 8, 2013 /

    Busy, taking her time…

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    A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s

    February 4, 2016

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

    April 24, 2013

    Ni

    January 26, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013 /

    A man walks through a square as ever did, and ever will. In the meantime, the world changes.

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    Mandatory Photo Position

    August 3, 2019

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    ChitChat in a sunny day

    January 4, 2013 /

    I saw the two of them before I saw the light. They were already locked in conversation — not animated, but steady, the kind that only happens between people who’ve known each other for years. One leans back, hands in pockets, the other gesturing mid-sentence. Nothing theatrical, no drama. Just the architecture of ordinary talk. What made me lift the camera wasn’t them alone — it was the composition the shadows drew around them. The tree, out of frame, cast itself perfectly on the metal shutter behind. Two vertical lines from the trunk, branches spreading just above the heads. A stage set by sunlight. Geometry by accident. Technically, the exposure…

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    Processing DSLR-digitized film with and without Pentax K-1 Monochrome Custom Image profile

    April 30, 2023

    @ Mediterrean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Soccer Team (and a primer on sport-photography, part 4)

    October 3, 2015

    Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

    December 10, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Purple Haze

    January 3, 2013 /

    Early on a winter morning a purple haze…

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    Are you Sure?

    July 9, 2015

    A true friend

    March 29, 2013

    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013 /

    The light was brittle—thin, like the quiet that hangs in the streets after a long, noisy night. New Year’s celebrations had just emptied out, leaving behind a silence filled with expectation and leftover firecracker smoke. I didn’t plan this frame; I was out walking off the heaviness of the night before, camera slung under my coat, when I caught this rider coasting through the city’s near-emptiness. What struck me was the sheer casualness of it. No drama, no destination, just movement. The world still had the sleep in its eyes. The bike and rider sliced through the morning like punctuation—bare, direct. Technically, the exposure leaned toward the soft end. Shadows…

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    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016

    Hurry up and shut down the $%&? call!

    March 1, 2014

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Silent Among Many Voices

    January 1, 2013 /

    This photograph was taken inside a crowded bar, late afternoon, just as daylight began surrendering to the low amber of early evening. It was a warm space, socially speaking—laughter, conversation, the usual clatter of espresso cups and cutlery—but this particular moment stood out for its subtle, emotional dissonance. In the foreground, a young man leans against the table, eyes lowered, expression withdrawn. He’s physically close to others, yet mentally and emotionally absent from the shared space. That’s the tension I was drawn to: proximity without connection. The glass chair’s curvature frames him in a way that feels almost isolating, like a barrier—not physical, but psychological. From a compositional standpoint, I…

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    Zeiss ZK Planar T* 50mm F/1.4 – Test Shots and an Unpleasant Incident

    October 3, 2025

    Alfa (1750) … Dog

    July 25, 2015

    Ultras

    July 20, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Late

    December 31, 2012 /

    Late. Again. As ever…

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    A Ferrari 812 GTS in Boston

    July 14, 2023

    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012

    A Red Floating Crate

    February 15, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Disagreement

    December 29, 2012 /

    When dogs (like that) start yelling at you with no apparent reason, becoming a bum starts being an option…

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Beach Wrestlers

    October 21, 2015

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013

    Footprints in the Snow

    December 25, 2012
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Waiting for the match…

    December 28, 2012 /

    The scene is ordinary, but that’s precisely why I stopped. A teenager in full Givova kit, perched on a cold cement bench in a bare piazza, killing time before football training. A gym bag tagged “Città di Giulianova 1924” anchors the narrative—it tells us this isn’t just a kid hanging out. This is ritual, anticipation, part of the social choreography that surrounds grassroots sport in small Italian towns. Technically, it’s a straightforward frame, handheld and slightly imperfect—edges soft, shadows flat—but that rawness works here. The light is diffused under an overcast sky, producing a muted palette with little contrast. I let the saturation lean just enough to retain the plastic…

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    A Lamp

    November 14, 2015

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013

    Lost Bottles

    January 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    The Argument

    December 27, 2012 /

    A fierce debate in a sunny winter day.

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    An Essay on Light

    October 13, 2017

    Hard Stare

    April 26, 2016

    Waiting For A Customer To Come

    July 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Different Paths

    December 26, 2012 /

    Street photography has always fascinated me for its ability to compress fleeting moments into enduring visual narratives. In this image, taken on what appears to be a damp, overcast day, the photographer captures two figures heading in opposite directions — a man in the foreground walking towards the camera, his orange cap vivid against the muted palette, and a woman in the distance holding a bright orange umbrella. The composition cleverly plays on symmetry and divergence. While the subjects are positioned on opposite sides of the frame, they are visually connected through the repetition of colour — the cap and the umbrella forming two points of chromatic emphasis that immediately…

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    Inside The Clocktower

    August 22, 2015

    Who Is The Machine?

    August 5, 2019

    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    A solitary journey

    December 24, 2012 /

    A man just comes back from a solitary journey into the snow. He’s already missing the peace of the mountains.

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    A (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018

    Guess who’s happier?

    May 27, 2013

    Conversation

    September 14, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012 /

    A light rain covers a lonely car. A women, inside, is waiting for somebody that might never come.

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    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014

    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018
  • Street Photography,  Thoughts

    Has Street-Photography a limit?

    December 19, 2012 /

    Chasing the captain is a series of shots made in Venice (Italy) by Yanick Delafoge, a very good street-photographer whose website I visit almost daily. Chasing the captain is accompanied by an explanation of the circumstances that led to the shots and based on the assumption that the subject was, indeed, a Navy Officer. Thus, the whole mood of the comment was inspired by the suggestion coming from a soldier that crosses the calles’ of Venice. There is a small problem, though: the man portrayed in the photo is a chief petty officer – Capo di prima classe (you can guess it by the three-striped patch on is shoulder) and…

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    Fisherman’s Friend

    January 10, 2014

    Spumante (Italian Champagne) ready to fuel the party

    May 29, 2013

    The Traffic Controller

    November 20, 2013
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