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  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014 /

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    The Smoker’s Golden Rule: A Coffee Always Calls a Cigarette

    July 9, 2013

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013

    Last Check Before the Start

    July 29, 2015
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014 /

    In a usually busy day, the bomberos enjoy a moment of relax.

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    The Real-Life Lens Test Series – Episode 1: Viltrox XF 56/1,4 AF

    June 6, 2024

    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016

    The Pulse of Passion: A Story Told in Red

    August 9, 2018
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  People,  Spring

    The New Church

    May 13, 2014 /

    In the XXIth Century, a new church grows, to satisfy old needs.

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    Bulbs

    January 12, 2015

    The Spectators

    August 19, 2017

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Travels

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014 /

    Airports are temples of waiting. They strip away the illusion of control, leaving travellers suspended in time between one place and another. In that in-between, people invent ways to cope. Here, in a lounge of muted reds and glassy daylight, a man folds himself into a private space. One leg drawn up, back curved, cap pulled low, he cradles a tablet as if it were a small book or a talisman. His fingers rest lightly on it, not tapping, not scrolling—just holding. The surrounding noise and movement dissolve in his stillness. This is meditation for the digital age. Not in a forest clearing or a candlelit room, but in an…

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    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013

    The Lost Hotel

    September 5, 2014

    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014 /

    Printing a 60by40cm image on a A1 roll (61cm wide) should be a pretty straightforward task: well, not on a printer like the HP Z3200. To cut the story, here are the settings: set your image landscape, and size it 60 by 40 cm, set your CANVAS size to 61,8 by 41 cm with a white background (highlighted in red, in the picture) so that the final image size is, indeed, 61,8 by 41, In the Print Settings menu select the Paper Size option and set a custom page size of 61 by 40,5, Again, in the Print Settings menu select the Margins/Layout menu and check the  Borderless radio button,…

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    Shrinking Knowledge Into A Small Brain

    July 24, 2018

    High-Tech Elder Care Tool

    April 2, 2013

    Wasubot. A Stiff Organ Player@Tsukuba

    June 21, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014 /

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    Servicing a Sig Sauer P226

    December 16, 2017

    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020

    The Power of Underexposing

    December 25, 2019
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    A Seagull

    May 10, 2021

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014

    Getting In The Zone Before the Shot

    November 28, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    Enough…

    March 2, 2013

    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

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    Shopping in Bruxelles

    December 20, 2013

    Man in Trenchcoat

    November 20, 2021

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Spring

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014 /

    There is something odd in this photo, isnt’it?

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    Fishing Shelter Under The Bridge

    September 4, 2014

    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014

    Late Afternoon Workers

    December 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    For Sale

    May 5, 2014 /

    Long gone is the time when people loved to live in the countryside

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    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013

    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018
  • B&W

    Protected: Black&White

    May 4, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    The Power of Music

    March 22, 2013

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014

    Three’s Company

    November 14, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013

    A Maserati GranTurismo

    July 15, 2023

    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014 /

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    Early Morning’s Cleanup

    July 21, 2013

    After Heat, Structure

    November 12, 2021

    The Pizza’s Journey

    June 12, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014 /

    Midnight still has to come. But in Bruxelles even ghosts wake up early… The air was damp, the pavement glistening faintly under the sodium lamps. I wasn’t chasing a scene — only watching light. Then someone walked through the frame, absorbed in their own path, and the moment shaped itself. The passer-by moved too quickly for the shutter speed I’d set. At first, I thought I’d lost the shot. Then, reviewing it, I realised that the blur was the picture — motion distilled into presence. The figure became anonymous, spectral, more gesture than person. It summed up urban life in that hour: everyone moving, no one quite seen.

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    Just Another Piccadilly Circus’ View

    September 20, 2016

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013

    Hey Mister!

    June 25, 2015
  • 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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    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014 /

    I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this line of turtles perched neatly along the log, each one angled just so to catch the warmth of the midday sun. It’s a scene that strips away the pop culture fantasy of katana-wielding reptiles and replaces it with something far more universal — the quiet pleasure of simply doing nothing. From a compositional standpoint, I did well to let the log form a natural leading line, drawing the viewer’s eye from the cluster on the left to the stragglers on the right. The surrounding foliage frames the scene nicely, adding depth and a touch of chaos to balance the orderly arrangement…

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    Under the Bridge

    November 6, 2013

    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024

    Inside a Lost Building

    February 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Urban Totem

    April 29, 2014 /

    Once upon a time, a totem helped the soul to get in touch with gods. Nowadays it helps the stomach to be fed.

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    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014

    Just a soccer field… Part 2

    February 4, 2014

    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    Fixing the ship

    August 18, 2021

    The Compelling Power of Photography

    September 22, 2022

    Welcome in the Twilight Zone

    January 3, 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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    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015

    The Relentless Lawyer

    February 6, 2017
  • 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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    Spectrum

    March 12, 2017

    Out Of Focus, Once More

    October 6, 2014

    The Way Out

    October 20, 2013
  • People

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014

    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016
  • 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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    The Changer — Glass Walls, Paper Smiles, and Currency Drained

    October 12, 2013

    A Puff of Smoke

    August 29, 2013

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013

    Aficionados

    August 5, 2013

    Portrait of a Law Professor (and Free Climber…)

    February 26, 2016
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