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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Just A Cat

    June 29, 2014 /

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    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013

    Using a 1960 Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 on a Fuji X-T3

    April 5, 2021

    Walking Table in via Cornaggia

    March 22, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014 /

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    Urgent Calls Only

    May 15, 2017

    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014 /

    You can smell it before you hear it — the warm hum of beer, laughter, breath crystallising in the cold. This photo, taken in the backstreets of Brussels, isn’t a postcard of nightlife. It’s a sketch. Loose, fast, half in shadow. Which makes it all the more true. Cafés and pubs stack signs on top of each other like citations — Delirium, Floris Bar, Café, Pub, Garden. Every name lit, every door half-open, promising exactly what you need at this hour. But the terrace tables are empty, stacked in rows like punctuation marks between stories. It’s too cold to sit. Too late to be still. The people gather where the…

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    Sergey Krylov live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022

    A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper

    December 8, 2015

    The Solitude of Power

    May 6, 2018
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014 /

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    Bikers

    July 14, 2014

    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Unconvinced Listener

    June 25, 2014 /

    This was one of those shots where the scene composed itself. I didn’t need to move much—just recognise and release the shutter. What drew me in was the geometry of the interaction: a makeshift stage, oversaturated lighting washing the performers in synthetic blue, and in the foreground, a single man caught mid-gesture, possibly clapping, possibly holding a phone, or perhaps neither—his posture uncertain and unaligned with the music unfolding metres ahead. The band, framed neatly under the overhang of a modern tram stop, seems to exist in its own world, driven by rhythm, sequins, and stage light bravado. They’re working hard. But the man in the foreground? He’s not buying…

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    Through the Fog

    January 5, 2014

    A Cornhole Board – Independence Day Edition

    July 8, 2023

    Chasing the Runner

    October 6, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control,  Spring

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014 /

    Shot on a Leica M9 with a Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2.8, this image is more about suspension than action. The frame holds a waiting posture — literally and metaphorically. No speeches, no slogans, just the inertia of democratic process taking over the political machinery. I wanted to convey stillness without silence. The Biogon’s rendering gave me that microcontrast and edge clarity I rely on when details matter more than gestures. The M9 sensor — as unpredictable as it can be in mixed light — held together the tonal values well here, especially in the midtones. Shadow detail was secondary; this wasn’t about hiding or revealing, but about the unresolved pause…

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    Bicycle

    February 2, 2015

    Trespassed

    May 3, 2015

    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring,  Street Markets

    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014 /

    It doesn’t take much to make your day happy.

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    March 30, 2014

    A Weird Fujifilm Battery Issue for X-series cameras

    December 2, 2019

    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021

    Nick Beggs

    July 12, 2017
  • B&W,  Court,  Daily photo,  People

    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014 /

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    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014

    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Markets

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014 /

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati (and a primer on sport photography, part 6)

    October 13, 2015

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Junior (or, Cognitive Dissonance – Part Two)

    December 12, 2025

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013

    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015
  • Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014 /

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    Windows

    September 15, 2014

    Shooting Fast Alfa Romeo on a Race Track

    October 22, 2024

    A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

    December 21, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square One

    June 17, 2014 /

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    Modern Moai?

    October 10, 2023

    Empty Chairs in the Tuileries

    October 19, 2013

    The Traffic Controller

    November 20, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares

    Now You See It…Street Juggler at a Red Light in Barcelona

    June 16, 2014 /

    Caught this just as the traffic paused. The juggler—or maybe illusionist—stepped onto the zebra crossing like it was a stage, pulling a contact juggling sphere from his pocket with the same ease most reach for a cigarette. No microphone, no music, no hat on the ground. Just confidence, and a tight, silent routine aimed at no one and everyone. I shot from slightly above, which flattened the scene into layers: the motorcyclist on the left, the car breaking the frame in front, and the performer, suspended mid-gesture. The composition benefits from the crosswalk marks, which slice the image horizontally and echo the performer’s stance. It’s geometry meeting theatre. Technically, this…

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    The Choir Master

    December 24, 2016

    A Panorama

    December 30, 2014

    Toxic Waste in Open Air

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

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014 /

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    One Shot Story – Soulless Places

    April 17, 2025

    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    Waiting For A Customer To Come

    July 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus,  Paris,  People,  Spring,  Visual

    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014 /

    This was intentional. No missed autofocus, no technical glitch. I set the lens manually, focused nowhere, and waited for someone to walk into the blur. He did—carrying two bright yellow bags, dressed sharply but casually, perfectly unremarkable in the sharp world we expect from street photography. The concept was simple: remove clarity and see what remains. What I found was structure. Colour. Gait. Gesture. A kind of abstraction that doesn’t erase the human, just detaches it from identification. No face. No detail. But still a presence. Technically, the image defies critique by design. It isn’t sharp—at all. The highlights push into soft bloom, the street dissolves into haze, and the…

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    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016

    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Lost In Barcelona’s Beauty

    June 13, 2014 /

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    Waiting To Board

    February 4, 2013

    A Broken Gearwheel

    August 27, 2014

    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    The Lost Lock

    June 12, 2014 /

    The photograph is focused on the weathered surface of a wooden door, its grain worn deep by time and use. At the centre sits a latch, secured by a small brass pin, surrounded by the scars of previous fittings. Above it, oversized keyholes mark the door’s history of repairs and replacements, each shadow stretching long across the wood in the midday light. Technically, the image is about texture and shadow. The exposure favours the roughness of the timber, rendering every fissure and nail hole in sharp detail. The sunlight is strong, but instead of washing out the surface, it enhances contrast, pulling the metallic coldness of the lock against the…

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    Indifference

    July 5, 2015

    Whatever You Stand For, Vote!

    May 24, 2014

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Catching the Tube in Paris

    June 11, 2014 /

    Street photography often thrives on the interplay between the static and the fleeting, and this frame from Paris captures that balance with precision. The scene is anchored by the familiar visual cues of the city — the “METRO” sign, the Haussmannian stonework, the ordered chaos of bicycles, cafés, and traffic further down the street. These elements provide a stable architectural stage against which the human drama plays out. The blurred stride of the man crossing the frame injects the shot with movement and urgency, the sort of kinetic energy that turns a documentary image into a narrative one. His presence, slightly soft due to motion blur, contrasts sharply with the…

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    The Barber’s Routine

    July 19, 2013

    Carabinieri:To Serve And Protect

    February 8, 2016

    Plenty of Chairs in Via Veneto

    December 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  People,  Spring

    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014 /

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    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    Visual

    January 18, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Social Control,  Spring

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014 /

    Should you have some doubt, by reading the banner you can’t be mistaken. Clarity can be a virtue, even when it delivers its message with the blunt weight of inevitability. Here, a simple blue sign announces the location of the mortuary—not just once, but three times, in three languages. French, Latin, English. No ambiguity, no chance of misunderstanding. Just in case. The composition frames the sign against the muted greys of the surrounding architecture, a deliberate choice to strip away distractions. The words stand out, rendered in stark, functional typography, their neutrality belying the emotional weight of the place they indicate. Photography thrives on layers of meaning, and here the…

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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Handball Female Team (and a primer on sport photography, part 3)

    September 30, 2015

    After the Party

    December 16, 2013

    The Fisherman’s Knots

    February 11, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Ni État Ni Patron

    June 8, 2014 /

    Brussels. A quiet wall, a passing car, and a message that’s louder than both. The slogan is old—older than the paint used to scrawl it—Ni État Ni Patron. No state, no boss. A phrase that echoes from factories, barricades, pamphlets. And now, here it is again, on a half-covered stretch of rendered concrete. It wasn’t written to decorate. It was written to remain. The graffiti stands out not just for what it says, but for where it says it: in the middle of a freshly patched rectangle, painted over what was clearly another message before it. The wall becomes a palimpsest—layers of resistance, erasure, and return. Below it, a car…

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    The Argument

    December 27, 2012

    Blob

    January 4, 2014

    Accidental Precision

    February 12, 2016
  • B&W,  Bookstores,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Spring

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014 /

    Blessed be the city, where somebody can earn his day, by selling poetry.

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    Shooting Italian 5 birilli

    May 18, 2025

    Just A Phone Call – 1

    February 18, 2015

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Gates&Fences,  Past&Relics,  Social Control

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014 /

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    Should I Buy It? (Best Taken With an 85mm)

    January 23, 2016

    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022

    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020
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