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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Vinyl Never Dies

    September 2, 2013 /

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    Intelligence Contest

    April 15, 2017

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013

    An outdoor theatre?

    January 31, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013 /

    Night work has its own silence, even when it’s loud. I made this frame just before the crowd arrived — a kind of photographic inhale before the push and pull of a Saturday night began. The doorman stands alone, his posture almost statuesque, braced against the neon wash of the venue’s lighting. The composition leans heavily on verticality. I intentionally let the figure anchor the centre, framed between structural elements and artificial glow. It’s an image of solitude and readiness, not action — and that contrast is what I wanted to preserve. The light is tough: mixed colour temperatures, harsh reflections, and flat backgrounds. But I didn’t correct it. It…

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    A sample of the Carl Zeiss Jena 135/F4 Sonnar and a Fuji X-T3

    February 5, 2023

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015

    Powermeters

    February 18, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013 /

    Sometimes, two subjects share a conversation without exchanging a word. In this case, the dialogue exists between man and stone — between the jogger, resting mid-route, and the towering marble column in front of him. The stillness of the sculpture contrasts with his barely contained energy, as though the pause is only temporary before motion resumes. The composition is anchored by geometry. The bollards form a rhythm across the foreground, pulling the eye toward the seated figure. The column rises almost dead-centre in the frame, lending a sense of vertical authority, while the urban backdrop — palms, apartments, the waiting truck — situates the scene in the ordinary present, far…

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    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013

    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024

    Siamese Boats On the Seine River

    June 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Sleep Wins

    August 30, 2013 /

    I found them in that fragile hour when night hasn’t fully given up and the day hasn’t quite claimed the streets. Two bodies slumped against a shuttered shopfront, graffiti curling behind them like a silent narrator. They weren’t staged, of course — this was simply where exhaustion decided to settle. With the Canon EOS-M paired to the EF-M 18–55, I had the flexibility to frame them in a way that gave space for the scene to breathe. The late light worked in my favour, sliding in at an angle that brought warmth to their skin tones while pulling texture from the cold metal behind them. The graffiti, soft enough not…

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    Forgotten Bike In A Forgotten House

    April 3, 2013

    Crowd Control At Dusk

    July 16, 2013

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    A Puff of Smoke

    August 29, 2013 /

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

    April 5, 2021

    A Maserati GranTurismo

    July 15, 2023

    Safe Living (?)

    July 28, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Bycicle Ride

    August 28, 2013 /

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    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013

    Small Talk

    February 10, 2014

    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013 /

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    Different Stories

    December 30, 2023

    We Make Cars, Not Videogames – An independent proof-of-concept in AI-made advertising

    February 21, 2026

    Where Are Skilifts Supposed to Be?

    January 7, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013 /

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    An Early Landscape Photography Attempts

    December 21, 2012

    Learning to Shoot Boxing Matches

    July 18, 2024

    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Pillars Of The Beach

    August 25, 2013 /

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    Photography and the Importance of a Proper Training

    April 23, 2024

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014

    London Panning

    December 30, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    The Lifeguard’s Tools

    August 24, 2013 /

    This image was taken on a humid Adriatic morning, before the sun had made its way through the marine haze. The beach is empty, save for the standard equipment of Italian stabilimenti: a stack of white plastic loungers, a faded parasol, and a time-worn pedalò parked like a stranded vessel waiting for a purpose it hasn’t had in years. The scene centres on a lifeguard, though not in the dramatic or muscular sense the word often evokes. He stands waist-deep in the still sea, just off a sign that likely warns swimmers of a drop-off or prohibited zone. His posture is unremarkable—calm, passive, perhaps resigned. And yet, that mundanity is…

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    Come on in…

    September 11, 2013

    A Boat Under The Bridge

    September 18, 2016

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Photography,  Thoughts

    The Nightmare

    August 23, 2013 /

    Last night, at what should have been an intimate tango exhibition, I was reminded how delicate the relationship between photographer, performer, and audience really is. It’s a balance of presence and discretion — a dance of our own, if you will — and when one party missteps, the whole atmosphere can falter. The image I took here is less about the aesthetics of tango than about an interruption to its magic. In the foreground stands a photographer, camera raised, entirely absorbed in his task. The moon glows softly above him, the darkness swallowing most of the scene, but it’s clear enough to see the intent concentration on his face. Off…

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    Hard Choice In Quai de la Corse

    March 21, 2014

    Iphone 15 Billboard in Via XX Settembre

    February 14, 2024

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Staring At The Infinite

    August 22, 2013 /

    Shot on a quiet coastline, this image started as a spontaneous exercise in balance and distance—two figures set against the immeasurable vastness of the sea. The horizon offered a natural axis, both dividing and uniting the sky and the water, while the couple, placed slightly off-centre, became the emotional anchor. I chose a moderate focal length to avoid exaggerating depth or flattening perspective. The intent was to render the vastness not as spectacle, but as presence—imposing yet still intimate. The sea is not in fury, nor calm; it simply is, stretching without end behind them. That’s the metaphor I was after. Compositionally, I leaned on symmetry without being rigid. The…

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    A Shadow

    July 24, 2014

    Hanging

    January 19, 2015

    The Stupidity of Being Stubborn

    August 31, 2024
  • Artists,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Photography,  Thoughts

    When The Passion Is Gone (thank to a sneaky photographer)

    August 21, 2013 /

    The close-up delivers a feeling of hot passion, as often tangueros do. But a wider view, including that sneaky photographer, kills the mood.

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    A Skull

    August 18, 2015

    Guest Are Welcome!

    December 1, 2014

    From Camera to Print…

    March 17, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013 /

    I took this on a Saturday night, tripod low, exposure long. The street was busy but silent—one of those moments when you hear the city breathe between footsteps and engines. She passed quickly, dressed for somewhere else, but the shutter stayed open just long enough to erase her features and leave only motion. She became a spectre. Legs firm, heels sharp, but the torso blurred into translucence. It wasn’t planned. I wanted to catch life, but what emerged was absence—graceful, flickering, unresolved. That duality between presence and erasure fascinated me. Compositionally, it’s a static stage: parked cars, rough bark, municipal geometry. The frame’s symmetry anchors the chaos of the motion…

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    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013

    Mid-Knee Clinch

    July 7, 2019

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Summer

    Saturday Night’s Ice Cream

    August 19, 2013 /

    This image was taken late one summer evening, in that quiet stretch after dinner but before the streets empty out. The man in the frame is devouring his ice cream like it’s the first proper moment he’s had to himself all day—elbows on knees, back curved forward, eyes fixed on the cone like it holds more than just pistachio and stracciatella. Technically speaking, the photograph is far from pristine. Handheld in low light with a slow shutter and high ISO, the noise creeps in and sharpness suffers. But I don’t mind that. Precision wasn’t the priority here. What I wanted was to capture a trace of stillness in motion, a…

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    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    Parallels & Diagonals

    December 21, 2012

    Seeking Directions – Where Do I Go From Here?

    September 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Parks,  People,  Summer

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013 /

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    Aficionados

    August 5, 2013

    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016

    Shooting Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)-like Events

    August 15, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013 /

    Anything, Anywhere…

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    Home on the Range

    May 17, 2015

    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024

    Nightlife

    June 20, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013 /

    It was the contrast that caught my eye. A man stands knee-deep in the Adriatic shallows, focused, precise, moving a small blue net through the water like he’s brushing dust off glass. He’s working under the shadow of a trabocco—a towering wooden fishing machine, all cables and beams, designed to drop massive nets and haul in fish by the hundreds. The kind of structure that speaks of industry, tradition, scale. But here he is. Alone. Shirtless. Waist-deep. Fishing by hand. The second frame pulls back. You see it all—the full span of the trabocco, its arms stretched wide like a maritime cathedral. And at the base, dwarfed by design, the same man…

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    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013 /

    It seems so.

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    Interplay

    December 22, 2016

    Tired or Fascinated?

    October 21, 2013

    The Lost Garage

    July 8, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Who Said That Music Is Relaxing?

    August 14, 2013 /

    Performance photography often leans on grand gestures—flying hair, dramatic spotlight, or an ecstatic soloist. I went in the opposite direction here, waiting for a moment of exhaustion rather than exaltation. The guitarist’s slumped posture, arm draped over his face, dissolves the illusion of effortless expression. It’s not stage fright or defeat—just the inescapable weight of presence. Shot from the stalls with a moderate telephoto, I aimed to compress the performer and his instrument, emphasising their closeness. The guitar, held tightly even in rest, becomes an extension of the body rather than a separate tool. The body language is loud, even if the room was likely hushed. I chose not to…

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    Raus

    May 12, 2013

    The Porter

    July 3, 2015

    Mooring The Boat

    July 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    The Sentinel

    August 13, 2013 /

    Though guys never rest.

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    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015

    Fast Call

    December 28, 2013

    5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)

    February 22, 2025
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Easy Parking

    August 12, 2013 /

    He wasn’t in a hurry. The light was sharp, late afternoon, cutting across the concrete pillar like a blade, and he took his time adjusting the bags on the handlebar. A pair of shorts, sandals, striped shirt — nothing out of place, nothing performative. A man and his bicycle in a pocket of shadow beneath an overpass, with the river just behind. I didn’t move, didn’t call out. Just raised the camera and took the frame. This is a photo built on tension between geometry and decay. The straight line of the railing, the vertical force of the pillar, the rhythm of the bridge in the background — all intersect…

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    A Priest Walking Through the Graffiti Streets

    October 19, 2019

    Glancing Books In A Brussels’Night

    November 12, 2015

    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Uncertainity

    August 11, 2013 /

    Photographs taken in urban dockside environments often carry a layered narrative—of industry meeting leisure, of movement paused, of a city’s arteries stretching both above and below the waterline. This image, with its juxtaposition of a small, worn boat in the foreground and the sweeping, multi-tiered bridges beyond, encapsulates that tension between the static and the dynamic. From a compositional perspective, the wooden railing in the foreground frames the lower half of the image, anchoring the scene and guiding the viewer’s gaze towards the boats. The man standing by the rail, casual in stance and attire, adds a human scale that balances the massive concrete structures above. His positioning—turned slightly away…

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    Tired or Fascinated?

    October 21, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 5 – Kodak Tri X 400 – September 2015 shot in Sept. 2023

    May 8, 2024

    Multiple Peripheral Visions

    February 10, 2016
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013 /

    Forced to stay still, caged behind a glass, while the world turns.

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    Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park

    June 6, 2018

    Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

    March 3, 2024

    Another attempt at DLSR film scanning

    January 21, 2023
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