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  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape

    When the parking’s lost

    May 16, 2013 /

    When the parking is lost, there’s only one solution.

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    A Zeppelin in The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014

    A Two-Masted Schooner

    October 25, 2014

    Taking-Off

    April 15, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013 /

    This is not an upcoming urban riot. Just a soccer match…

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    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019

    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014

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

    March 1, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014

    So what?

    April 9, 2013

    Sideways Through the Tunnel

    April 5, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022

    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014

    Arrested Behind the Door

    March 29, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Raus

    May 12, 2013 /

    I took this photograph on a quiet street where the stillness of the scene clashed violently with the venom of the message sprayed across the wall. The phrase, written in crude, hurried strokes, is not a remnant from some distant, darker chapter of history but a fresh reminder that intolerance continues to thrive. The frame is stripped of distraction: a textured wall, a single small window with broken panes, and the shadow of a streetlamp reaching across the surface. The composition leans heavily on the tension between emptiness and statement. Placing the graffiti off-centre allows the cracked window to act as a counterweight, both visually and metaphorically—two forms of damage,…

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    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014

    A Composition’s Dilemma in Black and White

    February 18, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    Macarons. Again

    October 23, 2015

    DSLR film scanning: episode three

    January 24, 2023

    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013 /

    There’s a kind of quiet tension in the way they lean against the wall. No people in sight. No instruments visible. Just the outlines of music, sleeping inside their forms. As a photographer, that’s the kind of silence you try to listen to. The room was dark, lit only from one side. The light caught the curve of one case and slipped off the edge of the other. Texture came forward. Shape. Memory. You could almost hear the faint creak of clasps, the echo of strings long since gone quiet. Sometimes the most expressive shots come when nothing is happening. No performance, no sound—just the pause in between. These cases…

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    A perfect match

    February 1, 2013

    Kudos to Ricoh

    February 8, 2013

    Pipeline

    February 13, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013 /

    A dress and a bag waiting to be sold. Will the party ever take place?

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    In the Rain, A Helping Hand

    July 10, 2019

    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    Three Shadows

    November 11, 2016

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Tables and Chairs, at Night

    May 7, 2013 /

    I was drawn to the repetition in this scene — a narrow path lined with tables and chairs, each set lit by a pool of light from the wall-mounted lamps. The rain had just stopped, and the wet stone reflected the glow, creating a subtle tonal contrast that runs like a silver ribbon through the composition. I chose to frame it at an angle that emphasises the recession into darkness, the line of tables pulling the viewer’s eye deeper into the image. The rhythm is regular but not mechanical; the slight variations in chair placement and the occasional break in symmetry prevent it from feeling sterile. The lamps provide natural…

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    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013

    Killing Santa? Really?

    January 25, 2013

    Happy New Year

    January 1, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013 /

    Countless photos like that have been shot. But enjoying a good moment together always deserves to be recorded

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    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014

    On Air

    July 22, 2014

    Bent

    April 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Kudos to Ricoh

    February 8, 2013

    Carl Zeiss Ultron 50/1,8 and Pentax K1 – An Empirical Field Test

    February 11, 2026

    Spectrum

    March 12, 2017
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013 /

    They look innocent enough — two soft, shapeless seats next to a rattan table, tucked under a wall in some coastal bar. But the title gives it away: Fracchia’s Chairs. And if you know the name, you know exactly what kind of scene this is. Giandomenico Fracchia, as played by Paolo Villaggio in the 1970s, was the tragicomic soul of bureaucratic Italy: servile, stammering, utterly at the mercy of authority. There’s a legendary sketch in which he’s being questioned by his boss — unable to sit still on a chair so round and formless it’s practically a trap. And here it is again, reimagined in polyurethane and branded with Nastro Azzurro. The…

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    Misfocused Photo’s Quick Fix with ChatGPT and Nano Banana

    March 1, 2026

    Friends

    August 3, 2014

    The Angel Maker

    February 25, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    A stupid quarrell

    April 7, 2013

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017

    She Died Alone

    February 15, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    The Referees

    June 6, 2013

    UnortORTOdox (Ferrania)

    July 22, 2023

    A Great Marketing Stunt

    May 27, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013 /

    A theme park is engineered to feel frictionless: queues are managed, routes are channelled, behaviour is gently scripted. In this photograph made at Gardaland on Lake Garda that engineering is rendered with an unvarnished literalness. The frame isolates a small assemblage of infrastructure: a CCTV camera, a public-address speaker, and a utilitarian lighting unit, all bolted to a rough stone surface.

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    Balilla

    July 17, 2015

    Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola@Teatro Marrucino

    December 13, 2024

    Yet Another Tokyo Tower Nightshot

    July 27, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Streets&Squares

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013 /

    less than twenty years have gone, and a telephone boot looks like a relic from the Stone Age.

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    UnortORTOdox (Ferrania)

    July 22, 2023

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014

    Hard Worker

    February 9, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    A Moto Guzzi Falcone and an Expired Kodak Portra 160 Roll

    October 25, 2025

    The Road To Justice

    August 31, 2014

    The sentinel…

    March 8, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013 /

    Why can’t I enjoy my soccer team’s match instead of wasting my time here? Because my wife loves music…

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    An Altar for the Propaganda Machine

    November 17, 2013

    The Referees

    June 6, 2013

    A Pensive Nun

    December 14, 2016
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    Gravity on Pause

    September 5, 2025

    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013

    A Vessel

    December 18, 2015

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013 /

    Shot the morning after a wet December night, this scene is an unfiltered inventory of what remains once the bodies disperse. Three bottles—two upright, one half-tucked behind an iron gate—stand in for the absent crowd. There’s no music left, no voices, no movement. Just rust, grime, and the fragile persistence of glass. I framed the shot to keep the human presence implied but never visible. The steps lead nowhere, the iron gate is firmly shut, and the graffiti—hastily sprayed in orange—reads only “KR”, ambiguous and unresolved. That felt important. The story here is incomplete by design. It invites conjecture, not clarity. Technically, this is a study in texture. The marble…

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    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015

    A creative approach to zone focusing with superfast manual lenses and mirrorless cameras in street photography

    September 28, 2024

    When Venus Meets the Moon

    October 2, 2023
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

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

    April 24, 2013 /

    You don’t photograph a legend. You try not to get in the way. This frame is all rhythm, no fanfare. No face, no spotlight—just hands, sticks, cymbals, and breath held between beats. It’s Horacio “El Negro” Hernández in concert, but not in the way the audience sees him. This is closer. Quieter. The private side of percussion. Shot just beneath the hi-hat, I framed the photo to let the hand speak: fingers curled not in tension, but in dialogue. The skin slightly worn, the grip half-visible—mid-phrase, mid-flow. The cymbals catch the stage light like the faintest of brushstrokes, shimmering but not stealing the scene. You can feel the groove here.…

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    Kite Surfers

    October 16, 2021

    Busy

    January 8, 2013

    UnortORTOdox (Ferrania)

    July 22, 2023
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    Padua, a photographer’s goldmine

    October 31, 2024

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014
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