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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    PizzaPizza

    January 12, 2013 /

    I want a pizza!

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    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016

    Three Lamposts

    June 11, 2022

    Crowd Control At Dusk

    July 16, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013 /

    Should I Buy It?

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    Guarding Democracy

    June 14, 2023

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Humannequin

    January 10, 2013 /

    This frame was one of those taken on instinct—no tripod, no second thoughts, just a camera pointed through a pane of glass and a question forming even before I pressed the shutter: which one is the mannequin? The scene unfolds in a boutique window and interior where light, reflection, and posture blur the lines between display and presence. The mannequin on the right is dressed in earth tones, her boots absurdly plush, almost cartoonish. She’s poised with deliberate stillness, sculpted as expected. But it’s the figure just beyond her, partially obscured, that catches the eye. Upright, still, backlit—almost mimicking her. You could pass by and assume they’re both props, frozen…

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    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013

    Late Afternoon Workers

    December 23, 2013

    Killing Santa? Really?

    January 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Mind Your Business…

    January 9, 2013 /

    Paths that shall never cross.

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    Planetarium

    May 30, 2015

    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015

    Multitasking

    February 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Busy

    January 8, 2013 /

    Busy, taking her time…

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    Creativity vs Originality

    March 11, 2024

    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    When We Thought We Would Have Changed The World

    August 21, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013 /

    With a little help of the Fortune, even a non-sport camera proves to be good for (relatively) fast moving subjects.

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    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013

    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013

    An Old Lady in Great Shape

    September 23, 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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    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 8, 2016

    Coffee at Caffè Nero

    July 16, 2023

    Portrait of a Professional Pugilist. Davide De Lellis

    March 8, 2019
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013 /

    There is a certain stubbornness in going to the shore at night with a camera and expecting to bring something back other than disappointment. The sea, under moonlight, doesn’t offer you light so much as it withholds it, forcing you to work with the barest scraps. This image was taken under those conditions — no artificial illumination, only the moon high above, its reflection tearing a path across the water. I composed with the reflection as the spine of the frame, letting it run vertically to draw the viewer’s eye from the immediate foreground into the distant horizon. The exposure was a balancing act: enough to reveal the texture of…

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    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014

    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014
  • 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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    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014

    Has Street-Photography a limit?

    December 19, 2012

    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Purple Haze

    January 3, 2013 /

    Early on a winter morning a purple haze…

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    Canon EOS-M. Useless for Street-Photography

    March 28, 2013

    How to Shoot Stand-up Paddle Competitions

    April 29, 2024

    Tattoos in Barcelona

    August 18, 2014
  • 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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    Distraction

    April 6, 2016

    Spectrum

    March 12, 2017

    The Naughty Customer’s Place

    September 28, 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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    Inside the Palaces of Power – Bruxelles

    November 8, 2015

    Lunar Network Or Snowy Mountain?

    May 5, 2015

    A Young Sailor in Open Sea

    August 11, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Late

    December 31, 2012 /

    Late. Again. As ever…

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    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014

    Restaurant or Killing House?

    July 18, 2017

    Inside the Palaces of Power – Bruxelles

    November 8, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Thoughts

    Yet Another Dawn

    December 30, 2012 /

    Yet Another Dawn Picture. There is a snobbish attitude among “real-photographer” (those tough guys that know all about cameras, lenses, optics, chemistry, physics, hardware, software, journalism, fine-art, landscape, portrait and, finally, Leica – and that barely shot a frame or two once at year) that photo like this one shouldn’t be taken at all. If you need an exposure of a dawn – I’ve read on a website whose link I’ve lost – you’d better go to Google image. I disagree for two reasons: first: shooting is a personal need. If somebody feels like exposing a dawn, a sunset or whatever banal… well that’s matter to him and is none…

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    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016

    What Could I Do?

    April 18, 2016

    5 (random) frames of Bruxelles with a MIR-1B, a Pentax ME Super and a Kodak TMax400

    March 19, 2025
  • 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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    Portrait of a Master luthier

    October 26, 2013

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013

    Rectangles

    March 12, 2015
  • 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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    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020

    A Two-Masted Schooner

    October 25, 2014

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    The Argument

    December 27, 2012 /

    A fierce debate in a sunny winter day.

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    A Knitting Shop in Rovereto

    March 21, 2026

    Room 17 – VIXI

    March 27, 2015

    Italian Track&Field Championship 2018 – The reportage

    September 12, 2018
  • 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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    Cognitive Dissonance

    December 5, 2025

    The Last Journey Of An Hero of Italian Motoring

    March 7, 2021

    Welcome in the Twilight Zone

    January 3, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Footprints in the Snow

    December 25, 2012 /

    Footprints in the snow. A lonely path toward a journey in the mountains. I took this shot during a solitary walk across an off-season ski slope, where the infrastructure rests in suspended animation. The snow was untouched but for a single trail—mine—cutting through the soft silence. What drew me to stop and lift the camera wasn’t the cold or the scale of the landscape, but the purity of the composition: a line, a light source, and an expanse. Technically, the exposure required some compromise. Shooting directly into the sun flattens the highlights, but I wasn’t after tonal perfection. I wanted the viewer’s eye to follow the footprints without distraction, and…

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    Is The Sky Falling On Their Heads?

    August 1, 2013

    No, You Don’t Need To Change Your Glasses

    June 14, 2014

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021
  • 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 Kiss In The Shade

    March 17, 2013

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015

    Square One

    June 17, 2014
  • 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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    Too Late

    April 10, 2015

    What Lasts of a Saturday Night Party

    January 24, 2014

    Professional Courtesy

    March 4, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    My First Shot (With Purpose)

    December 22, 2012 /

    This is the very first shot I took with the conscious intention of “taking a photo.” No technical skill, no reading of manuals—just a camera, a chair abandoned in a field, and the instinct to frame it. I remember being fascinated by the contrast: the artificial shape of the chair dropped into a plot of neglected green, hemmed by broken walls. No narrative, just a question mark. I had no clue what I was doing. Exposure? Focus? Aperture? The camera was almost fully automatic, and I didn’t even think about composition rules. But the instinct to isolate the subject and centralise the frame kicked in, and so did a vague…

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    Fun

    November 12, 2014

    Asimo’s Ancestor@Tsukuba World1985 Expo

    June 30, 2018

    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects,  Summer

    A Silent Dialogue

    December 21, 2012 /

    A restrained coastal tableau built around stillness and separation. The seated figure is placed slightly right of centre, turned away from the viewer, which shifts emphasis from identity to gesture and mood. The backpack anchors the narrative as travel or pause, while its bulk balances the composition against the open sand. The scene is organised in three calm bands—foreground ripples of sand, a mid-ground strip of beach, and the softly textured sea beyond. This horizontal structure stabilises the frame and amplifies the contemplative register. A lone pigeon, small but sharply legible, introduces a secondary point of attention and a faint counter-rhythm to the figure’s inward focus. Colour is deliberately subdued:…

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    June 26, 2025

    Trial Docks Waiting for the Justice to Come

    April 21, 2015

    Waiting for a Future to Tell

    April 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Projects

    An Early Landscape Photography Attempts

    December 21, 2012 /

    The frame centres on a vivid orange butterfly, held in partial profile with its wings closed, set against a dense tangle of grasses and low scrub. The subject’s saturated colour provides an immediate point of emphasis, while the surrounding vegetation introduces a complex lattice of lines that both animates and competes with the focal point. A pale limestone rock occupies the right side as a strong compositional counterweight. Its softly lit surface and visible fissures add tactile interest and a clear tonal anchor, separating the butterfly’s warm hue from the busier greens and ochres behind. The diagonal stems and overlapping blades create a natural, slightly chaotic geometry that conveys a…

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    Lorenzo negli stadi

    July 11, 2013

    Sailing Home

    October 4, 2023

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    February 9, 2020
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