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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Nagasaki,  People

    Nagasaki Biker

    February 13, 2024 /

    Sometimes carrying a camera with a slow autofocus, slow shutter and low ISO can be a hindrance. Had I had a better camera and a faster film, this photo would have been much better.However, it is the eye that is to blame, not the old Nikon 35TI. I realised too late that what I was looking at could have been an image and had to react within a few seconds. In those conditions, the camera did what it could, but if I had been aware of my surroundings, I would have been ready at the right moment. So I paid the price for my bad habit of relying on gear…

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    Dreaming of a Lancia Delta Martini…

    March 24, 2013

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021

    Vinyl Never Dies

    September 2, 2013
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Boston,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Tokyo

    As Seen on Ferrania Film’ Stories section…

    December 4, 2023 /

    A selection of the pictures I took this year in Boston and Tokyo has been published on the official Film Ferrania website, in the ‘Stories’ section.

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    What Lasts of Last Summer

    May 30, 2013

    How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

    July 30, 2024

    Italian Stardust

    April 6, 2015
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People

    On Photography and Self-Delusion

    September 4, 2022 /

    Only travelling abroad gets exotic photos. No need to travel overseas to get unusual images. Shoot digital is the only way ‘to stay in the moment’. Going retro with film is the only way to stay ‘in the moment’. Get the latest gear you can find. No, use the cheapest stuff because photography is about the man, not the machine. Do not post process, do post process. Shoot colour; no shoot B&W. Use Midformat, no full-frame, no APS-C, no smartphone-size sensors… The list of advice coming from (self-professed) experts, journalists (most often, web content editors with no editorial clearance), and ‘seasoned’ (wannabe) photographers could grow forever.More often than not, these…

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    Fishermen in Rome, Again

    November 5, 2013

    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    Black Cat

    October 31, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Raus

    May 12, 2013 /

    Unfortunately, this picture comes from the present…

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    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023

    Hard Worker

    February 9, 2014

    Suspicious

    December 2, 2014
  • 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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    When The Passion Is Gone (thank to a sneaky photographer)

    August 21, 2013

    A Roller Coaster… A Kind Of

    April 3, 2014

    Almost Spotted

    February 27, 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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    5 (random) frames of Bruxelles with a MIR-1B, a Pentax ME Super and a Kodak TMax400

    March 19, 2025

    An Inside Irongate

    February 26, 2014

    Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…

    July 17, 2019
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Tables and chairs, at night

    May 7, 2013 /

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    Lost

    July 13, 2015

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014

    Shooting a Roller Derby Bout

    November 19, 2024
  • 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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    Walking at Night, in Milan

    September 30, 2013

    Shrinking Knowledge

    July 24, 2018

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013 /

    Shot at Gardaland.

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    Saving the Boat

    December 11, 2013

    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    A Bubble In The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    A pouch for the Fuji XF 150-600

    May 16, 2023

    The Flying Dutchman… a sort of

    March 19, 2017

    The Road To Justice

    August 31, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Meeting on the board

    April 21, 2013 /

    Meeting on the board, waiting for the next passenger to arrive.

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    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013

    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Thoughts

    Foto-Grafo admitted to the Persol Reflex Edition contest

    April 16, 2013 /

    This photo has been accepted for the Persol Reflex Edition contest. I usually don’t like to participate in this kind of initiatives, but the appeal of the possibility to win a Leica M-E was too compelling!

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    Good Plan, Poor Execution

    December 15, 2019

    The Stare of a T800

    August 4, 2015

    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    As much as you’re far from home…

    April 5, 2013 /

    there will always be somebody who are more.

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    Action shot

    January 7, 2013

    The Choir Master

    December 24, 2016

    A manual-focus atteimpt on a moving target

    July 26, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    When the day is gone

    April 4, 2013 /

    … there are plenty of ways to still make a newspaper useful.

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    The Smoker’s Golden Rule

    July 9, 2013

    A Seagull in Rome

    June 28, 2013

    Meaningless

    November 9, 2013
  • B&W,  Cars&Bikes,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Forgotten bike

    April 3, 2013 /

    in a forgotten house.

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    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    Stairway to Hell

    January 9, 2022

    The Double Helix

    October 13, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    High-Tech Elder Care Tool

    April 2, 2013 /

    Rotten chairs for rotten people?

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    Hanging Clothes

    February 18, 2014

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017

    Phone Call – 2

    February 20, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Projects

    Climbing is hard

    March 25, 2013 /

    … not only when facing stairs.

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    The New Church

    May 13, 2014

    Stairway to Hell

    January 9, 2022

    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Tough Enough

    January 27, 2013 /

    A winter, sunny day in Rome, Tough men never freeze.

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    Under an Old Roof

    May 22, 2014

    Guess Who’s the Human?

    October 12, 2013

    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    Fireworks

    January 19, 2013 /

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    A Blue Vespa

    November 3, 2014

    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    A Dislodged Portal

    December 15, 2018
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    Visual

    January 18, 2013 /

    Pure Optical Effect

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    Just a Bench (or a Sacrificial Altar?)

    January 11, 2017

    Over There!

    May 29, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013 /

    Didn’t use any special camera settings. ISOs range from 800 to 3200.

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    Table Dressing

    July 15, 2015

    Portrait of a Law Professor (and Free Climber…)

    February 26, 2016

    Wasn’t He Supposed To Carry A Walther PPK?

    December 6, 2014

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