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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013 /

    is it an oil painting, or is it for real?

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    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    A pouch for the Fuji XF 150-600

    May 16, 2023

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014
  • 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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    The Audience (Not a Rock Concert, Indeed)

    September 23, 2013

    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013
  • 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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    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law – Part Two

    February 23, 2014

    Powermeters

    February 18, 2023
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    The Drying Machine

    November 30, 2014

    Strolling in Stockholm

    July 4, 2016

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    Spectrum

    March 12, 2017

    Clandestine Seagull

    November 24, 2013

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013

    A Bad Experiment

    August 26, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    Photopanning in Rome

    December 3, 2019

    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014

    Sea Anemones Shot With A Cheap Kit

    August 20, 2014
  • 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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    Faces in the Façade: A Ghostly Smile in Stone

    November 15, 2014

    A few test shots with an MC Cosinon T200/4

    January 14, 2024

    Belgian Hats

    October 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014

    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    Dreaming of a Lancia Delta Martini…

    March 24, 2013

    A Hellish Look

    March 26, 2024

    Helios 40-2 85/1,5 and Fuji X-T5: a sample

    June 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016

    Mind The Step

    August 28, 2015
  • 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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    What an Elegant Chocolatier!

    January 6, 2014

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013

    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 12, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Nico Cilli Band Live@Città Sant’Angelo

    October 23, 2013

    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024
  • 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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    The Lost Battle

    January 11, 2014

    Different Loads

    June 23, 2015

    Lotus Tweak

    July 31, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    A Couple of Windows

    January 5, 2018

    Shrinking Knowledge Into A Small Brain

    July 24, 2018

    Hard Stare

    April 26, 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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    Cold Freezing Tour Through Oslo’s Fjord

    October 4, 2014

    Last Check Before The Show

    July 21, 2014

    Stand-up, Sugar!

    March 8, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    Night Serenade

    September 12, 2013

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013

    Lava Nails

    February 28, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Still Together

    April 20, 2013 /

    Still together, like the very first day. I saw them before they saw me — leaning slightly towards each other, their posture neither rigid nor slouched, but comfortably suspended in the shared gravity of the table between them. The wine glasses, half-filled with rosé, spoke of time already spent; the unopened bottle on the side suggested more still to come. From a compositional standpoint, I worked with the geometry of the setting — the square table, the vertical lines of the wall, and the quiet interruption of the stone column — to anchor the frame. The couple sit on opposite sides, yet the line of sight between them is unbroken,…

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    Viltrox AF85/1,8 II XF. Reflexless?

    April 2, 2021

    Justice Under Construction

    March 31, 2015

    Couples

    May 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    The missing guest

    April 19, 2013 /

    This image unfolded quietly, almost too politely — three men in jackets and ties sitting at a table clearly set for four. The elegance of the setup, from the pressed tablecloth to the carefully arranged centrepiece, clashes subtly with the anticipation suspended in their posture. Nobody makes eye contact. One reads the menu, the others look downward, pretending focus. The empty chair becomes the central subject without needing to move. Framing was tight on purpose. I let the olive oil bottle in the foreground stand, blurring into obscurity and giving some depth and texture to an otherwise sharply focused core. That slight intrusion also reinforces the perspective: I wasn’t part…

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    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013

    Waiting For A Customer To Come

    July 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Projects,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Shops

    Late-afternoon’s snack

    April 15, 2013 /

    …who knows what will be served for dinner?

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    A few test shots with an MC Cosinon T200/4

    January 14, 2024

    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    Waiting To Board At Santa Margherita Ligure

    August 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    An Old-Style ATM

    April 13, 2013 /

    This frame came together in the blink of an eye — or perhaps more accurately, in the blur of one. No carefully plotted composition, no tripod, no second chance. Just a brief exchange at a café counter: a plate extended, a hand offering payment, the warmth of human transaction before contactless cards made it all vanish into invisible transfers. The motion blur here is both the flaw and the essence. Technically speaking, the shutter speed was far too slow for handheld shooting in this kind of lighting, resulting in softness across the entire image. If sharpness were the sole measure of photographic merit, this would be an immediate reject. But…

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    Not A Photography Anymore

    September 22, 2014

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013

    Boats

    September 18, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013 /

    … not sure.

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    So Long, Eos-M

    January 17, 2014

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

    April 24, 2023

    A Frame Within a Frame Within a Frame

    April 23, 2023
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo

    The Urban Chase

    April 10, 2013 /

    Not all of the urban chases, involve a couple of Alfa 159 trying to catch an Aston Martin

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    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013

    Red Lock At Genova’s Dock Arsenal

    August 8, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    So what?

    April 9, 2013 /

    There is a certain energy in candid street photography that cannot be replicated in a controlled setting, and So What?captures it in full stride. This frame offers a slice of urban life in the late afternoon, when the sun hangs low and the streets teem with a mix of idle chatter, cigarette breaks, and casual posturing. The photograph hinges on the central figure—a tall man in sunglasses, cigarette poised mid-gesture—whose slight tilt of the head and half-smirk seem to issue the titular challenge. To his left, another man, hand to face and gaze averted, projects an entirely different mood: contemplative, perhaps guarded. The third figure, seen only from behind, forms…

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    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017

    Roman Break

    April 21, 2013

    A pouch for the Fuji XF 150-600

    May 16, 2023
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