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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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    A Tribute to An Old Friend

    January 7, 2014

    Shooting the Shooter…

    February 12, 2013

    Guarding Democracy

    June 14, 2023
  • 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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    Via Collina, Empty, From Above

    September 13, 2014

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    A Seagull

    May 10, 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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    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013

    Waiting to Go Home

    December 21, 2013

    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    Servicing a Beretta 98FS

    October 13, 2019

    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013

    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018

    Will The iPhone Kill Traditional Cameras? Not Very

    October 15, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016

    One Coffee

    December 20, 2015

    Italy, Street-Photography and The Law – A Real Case

    October 3, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    The Modern Preacher

    November 14, 2016

    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013

    Dreaming Of Giulietta (sprint)

    September 24, 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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    Kite Surfers

    October 16, 2021

    Giorgio Pasotti – Racconti disumani@Teatro Marrucino

    February 28, 2022

    Emanuele Cavallucci. The New Italian Pro Boxing Welterweight Champion

    March 9, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    Selling Italian Ice in Boston

    March 11, 2025

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    A Smoker

    September 2, 2015

    Keep Out!

    November 30, 2019

    Lost Cellos

    August 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Shooting Kite Surfing

    September 22, 2024

    An Old Boxing Gym

    February 22, 2016

    Access Denied

    June 1, 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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    Pensive, On the Way Home

    November 28, 2014

    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 2013

    Alex Britti – Live@Cinema teatro Massimo – Pescara

    April 3, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Mind The Gap!

    July 5, 2014

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 1 – Kodak BW400CN – Dec. 2014 shot in June 2023

    July 21, 2023

    @Rome Maker Faire – 7. Mobile Rest

    October 23, 2014
  • 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 Athlete@Stadio Marmi, Rome

    October 11, 2018

    On Air

    July 22, 2014

    The TelcoMan

    January 26, 2015
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    The Google Experiment

    February 1, 2014

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013

    The Lost Battle

    January 11, 2014
  • 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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    Kite Surfing, Again

    February 19, 2017

    Diner After the Show

    July 7, 2013

    The Unintended March

    January 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    A Rural View

    December 8, 2014

    Underground Security RA(T)P

    June 5, 2015

    Different Loads

    June 23, 2015
  • 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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    One Shot Story – Soulless Places

    April 17, 2025

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 3 – Ilford HP5 400 – Dec. 2010 shot in August 2023

    August 30, 2023
  • 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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    The Expired Film Series – Episode 1 – Kodak BW400CN – Dec. 2014 shot in June 2023

    July 21, 2023

    Drying Clothes

    March 9, 2021

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013
  • 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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    Mid-Knee Clinch

    July 7, 2019

    Sailing Home

    October 4, 2023

    Tsutaya Bookstore@Ginza

    December 6, 2020
  • 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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    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014

    How to (Unconventionally) Shoot Track and Field Competitions

    July 30, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013 /

    … not sure.

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    Food For Thought

    September 14, 2014

    Shooting Kite Surfing

    September 22, 2024

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Wrestling, Italy vs France (And a primer on sport photography – Part 5)

    October 9, 2015
  • 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. I shot low to the ground, framing the chase diagonally to emphasise tension. The perspective lines draw the viewer forward, while reflections and shadow gradients anchor the movement. Technically, exposure was demanding: harsh daylight, reflective surfaces, and metallic tones required a slight underexposure to preserve highlights. The result holds texture without burning whites. Compositionally, I favoured asymmetry. The cars don’t sit in comfort; they slice through balance. It’s a study in velocity disguised as stillness. If I could refine it, I’d add micro-contrast in the midtones for depth in asphalt and chrome.…

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    What an Elegant Chocolatier!

    January 6, 2014

    A Contemporary-Art Installation?

    March 31, 2013

    Fujifilm X-T3 Video Cheat Sheet

    September 5, 2021
  • 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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    Outside the Nobel Museum

    June 30, 2016

    Wasted Shot Because iPhone 7 Poor Low-Light Handling

    January 22, 2019

    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016
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