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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013 /

    Trying to run faster than its shadow.

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    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014

    A (Soon) Lost Banner

    November 1, 2018

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Who’s Carrying Who?

    February 28, 2013 /

    When I spotted the man hauling this enormous red buoy, I didn’t hesitate. The irony was irresistible—a question of balance, effort, absurdity, and metaphor all in one frame. The netted lines clinging to his shoulders mirrored the posture of a beast of burden, and yet the visual punchline lands clearly: who’s really pulling whom? I shot from above, not just for vantage but to strip away all unnecessary background clutter. By doing so, I let the geometry speak. The diagonal created by the rope lines contrasts with the rigid, blocky paving and soft curve of the buoy. It’s a clean visual split, but not sterile. There’s dirt, grit, marks of…

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    Ready for lunch

    September 2, 2014

    The Audience (Not a Rock Concert, Indeed)

    September 23, 2013

    Ten Years Ago

    December 22, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    The Businessman…

    February 9, 2013

    Wrecked Ship

    November 23, 2013

    Life is a bitch

    May 22, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    Get Ready for The Duty

    July 13, 2013

    @Rome Maker Faire – 4. The Hands Controller

    October 16, 2014

    Bless or Curse?

    August 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    A Shadow

    July 24, 2014

    Aficionados

    August 5, 2013

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013 /

    …left for somebody to come, or hidden by someone who just left?

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    Histoire d’O

    November 11, 2014

    Comarketing

    October 10, 2019

    The Quest for Belgian Chocolate…

    April 11, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Generations

    February 5, 2013 /

    Generation after generation, the passion for the photography always lasts.

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    The Call

    March 4, 2014

    Iphone 15 Billboard in Via XX Settembre

    February 14, 2024

    Billiard On The Field

    November 2, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    An Abandoned Book…

    January 28, 2013 /

    When I came across this scene, it struck me immediately as a still-life already composed by chance. There, on the coarse, sun-warmed pavement of a dock, lay a copy of Il Marchese di Villemer, its painted cover portrait staring off to the right with aristocratic detachment. A torn scrap of red foil—perhaps once wrapping for a sweet—sat nearby, an almost absurd counterpoint to the book’s refined image. From a compositional standpoint, the photograph is anchored by the bold horizontal yellow line running across the frame. This not only divides the image but also provides a visual base upon which the book rests. The warm tones of the line complement the…

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    Different Paths

    December 26, 2012

    The Sentinel

    August 13, 2013

    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016
  • 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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    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Beach Wrestlers

    October 21, 2015

    The Observer

    November 30, 2013

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