Marco Venturini Autieri

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Author: Marco

  • Coffee, tea, infusions (caffé, té, tisane) at Flat White’s in Durham

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    Durham is not blessed with many good places for a coffee. However, provided we do not have ubiquity, just one good coffee bar should be enough. We have two! “Flat White” is a relatively new addition to the scene that would otherwise only include “Capriccio” under the deserved limelight. Although their choice of coffee may…

  • Inverted sjoutrunz

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    The sjoutrunz is a bodybuilding technique involving lifting leather briefcases filled with lead or other heavy material. The inverted sjoutrunz is a nasty variation of above. It was invented by Marco Venturini-Autieri while training with his sparring partner Seán. It consists of executing the sjoutrunz while hanging, upside-down, from an elevated bar, with the ankles…

  • from flickr

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    Elderflower Shade-of-Light posted a photo: Dried elderflower, submersed by water, infusing in a white cup. Digest powered by RSS Digest

  • English homes

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    Since 2003, I’ve been living in England. Not every year since, but almost, I have been photographing homes (English homes, more or less traditionally so), easily, just by going out for a walk. Coming, mostly, from Southampton and Durham, my pictures show the typically colourful homes of County Durham and the more sombre ones from…

  • A large collection of DVDs for stock photography

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    The iStockphoto editorial collection has a few images that I managed to create taking advantage of my large set of unintentional props: film DVDs, obviously all original, now ranging between 400 and 500… Most images were created with a SONY NEX. In some cases I tilted a 20mm to make use of a tilted plane…

  • The Tesco vanilla pod: transnational?

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    I have just bought one vanilla pod in a small jar, from Tesco. Funnily, it is a “produce of more than one Country”. Yet… one pod, it is just one pod.

  • It does make sense!

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  • Rejuvenating the perception of shaving brushes

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    I had the idea for this picture while thinking how to try and convince somebody that using shaving brush, shaving foam, and razor, is not necessarily stuff for old men. (Actually, I can’t really say that, because trying to explain with words an illogical process such as the birth of an idea is only an…

  • When the camera makes the picture

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    They say it’s not the camera, but the lens, that makes the picture. Especially with film, the camera is often irrelevant. Yet, this image taken in the Wharton Park could have hardly been done without the useful spot meter of my Contax 167MT. The rest was taken care of by the old Sonnar 135/2.8 with…

  • Camera bag for Bronica SQ?!

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    Surely I cannot expect manufacturers to create new bags for an old Bronica SQ system. Yet, I believe I found a a very good one to carry a bulky Bronica SQ-A, with a 150/4.0 + hood, a metered chimney viewfinder, and a 120 back, all mounted together, and still have a little bit of space…

  • Best CAPTCHA for photographers

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    I found only today the best CAPTCHA for photographers ever, on the forum registration of Manual Focus Lenses! You actually have to indicate which lenses are not Auto Focus. I say that this goes beyond the meaning of a “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, reaching probably the sophistication of…

  • Diverging paths

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    This image can be used to express going in two different directions: diverging opinions, parting, clash of ideas. At the same time, it’s basic design leads the mind to think of a down-to-Earth, unsophisticated approach, uncluttered by stunning visuals. Yes, I have just praised a picture for not being too-good!!! Sony NEX-5, Carl Zeiss Jena…