Author: Marco
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Relax and meditate
Asking a meditation app to help you relax is like asking the executioner to scratch the itch on your neck.
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Travelling on a ship in Italy with your dog
A short guide to travel onboard Grandi Navi Veloci and Grimaldi Lines in Italy with a dog
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Riomaggiore in Cinqueterre
There isn’t much to see in Riomaggiore, but what is there, is really nice and worth the visit. Getting there by train is basically compulsory. The only pleasant alternative would be by foot from another of the nearby coastal towns belonging to the Cibqueterre strip of land. For my first trip there, I carried my…
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Ritratto di Alcamo (Trapani)
A presentation of some fine-art ready pictures that I took of a Sicilian town in the Summer of 2018
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No country for old dogs
I live near Pisa and more often than not I meet dog owners who tell me their stories of how they saved a dog coming from – inevitably – some region in the South of Italy, chiefly Sicily and Puglia, where dogs are easily abandoned at the occurrence of a problem that is difficult or…
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Photographing Vernazza, Cinqueterre
An Italian town without Italians If you try and visit Vernazza, as I did in late May 2019, during an overcast day when rain was forecast, you might end up finding yourself in a small village overlooking the sea, crowded with foreign tourists, without any Italians in sight except for those who work there. Why…
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I became a graffiti artist!
Anyone who has ever submitted photos to iStock knows that they are a little… picky about what is or may be art. Any scratch or a drop of paint on a wall can be considered graffiti art. Better not to photograph it or, just in case, clone it out. So, I had an idea: what…
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How to blur the background of a portrait taken with a single lens iPhone
You just need a Live Photo. Take your selfie while you are spinning. Then, amongst the Live Photos effects, choose Long Exposure. This is what you’ll get!
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Film photography on Mt Abetone
A few notes on Mt Abetone in Tuscany, perhaps useful if you want to visit it, together with some photos I took with a film camera
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Abstract multicoloured backgrounds
I shone a torch in a crystal cup, multifaceted, and captured the scene with a camera without lens. This is the gist of what I did to create some colourful abstract backgrounds. Of course I digitally manipulated the RAW files ad nauseam in ways that I will perhaps detail in another post. The whole collection is available…
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iPhone vs medium format
What happens when you compare the image taken with an iPhone with the one taken with a medium format camera!