Category: Photo essays
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Close-up (detail) vs Long Shot (panorama) in Travel Photography
Abstractness may be a treasure cove for a stock photographer
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Naples’ busy architecture: i palazzi di Napoli
What is a «palazzo?» In Italian, we normally use the word «palazzo» to mean large, popular, apartment blocks. This kind of architecture does not exists in the Anglo-Saxon world and the literal translation «palace» would most often sound out of place. Yet, «palazzi» are large, often majestic, magnificent, often ancient, buildings, reserved for residential use,…
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Napoli and its old town: a short photo-essay
For my two-days trip in Napoli (Naples: I somehow dislike using the Anglo-Saxon name for this Italian town), the photographic gear choice was quite easy: I wanted light and unobtrusive. I went for an iPhone 5 and a Fuji X-T1 fitted with a Nikkor 50/1.2 lens. Although normally I like short tele lenses, I felt…
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Cars parked in the street
They may have travelled for miles, they may have come from the most disparate places, often very different from the ones where we see them: cars, parked in the streets, tell interesting stories when they are framed in their environment: stories made of contrasts, surprises, colours and cultural clashes. I have found them in the…
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Too many signs in Great Britain
Rules, regulations, do not, please do not, mind this, mind that. Well.
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A short walk in Newcastle with my Bronica SQ-A
It was August 2012 and all I had was my Bronica SQ-A with the Zenzanon 80/2.8 PS and Portra 400. These are just four photos from that day, but I think they capture some of the local mood.
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Una centrifuga per asciugare l’insalata e per creare sfondi astratti
Una centrifuga robusta, veloce, capiente è utilissima per asciugare l’insalata appena lavata. Oggi, mi è stata anche utile come soggetto fotografico. Grazie alla sua semi-trasparenza, un paio di luci Elinchrom (riflettori parabolici semplici, con bandiere) colorate di rosso e di blu e uno sfondo di carta nera, questa Oxo diventa molto fotogenica!
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Parked vans that tell the story of a life
These photos of parked land vehicles (camper vans, motor homes) tell (or, rather, let the viewer imagine) a whole life story, that of the owner. The photos are, technically, extremely simple, and just frame a detail, unconventional and unexpected, and present the things as they are and were in front of me, the photographer.
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Why are streetlamp so attractive?
Streetlamps present graphical as well luminous interest for photographers
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Tortelli maremmani al guardrail stradale
Casually, two recent photos of mine have a matching colour palette.
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