Category: Photo essays
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Mini (and other) cars found in the streets
I like to photograph reflections in car windscreens. Unintentionally, it seems that my eye has been attracted by Minis mostly. Urban cityscapes (English and Dutch) found their ways in my viewfinders, reflected in the polished paints. Film or digital, the result is in the following gallery. The images can be bought on iStockphoto by…
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Pasta e sardine
I would never recommend any lengthy pasta dish: I am lazy. And this is quick and easy, provided you have access to the right ingredients. It isn’t easy to find good, boneless and skinless sardines but, if you do, you can boil them, broken in small pieces, in the juice of one lemon, until this…
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England is the darkest country in the world
Often the vocabulary is just the heritage of the culture and the things surrounding us. For example, “pizza” is spelled the same in English and in Italian, yet it means two very different things such as a food by-product in the former language and a fantastic experience involving all the senses in the latter. It…
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Photos | The windows of Durham
Apart from looking around and eyeing the decrepit (oops… in need of restoration or house improvement) houses, what else can you do, when walking in Durham with a camera? The effects are picturesque and textured.
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Medicine (pills and capsules) on iStockphoto
On iStockphoto.com I have a small lightbox of medicinal capsules, pills, tablets.
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Ektar colour palette at the food fair in Durham
These photos (taken at the last Durham food fair) show, photographically speaking: that there is no substitute to Ektar to photograph food vividly and under plain light conditions that there is no substitute to the EF 70-200 IS f/4 to shoot indoor with a low-sensitivity film
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Some photos from 2011
In the year 2011 I have shot with a few cameras and placed my pictures in several places all over the web (flickr, iStock, my galleries here, etc.). I will try now to pick a few ones and put them in one place – here – trying to call them into categories (photos made with…
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Short extension tubes
The first instinct when buying extension tubes is “the longer, the better” because a longer extensions allows a bigger magnification. However, not all images require large magnification. I shot these two photos with two Nikkors, the 20/3.5 UD AI and the 50/1.2 AI-S on a Sony NEX-5. The theory says that if I extend a…
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Street photography on iStock
I have a small (growing?) collection of street photography images on iStock. What is street photography? Certainly not reportage! S.p. features people, photographed in candid (un-staged, unexpected) situations, in the streets and public places. Difficult to define in words, but easy to recognize. iStockphoto is not the place where you would look for these images,…
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Tombstones in England
I can’t ignore them. The English place their graveyard right in the middle of inhabited centres. They create interesting contrasts of ideas. I set up a lightbox on iStockphoto with several of such cases.
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Inverted sjoutrunz
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…