I don’t really know I ended up in Usigliano (province of Pisa); I only know that it was at the end of a brief car tour across the landscape around
Category: Photography
English Bulldogs in 100mm focal length!
Perhaps, the Canon 100mm f/2 lens is one of the most underrated/overlooked lenses ever (as of today, I cannot even find it on sale on Amazon!). This is, for me,
Sony Alpha 7 II, Nikkor 50 / 1.2 AI-S, some crazy colours in Cenaia, province of Pisa
Much to my surprise – I didn’t know the area around Fauglia – Cenaia and its surrounding are a simply beautiful place to live in. The following pictures were all
the simple beauty of Fauglia, near Pisa
All these pictures derive from a couple of short walks in the simply beautiful town of Fauglia, not distant from Pisa. They were either shot with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera
Satirical graffiti
For each of these images, I combined a photograph with a text that was either scanned (pen and paper) or digitally inked.
ammemipiace il mare
Mi piace il mare ma… nessuno mi crede. Ecco qualche foto scattata con la mia Bronica SQ-A… al mare.
Holiday trip with Velvia: minimal?
For a working photographer, choosing the cameras and the lenses to pack for a holiday isn’t easy (the mere proximity of those two words should raise an alarm). The possibility
Riomaggiore with Portra 160
Riomaggiore is a pleasant town to visit. Since we are all sinners, we don’t deserve a pleasant, relaxing, tranquil walk wandering through the narrow picturesque streets… at least, this is
Ritratto di Alcamo (Trapani)
A presentation of some fine-art ready pictures that I took of a Sicilian town in the Summer of 2018
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
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
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
iPhone vs medium format
What happens when you compare the image taken with an iPhone with the one taken with a medium format camera!
Keywords for stock photos: clothes line, airing the laundry in the sun
How to keyword the laundry that is left outdoors to dry on a clothesline?
Shakespeare and stock photography
I’ve been trying to build up a portfolio of photos of pages where non-adjacent words would mean something together. These words were extracted from William Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare was not