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essere giovani

Recentemente mi sono imbattuto in due cose meravigliose. La prima, una serie di foto scattate in Pakistan da un giovane, pluripremiato, fotografo, Muhammed Muheisen.

La seconda, un piccolo saggio di Marina Keegan, pieno di speranza, gioia di vivere e quel senso di fratellanza e comunità che si ha solo a …

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after a long pause

This is a short post just to let the readers know that I am ready to be back on track with some brand new content — and apologies for not being very active these past few months here or on my other channels like twitter or Google+.

I have been busy …

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A settembre 2013 ho fatto una presentazione delle mie foto al circolo fotografico di San Donato. Ero parte del circolo da un anno, e mi pareva una cosa da fare sia per contribuire alla vita del circolo, sia per mettere alla prova del pubblico alcune delle mie foto. L’obiettivo …

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A settembre 2013 ho fatto una presentazione delle mie foto al circolo fotografico di San Donato. Ero parte del circolo da un anno, e mi pareva una cosa da fare sia per contribuire alla vita del circolo, sia per mettere alla prova del pubblico alcune delle mie foto. L’obiettivo …

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Richard Koci Hernandez made this video asking if “mobile photography has made us more reliant on tools than on our eyes”:

Sometimes you can find smart youtube comments. For example this guy wrote:

Hernandez makes a valid point - the image shouldn’t be defined by the camera it’s captured …

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networked photography

I have always liked Craig Mod, since I read years ago his travelogue/review of the Panasonic GF1. He traveled to Himalaya, captured some great shot with this little camera, and wrote extensive and very well written thoughts about ‘gear’ — linking tech talk to excellent photography and interesting, deep commentary …

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stolen bikes and new bike

Last month two bikes were stolen from a certain garage in San Donato Milanese. Those were my mountain bikes; the garage, well that wasn’t mine1.

And it was dead easy to open the garage for these gentlemen. Not only did they steal my two most precious bikes, leaving …

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365 valentina

These are the days when everybody talks about their new year’s resolutions. I mean everybody in the english-speaking world, I don’t think that italians do this often — but this will change (or may already have changed) because we seem to follow, like sheep, everything that americans do.

And …

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branzino

In other words: good reasons to avoid using “Ph.D” and other titles appended to your email.

From an article on the New York Times about the latest Spider-Man movie (the one filmed by Marc Webb):

Gwen Stacy asks Peter Parker if he likes branzino: you know, “Like, the fish …

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file naming

File naming has always been a bit of an obsession for me. Recently, after seeing the proliferation of too many duplicate filenames in my photography folder, I decided to solve this problem once and for all.

Something to bear in mind: using programs like iPhoto or Lightroom or Aperture (also …

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