23.01.12 ...New Year Day
According to the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Dragon begins today
21.12.11 ...Coding
Latest redesign of my website lasted almost four years: it was built around a very flexible frame. Its flash-free evolution is rolling out today. Enjoy!
15.08.11 ...Donkey's Years
Beaches are so crowded today that humans tryng to sunbathing are sandbathed by their random neighbours.
24.07.11 ...Arugula
"...small restaurants three tables wide and four chandeliers deep, with decor and menus that have changed hardly at all since before arugula was discovered... "
Roth, American Pastoral
04.03.11 ...Winter night
Give me a pair of snowshoes, a dear friend to walk with and stars enough to show the track
11.11.10 ...The whale
"If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great whales."
from Moby Dick, Extracts (Supplied by a sub-sub-librarian)
21.10.10 ...Italy
...or the banquet of democracy (even Spiderman could not save us from ourselves, I fear)
24.08.10 ...They really like it
The guys over at Hasselblad Owners’ Club seem to really like one of my shots: it is among the 10 most popular images of the month for the second time in less than six months! Here is another shot from the same session.
17.08.10 ...Beedies
Far from being a regular smoker, from time to time (basically when I can find them) I indulge in beedies, the Indian "cigarettes" rolled in tendu leaves. A pack of 20 (as this 501 Mangalore Ganesh beedies) sells for about 5 rupees (less than 10 Euro cents). A tendu leaf picker earns 1 rupee every 50 leaves he collects...
07.07.10 ...Notebook light
Turn your notebook on and turn it into a 15,4" soft light...
09.06.10 ...In Trentino
...it’s that time of the year when, in meadows, there are more flowers than tourists...
08.04.10 ...Number 5
Some time ago I joined the Hasselblad Owner Club and then almost forgot about it. Now it seems that I am halfway amidst the “10 most popular Hasselblad photographers” of March, according to other members’ votes. Cool!