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This post was somehow inspired by a conversation I had on the On Taking Pictures Google+ group¹. It was something I wanted to talk about for a long time.

I have always enjoyed linking a series of photographs into something more organic. The lonely (even if beautiful) photo does not satisfy my hunger, exactly like 50g of pasta are never enough for me. The excitement for getting a single good (or even excellent) shot is just too short-lived, it just feels to me like an isolated thing with no anchors.

Lo dico prima: questa non è una traduzione letterale del pezzo che ho scritto in inglese. Non sono un traduttore, e quando scrivo in inglese ho un certo vocabolario ed espressioni che mi vengono e che se mi mettessi a tradurre letteralmente in italiano farei delle schifezze. Questa cosa vale anche al contrario ovviamente. Questo il motivo per cui un sacco di miei post sono scritti o in inglese o in italiano; a seconda di come mi sento li scrivo in una lingua o l’altra e li lascio così. Questa volta però mi premeva esprimere il concetto sia in inglese che italiano.

It’s been more than a year since I moved to a Jekyll blog hosted on github. I think I have never been so productive in this period of time, despite having a much busier life both at work and off-work (Valentina is here and she’s here to stay! We have now trespassed the 15 months mark, if she was a car I’d say we have a looser engine now – and it shows from the way she runs and skettles; she is just unstoppable).

A fine ottobre 2013 Filippo, Amy e Gemma lasciano l’Italia e vanno in Norvegia.

Chissà quando torneranno a giocare assieme Valentina e Gemma.

Tutte le foto in alta risoluzione sono raccolte su questo fotoset di flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aadm/sets/72157638258040253/.

For an introduction to this little photo essay see Photographic Projects.

Un sabato mattina a Parma c’erano degli architetti al lavoro.

Nel frattempo, Valentina imparava il mestiere.

Arrivata l’ora della merenda, c’era da fare i conti con Spritz.

Negli stessi giorni, si narrava di una fantomatica Nikon digitale che faceva omaggio alle classiche reflex del passato — come questa Nikon FM2 con 28mm AI-s.

(Questa è una copia del post dal nome analogo che trovate appena prima; unica differenza è il trattamento tramite VSCO delle fotografie, a riprodurre il look della pellicola Fuji 800Z).

Un sabato mattina a Parma c’erano degli architetti al lavoro.

Negli stessi giorni, si narrava di una fantomatica Nikon digitale che faceva omaggio alle classiche reflex del passato — come questa Nikon FM2 con 28mm AI-s.

I went to Jordan in the middle of September 2013 for work and managed to take some photographs; this is a small selection (I have some more on flickr).

In the first section here I tried to capture the aura of the Dead Sea. I will have to go back someday and bring my family because swimming in those oily, salty, incredibly warm waters is truly an unreal and somehow magical experience.

Il 4 agosto Valentina ha compiuto un anno.

L’abbiamo festeggiato assieme ai soliti amici con cui abbiamo passato tanti altri momenti assieme:

Start here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19208480

The story is about Usain Bolt and the snapshots he has taken using a camera borrowed from one of the sports photographers following the Olympics. But this is not about Bolt, it’s about these ‘professional photographers’ that you see in this shot.

Even if some time has passed from the last Olympics, everybody remembers the scene: Bolt runs, Bolt wins, then he goes on to perform the self-celebratory track walk, closely followed by a pack of photographers shooting full-speed their big professional Nikon and Canon rigs.

There is a thin line that connects these photographs, but I also put a couple that I just enjoyed as they were (if only to stay true to my original intention of using these posts to display photographs that do not fit into a larger story).

Things I saw in Genova while walking around with Danilo, Daniele and Paola. All shots taken with a D600 and a 70-300 f/4.5-5.6. Other photographs here.

Street photography is real big now. All photographers do street photography. Everybody talks about it. But this is really getting on my nerves. I mean, these trivial shots of everyday life covered with fine-art pretensions given by a bland conversion to black and white – it’s really unnerving.

I am looking right now at 35mm Street, which is a very good example of this trend (for other similar examples just visit the countless examples of similar stuff on various Google+ groups or other similar venues).

It’s been years since I started using Google Calendar to keep track my sports activities. I guess there are countless apps to do this but all I needed is something basic that I can access from anywhere. Since I already have synced my iPhone with Google Calendar, I can basically enter data from wherever I am, even if there is no internet connection, and then have it synced back to my main repository on Google servers as soon as I’m back online.

Experimenting with interior shots. Il Montale, Parma (Nikon D600, 50mm f/1.4 AF).

The subtitle to today’s snaps refers to a special occasion that we celebrated cooking linguine (De Cecco, 7 minutes to make them ‘al dente’) con vongole.

I have been using iAccounts, a simple iPhone app to keep track of my passwords and other sensitive information, since 2011 (I also wrote a short note about it).

Recently David Pogue published an enthusiastic review of Dashlane; I tried it, got quickly pissed off because of the way it’s priced (sync between devices for a $30 annual fee? Are they nuts?), so what this review has done for me was only to renew my interest in finding a free, open-source alternative to keep my passwords.