A lot of things are going on right now. The most important is the vote for the presidential elections in USA.Dear Americans, vote wisely so I can continue to work on my plans and keep my dreams. If not, I will have to switch to survival mode, exactly as my parents and grandparents did in…
The Covid anxiety is back. Media, here in Italy, push continuous news about the cases count and create panic. The numbers don’t add up, but who cares, all they care about is creating enough panic to justify the socialist government grab of power. In this environment I was thinking at the good old days when…
Tales and Tiles! What a difference between them! Never had back pain for a tale… . . . See you next week when the balcony will be done and I’ll have all the time possible to concentrate on tales instead of tiles!
Lately I made many videos talking about film photography and equipment. Thanks to that I had been asked, mostly by millenials, how to start with film photography. Here my answer. It is a little provocation but is exactly what I think. . . Let me know what you think.
Sometime we do something that can change our believes. In my case I was already discussing a lot about the use of digital photography, but this picture reinforced in me the idea that we have to stop to blindly follow the technical evolution and start to wonder if we made the right choice. . .…
Sometime a cheap plastic camera can be a lot of fun. This camera has character created by all the defects of a cheap camera put together! . . Here some images taken with Ilford HP5 and developer in Ilfotec HC. Click on them to enlarge. . . See you next time… perhaps with a little…
What to say… summer just ended! Ouch! . . See you next time when I will be over my end of summer sadness!
I had been asked many times why I still use film for some of my projects. Sometime the fact that I’m an old dinosaur was implied, but is not just that. The fact is that I really like film photography for many reasons and not just for the better aesthetic for some situations. Here my…
Are we losing the sense of beauty? . . The sense of beauty is what makes us human but we are forgetting that sometimes.
After my last video about the huge Pentax 67 I had some jokes, on social media, about the size of the camera and the probable need for compensation for other attributes. Being an Italian and having to defend an entire tradition and culture, I evaluated various options. At the end I decided to talk about…