With a 365 the photographer publicly takes the responsibility of taking and publishing one shot each of the 365 days which make a year. It’s a tough project, which forces consistency and dedication.
I wanted my 365 to be like a diary of my life and my ideas, so I needed a camera to always bring along, wherever I had to go, whatever I had to do. It wasn’t easy since quality and compactness are not exactly synonymous in digital photography.
Finally, for my thirty-third birthday I bought myself a Sony NEX-7, a great little professional system. With it I started my own 365 project (actually a 365+1 project, since 2012 is a leap year), which will end when I turn 34. I made the rule that every picture in the project must be taken with the NEX-7. Each photo gets published along with a short story on the project blog.
24 Oct
256/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/40, raw Living in a central area means living with all the services at walking distance. It means, for example, that if I get back from the office at seven I still have plenty of time to get […]
23 Oct
255/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander nokton 50mm f1.1 Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f1.8, 1/60, raw To beer or not to beer: that’s not really a question. Since living in the Netherlands, seeing a cold and damp beer turns me thirsty. It doesn’t work with all the beers, though, especially not with […]
22 Oct
254/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander nokton 50mm f1.1 Camera: NEX-7, ISO200, f1.4, 1/80, raw Tipsy and hungry, cooking and waiting, the daily shot still to take. Claudia is downstairs, putting Agata to sleep. I’m sipping my glass of Morellino di Scansano, stir frying the mushrooms, boiling the pasta. Black truffle […]
21 Oct
253/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO200, f2.8, 1/40, raw Il dolce far niente. One of my most beloved Italian idioms, literally “the sweetness of doing nothing”, that is, the art of enjoying one’s laziness by totally embracing it and enriching it with little pleasures. We […]
20 Oct
251/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO800, f2.5, 1/30, raw One of Claudia’s best friends recently moved with her husband and baby daughter to the Roman suburbs. They bought one of the houses of Giardini di Ottavia, a shiny new, american-style settlement. Today we went to […]
19 Oct
251/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO800, f4, 1/40, raw He was the real hero. We all knew that. He’s the one who took the responsibility to embrace his dark side when the Empire needed a charismatic commander to fight back the terrorists which were mining […]
18 Oct
250/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO200, f5.6, 1/80, raw A beautiful sunset of a beautiful day of a beautiful Autumn, in a beautiful park with a beautiful girl and her beautiful pregnancy. The place is the magical Villa Doria Pamphili, and girl, who’s well entered […]
17 Oct
249/265(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/30, raw Evenings are getting cold, but not enough to stop me from doing barbecues if I have guests for dinner. I love barbecues for a lot of reasons: they are quick to arrange, do not require me […]
16 Oct
248/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/30, raw I’m shutting down. I’m coming from almost sixty days of uninterrupted work and I feel like total shit. In the previous week I rationed the remaining energies so to have enough to shoot the Jewish wedding […]
15 Oct
247/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f11, 10s, raw The storm Cleopatra eventually arrived. In the last four days, the weather forecasts and the civil protection scared the shit out of Roman citizens with apocalyptic alerts regarding days and days of uninterrupted heavy rains. At […]