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.
12 Jan
336/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f3.5, 1/50, raw Thirty days to the end of the project. Just one month. I can’t believe I made it so far, and I can’t believe so little is there left to see and say. The 365(+1) Days of […]
11 Jan
335/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f4, 1/60, raw When I was a teenager I used to feel like me and all the people around were some kind of fishes in a tank. All so busy in living the “real” life, like fishes are busy […]
10 Jan
334/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.8, 1/50, raw Dinner time seems to be the sole free time we get during these days. Sure, we have a few coffee breaks and lunch breaks during the meetings, but they get totally absorbed by skype-ing home (I […]
09 Jan
333/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/10, raw Eschede city center, restaurant De Tropen, at Bolwerkstraat. This is how my day ends, among the fellow scientists I’m involved in the European research project with. The guy in the “spotlight” is our great coordinator, young, […]
08 Jan
332/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/40, raw Bruxelles South train station. I just arrived from Rome, car plus plane plus train. My boss is waiting for me somewhere in the hall, but I take a few minutes to breath the cold air of […]
07 Jan
331/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/13, raw The fountain at Largo Ettore Rolli, just under my flat, is considered by many Romans to be one of the ugliest pieces of modern art our city has been wounded by. Now, it certainly isn’t particularly […]
06 Jan
330/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander nokton 50mm f1.1 Camera: NEX-7, ISO3200, f1.1, 1/80, raw Christmas holidays are over, and tomorrow will be the first day of my new life. As you may know I resigned from my permanent position as coordinator of the bioengineering unit of a big private research […]
05 Jan
329/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO800, f5.6, 1/80, raw Getting up early in the morning behind the wheel and driving for two hours and half straight through the mountains would have put me in all but a great mood if it wasn’t that: 1) I […]
04 Jan
328/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f8, 1/100, raw The tricky part about being at Pescocostanzo is leaving. Sometimes literally, like when we got stuck here due to a snow storm, others emotionally, like today, when we were supposed to drive back to Rome but […]
03 Jan
327/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/13, raw The night fell on Pescocostanzo together with a dense fog and a temperature drop. The roads suddenly froze in a thin and insidious layer of dark ice, the kind that doesn’t reflect light but rather absorbs […]