274/365 – “Metamorfoodist” nr.32, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO500, f/2.5, 1/80, raw Second day of “Night Walking”. Porta Portese, Rome, building of the Italian labor union “Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro” CGIL. Night walking alone is weird. For sure. As far as I walk straight, I […]
273/365 – “Night Walking” nr.1, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO2000, f/2.5, 1/80, raw First day of “Night Walking”. It was February 2012 when I started my first photoblog and my first 365 project with “365(+1) Days of NEX-7”. My life was totally different back then, different […]
213/365 – “Alien(ation)” nr.1, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO10000, f/3.2, 1/80, raw First day of “Alien(ation)”, the eighth theme of the “365 Days of RX1: one camera, one lens, twelve projects” blog. Technically this theme stays somewhere between “Doll’s House”, for the use of toys who […]
59/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.31, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO640, f/2.8, 1/80, raw This second month of the 365 Days of RX1 has passed, along with the first month of the pontiff of Pope Francesco. I has been quite an intense time, both for the Catholic […]
58/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.30, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/3.5, 1/640, raw Time to leave? It almost is, for me, time to leave the “Habemus Papam” theme and, with it, the sacred-side of Rome. These nuns aren’t probably leaving either Rome or the Pope, since […]
57/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.29, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/5.6, 1/400, raw Tens of thousands gathered today in Saint Peter’s square, under the warm and beautiful sun of the Roman spring, for the third General Audience of Pope Francesco. As usual, the Pope entrance is […]
56/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.28, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO3200, f/2.8, 1/80, raw A quiet, outrageously beautiful, basilica, the one of San Paolo Fuori le Mura (Saint Paul outside the walls). My favorite among the four papal basilicas. The one which, the next Sunday, is going […]
55/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.27, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/320, raw A (Southern)-Western European metropolis and capital city such as Rome should, in theory, represent that secular age the Western World is currently considered to be going through. And it surely is if you […]
54/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.26, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/800, raw It was a special Sunday for Pope Francesco, today. By finally celebrating the Mass at the most important of the four papal basilicas, the one of San Giovanni in Laterano (Saint John in […]
53/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.25, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/2000, raw, distortions corrected with PTLens To most of the tourists, Rome isn’t solely the city which hosts the Vatican and the Holy See, but also the capital of what was called the “Dolce Vita”, […]