This year my message is very simple: don’t forget the real meaning of Christmas and don’t be afraid to celebrate it properly. Most of all, don’t be afraid to make the right moral choices all year.

Decorations, lunches, dinners, gift and so on are meant to be a celebration for the essence of Christmas but if you forget it, all the lights, food and money will never bring the real joy in your hart.

I wish you all a blessed Christmas full of joy and goodness.

For the technically curious followers this year imaged required:

1 Hi-Fi stereo system

1 Bach’s Christmas Oratorio CD

1 Glass of Lagavulin Scotch while listening

1 8×10 Cambo Legend viewcamera with a Schneider 300mm

1 4×5 Cambo MAsterPlus viewcamera with a Schneider 150mm

1 Hasselblad 503 cx with 80mm and extension tubes.

1 Pentax Mz-s with the 100mm macro

1 6×7 adapter for the 4×5 camera

1 Pentax K1 mkII with a Takumar 55mm 1.8 for the final image

5 film formats Ilford FP4

1l ID-11 developer

200cc Ilford Hypam

5 developing session in the darkroom

2 Broncolor Grafit A generators

3 Broncolor Pulso flah heads

~10 playing of a Christmas Jazz CD while creating the photograph

Going digital I converted a Fujifilm XPro-1 to infrared with a 720nm filter. It was not an easy process to make the conversion but was a lot of fun.
Infrared can convert familiar places in something new and stimulate the brain to get out of the habits and see in a different way.

In this book, Boves, the little Italian town where I live seen in Infrared!

I participated with a series of images dedicated to the Italian life style. I chose to submit images showing the real life style, far from the crowded touristic spots where the landscape had been already modified to accommodate the expectations of the tourists.

I preferred to show real people in places where the soul of Italy is still present. Some places are little paradises, other urban environments affected by the decadence of the last years but all are still genuine.

Obviously the award is for images made with analog technologies. In this case all the images were realized on Ilford FP4 film with a Zeiss Ikonta from the 1930s.

Enjoy the pictures and check the Award page at www.analogsparksawards.com

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You can now, easily from the comfort of your home, buy some of my prints.

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Explore the collection and find the perfect piece to elevate your home or office.

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Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2025 full of justice, freedom of speech and pruning of the governments’ trees!

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Christmas is the time to give what we have most precious. There was a time when gold, incense, and myrrh were rare, precious and essential in both their practical and spiritual nature. They were used to recognize the essence of Christ and the effort, choices and sacrifices we need to do each day to travel our life toward the Good.

In the modern times, where the world seems dominated by a diffuse evil stupidity, the most rare, precious and essential gifts we need to give are justice, freedom and a fight to limit the growing cancer of totalitarian governments.

The Wise Men showed us the way to make the world a much better place, where each of us is an equal son of the Lord, just by recognizing the daily choice between Good and Evil.

Every day we have to choose if we want to please Herod to have a semblance of power or if we want to honor Christ and have the long term goal of a better world for every human being, ourselves included.

Sometime is not easy to understand the direction we have to take but when on one side there is Herod, a king ready to kill or harm kids to not loose his power, censoring free speech, attempting to kill his opponents and growing exponentially the tentacles of his bureaucratic control, it is easy to see the path we have to take.

We chose the other side, the one representing justice, freedom and limited powers. May the Lord give to our modern Magi the force to pursue the Good in every choice they will have to make!

May the New Year bring us the freedom to produce, the peace needed to trade our products and a bright future of discoveries and great choices!

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If you are curious to see how I created the image, just check the video here!

noun

ˈzēn 

Synonyms of zine

: magazine

especially: a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter

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I decided to publish a Zine… a trendy name for a non periodical magazine. It’s a nice way to share my printed pictures without the high costs of traditional book.

You can buy it here on Blurb directly.

It’s just 11.11 Euros or ~$13 with a good print quality. A great way to enjoy my pictures printed.

The first issue is dedicated to the square format, a format I used a lot and really like.

If you want to know more, watch the video and get a copy.

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Stay tuned for the next issue!

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A project that helped me stay alive in this crazy world.

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I hope you enjoyed it, now is time for me for some postpartum depression and I will be back in January with other projects to share with you.

First, check is website ‘case is worth. Second, he suggested me a book: Code Zero by Marc Elsberg. A very intriguing book and the inspiration for this Tale.

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Two more weeks to go…

A week that made me think how we arrived at the use of atomic bombs to stop a war after more than 60 millions casualties. What was the point of no return that brought the world to the tragedy of a world war?

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See you next time and we will see if we will go past the pint of no return or we will be smarter than our ancestors!

Another week and another meditation about the freedom we are losing.

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See you next week!