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Flickr: I had a nostalgic yearning for a place of my childhood I had not gone back to in years…I found Flickr and I saw it again in summer, and in autumn, and in winter, I saw it at night and at sunrise and I saw it through many different eyes…

In life and photography I like colors an i like neutrals, I love light and I love dark shades. I like strong architectural geometries, but I also like soft natural forms.

My photos are for the most part just as I download them from my camera. No photoshopping or editing. I like the freshness of the first impression and the magic of the accidental. I dislike the contrived and disingenuous.
So, "what you see is what you get" or better: "what you get is what I saw".


Marco enters a city: he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man's place. If he had stopped in time, long ago; or if, long ago, at a crossroads, instead of taking one road he had taken the opposite one, and after long wandering he had come to be in the place of that man in that square.
By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps that had been a possible future of his and is now someone else's present...
..."Journeys to relive your past?" was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: "Journeys to recover your future?" And Marco's answer was: "elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have." Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities