The book can be previewed and bought here on Blurb.

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I kept the book very simple, with a short version of the tales and just location and camera used for each picture.

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See you with the new projects…

This image was taken in the same place and with the same subject as the Black and White Tale #1. Around 35 years between the 2 images and a lot of similarities and differences!

The image is a part of a project you can see here , about Giulianova harbor .

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See you next week for the conclusion of the project!

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“That violence is not practical. If my fellow men believe that the force of the combined tonnage of their muscles is a practical means to rule me — let them learn the outcome of a contest in which there’s nothing but brute force on one side, and force ruled by a mind, on the other.”
Ragnar Danneskjold – from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

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See you next time… if David will stand!

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If you are COVID afraid to travel by airplane, check here the video by Mentourpilot, I mention in my tale. Very informative!

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See you next time!

The fight against Covid is not just a medical fight but a political one. To make mistakes in communication at this moment is perhaps more dangerous in the long term than making medical mistakes.

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See you the next time!

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Every day we are losing some more freedom and giving more power to the government to keep us “safe” from a virus.

Every day I look around and I see the danger of bureaucratic choices, taken without any flexibility or judgment, imposed upon the people.

People protesting or simply expressing an opinion not conforming with the government, are censored from the traditional or social media and fined for their respectful protests.

Few days ago in Milan, the owners of restaurants protested peacefully against the lock-down. The protester were fined 400 Euros each for illegal gathering. This is just an example but every day the same happens and most of the time does not even make the news.

Some people already decided to give up and suicide because they cannot produce anymore and they have no more a way to survive but are just accumulating debts.

This situation made me think about what can we do, as individuals, to keep ourselves free and not fall in the darkness of the European past.

This week the video is a little longer, sorry, but I felt the need to express my thinking in a proper way and few words were not enough.

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In the video I mention an inspiring speech by Cordie Lee Williams during a protest in Sacramento, CA. Here you can watch it.

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A little technical note since some people already asked me how I realized the effect on this image. Photoshop is not involved, I simply used a very nice and fun lens, the Lensbaby.

See you next week.

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See you next week, knowing it will be another week of Italian covid jail! ouch…

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See you next week my friends. Keep safe and, mostly, keep free!

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Many friends from the USA asked me about how I’m dealing with the COVID-19 and how is the situation in Italy, so I chose a print that expressed how I’m used to deal with situations limiting my freedom of movement.

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Follow me here on the blog if you like to have some first hand updates about the Corona virus in Italy.

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UPDATE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS IN ITALY – 8th of March 2020

A lot change since I made the video, so I will try to do a daily update of the situation. I will keep this out of the Black and White Tale project to not infect it with the virus and the total craziness going on in Italy right now.

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Sometime the reason why I chose an image is pretty simple. In this case I just miss Clearwater Beach!

See you next week.