Tomorrow rain is expected and temperatures should drop. I hope they do, still waiting on that to decide about my weekend plans There's an endurance race in Imola at stake (on Sunday), I have no intention of going there if the temperatures are still like the last days Here's a photo from last year:

Only a day in and already over halfway! Thank you so much, please help out or share if you can! gofund.me/690cd12ec

I should just put everything cent I earn in All-World ETFs instead of browsing eBay. 🤔

The Kind Old Sun (b.~1870's?) Romeo, Macomb County Michigan. 📸 Minolta Maxxum 7000i 🎞️ Rollei Infrared B&W Baptist Church: Take 1 #photography #film #filmphotography #believeinfilm #minolta #35mm #mono #monochrome #bnw #b&w #liminal #silhouettes #architecture #greekrevival #romeo #macomb #michigan

Another day at work. (Kamakura, Kanagawa, 29 April 2026) 📷 Canon EOS 100, EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM 🎞️ Agfaphoto APX 100 @EI200, HC-110B #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #35mm #monochrome #bw #b&w #bwphotography #Kanagawa #Japan #train #driver #enoshima #railway

Ah, the dreaded end of the month (also end of the quarter), I cannot procrastinate no more filling out the hated timesheet Luckily June was a short month, with various events/days off, so it'll take less time

Trans people exist and they are my friends and good people and I am so, so tired of everyone around me treating this like a difference of politics and not of morality or even acknowledging the same reality

I was reading an article regarding the 3€ EU tariff on Chinese goods that starts on July 1st, they wrote that "maybe the sellers will lower their price to absorb the cost, instead of the consumers" It's funny how people keep not understanding how tariffs work,I thought we already went through this

Morning espresso. (Porto Levante, 26 June 2026) 📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 🎞️ AGFA Vista 100 (exp. 6/2006) @ EI50, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #coffee #espresso #cup

Wouldn't be summer without an outer ear infection.

Glass edge. (Porto Levante, 26 June 2026) 📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 reversed (poor man's macro) 🎞️ AGFA Vista 100 (exp. 6/2006) @ EI50, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #macro #glass #verre #edge #rim

Yay I've improved! Lots of "damn I know this station", with clear memories of me taking the tube or getting off there, but sadly not remembering the name. (like I kept typing "Manor House" not understanding why the "Mansion House" dot on the map didn't light up)

Summertime. (Porto Levante, 27 June 2026) 📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Zoom 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5 🎞️ AGFA Vista 100 (exp. 6/2006) @ EI50, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #pastel #umbrella #hedge #summer

1PM ibuprofen taken, now let's try to turn off my brain during my 1-hour lunch break so it can relax. It's weird for me to get a headache now, usually when it happens it arrives later in the afternoon, like 5-6PM

Apparently I've been working at my company for 1918 days, a little over 5 years. And just a comparison to prove how politically unstable Italy has always been, this is way longer than any government from the Italian unification in 1861 to today (assuming we remove the obvious 20-year outlier).

LEAF #Filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #35mm #Nikon

Oh crap. Just found out a far-right populist Italian political party has a new hymn, apparently it's a bespoke dance song. I'd love to listen to it, but dance songs have a tendency to get stuck in my brain and I'd rather not. I guess it'll be like a not-very-fun summer variant of Whamageddon.

Random film photographer's fridge. (Porto Levante, 26 June 2026) 📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 🎞️ AGFA Vista 100 (exp. 6/2006) @ EI50, Axelcolor C-41 kit #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #fridge #rolls #aperitif #crodino #kodak #agfa

Screw on the Loose (b.~1910) Byron Township, Kent County Michigan. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #digitalart #lightroom #motionblur #oldbuildings #houses #rural #byrontwp #kent #michigan

More boring test pictures, two rolls of 20 year old expired AGFA Vista 100 at EI50, I'll scan them later. Now I should go grocery shopping but the only thought of putting clothes on makes me sweat. It's too comfy staying at home with the AC wearing only a pair of shorts

📷fuji gs645s 🎞️kodak ektar/bellini c-41 📍national theatre, london kind of an amusingly located light leak #filmphotography #filmaccidents #streetphotography

Water cooling. (Garda, Verona, 12 June 2026) 📷 FED-5v, Industar-61 55mm f/2.8 🎞️ Vision3 250D AHU @ EI320, C-41 #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #garda #lake #pool #lakegarda #refreshing #water #swimming

Sort of losing track of time. Since AC is on, and having windows towards the south I close the blinds to avoid heat from sunlight, this mean I can't see outside and have no points of reference. So with only interior lighting 1AM and 1PM kind of look the same, even though now it's almost the former

Fun fact, something quite similar really happened in 1995 on the Italian edition of Wheel of Fortune Of course the poor contestant went for the lewd version Just Google "Signor Giancarlo" (the contestant's name), of course the video is on YouTube and it became a meme (explanation in the alt text)

Hot topic. (air conditioning) (Suginami, Tokyo, 27 April 2026) 📷 Canon EOS 100, EF 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 🎞️ RPX 400, HC-110B #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #bw #b&w #monochrome #Tokyo #Japan #StreetPhotography #bwphotography #street #airconditioning #ac

It was fun seeing my car thermometer jump up from 34°C to 39°C while driving the 50kms that separate the Adriatic coast from my hometown. At least this morning the pool water was cooler than yesterday afternoon, yet barely cooler than the outside temperature. Maybe tomorrow I'll dev some film.

📷minolta CLE/m-rokkor 40mm f2 🎞️konica centuria 200/expired 2005/bellini c-41 📍city of london #filmphotography #architecture #expiredfilm

I slept quite a lot I needed this Let's go have some breakfast (which in my case is my usual espresso)

Using Wireshark (or any packet analyzer that lets you see all the raw network traffic that passes through) with any device you own would absolutely surprise the majority of people. It's the IT variant of sticking a Petri dish on random things you think are clean then watch bacteria grow on them.

Artificial waterfall in a pool full of springs water. (Garda, Verona, 12 June 2026) 📷 FED-5v, Industar-61 55mm f/2.8 🎞️ Vision3 250D AHU @ EI320, C-41 #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #garda #lake #pool #lakegarda #waterfall

I spent about an hour in the pool, sadly the water was hot. In the end I decided to just go back to my apartment. We'll see if tomorrow morning will be better, I doubt it, anyway I still plan to get back home around lunchtime/early afternoon. Now I think I'll take a nice cold shower

Crap, I was eyeing one since it's cheaper than a Pi and I had a few ideas that needed a board PC with Linux to run. I guess I'll have to buy it before the price hike hits.

To be fair, there already are plenty of them a little bit to the south, in the Po Delta (in the place I currently am, actually), probably because it's a protected area. They're usually a rarer sight near Venice, it's a nice thing to see more of them around

Sic transit gloria mundi

Ok, I took the afternoon off so my weekend started 4 minutes ago. The pool opens in 2 and a half hours. Time to cook something for lunch

Daily "I'm getting old and I'm not even 40" moment: the daughters of one of my cousins just graduated high school. They were born the year before I graduated high school. I remember talking to one of them about starting high school just a few years ago. Crap. But also I'm happy for them.

Breakfast on the balcony. Feels like being in an oven. 😅 At least there's enough light I could shoot a couple of photos with my very expired roll of color film rated at 50.

4min astrophotography mode photo from my Pixel 8a, slightly corrected (they usually come out bright and need to be toned down). Looking east towards the northern Adriatic sea. There's also a nice breeze here on the balcony

Bonus photo from my evening drive: cat on a Panda

10PM piadina dinner time

Waiting for my greasy takeaway piadina on my way to the sea. The joy of driving on secondary roads at 9PM on a weekend is that they're pleasantly empty, for legal reasons I won't admit how fast I was going nor how many times the speed limit I was driving at

Gary Brannan's Inflation Summation

Today's exhibit on how beautifully random the web is: I post a photo of a toad I took in 2012 on a random post, and it somehow gets more than 100 likes. I don't give much importance to likes or followers (or I'd be elsewhere), but I always like to observe the unpredictability of virality.

That is an Italian flag and an Audi flag, and the Red Bull I took from the Audi pits at the 2012 24h of Le Mans after a mechanic friend let us in after the race. The cars were still in parc ferme, but I saw the giant wooden crate of the Le Mans overall winner's trophy

Foggy winter sea. (Porto Levante, 6 December 2025) 📷 Minolta XG-2, Kalimar 28-200mm f/4-5.6 🎞️ Fomapan 200, Rodinal 1:50 #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #35mm #Minolta #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #Fomapan #Monochrome #BWphotography #B&W #Fog #Sea #Rocks #lagoon #foggy

Nothing better than a scolding cuppa to fight off the summer heat. (A variation on my usual mid-morning cup of instant coffee. Sadly I drank way less tea than usual over the last year, a tin like this normally lasts me 10 months, I've bought it last august and it's still quite full)

Faygo Rock & Rye (b.~1880's) Grand Rapids, Kent County Michigan. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro In the West Grand neighborhood #photography #digitalart #lightroom #architecture #victorian #vernacular #oldbuildings #houses #trees #powerlines #urban #urbangaze #grandrapids #kent #michigan

Went out for a sec Saw a big toad 🐸 relaxing near the garage door Went back in and grabbed my camera and an appropriate lens Toad was no longer there. Maybe next time, I see them almost every night. For now enjoy an old picture from my archive (EXIF data says 2012-8-26 📷 Nexus S)

Slit #3. (Rovigo, late June 2025) 📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7 (I think, maybe it was the Asanuma 35-105mm) 🎞️ Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1:25 #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #film #35mm #bw #b&w #monochrome #bwphotography #bwphotography #window #blinds #slit