Beyond the Engineering Frameworks:
Personal Milestones & Passions
So, if you survived up to here, let's go on!
Well ... since right today, and solely for the Grace of God,
I reached the VENERABLE age of 55 Years, 10 months, and 30 Days.
To share something of my life with you I decided to use this same business single-home-page
basically expanding it with a list of pointers to social contents. For those in a hurry:
- on this page: Sharing, Reporting, Sport, Photography
- on social resources: Facebook, X, Linkedin, YouTube, Pinterest
TO SHARE: the Verb of My Life
I had the habit of writing about of the most important things in my life long before the Internet went public domain: my high school diaries was full of notes and i also had some pen pals, while I maintain with care "a number" of love letters all written by hand.
When all got "informatized" sharing just got easier and I have all of my files from 1981 with a two years pause gap: Back in 1996 I can clearly remember my open desktop pc standing open next to me for routine inspection, while after a short visit to the "restroom" a heavy Vocabulary decided to dive down onto my 2gb conner ata hd : that destroyed my first two years of e-mails, from the very first regarding wnet.it, my first company-registered domain. Consider that before the infamous "night of the faxes" to be able to register an Internet domain in italy you had to first register a matching trademark ...
From Writing to "Reporting" was an easy step with PCs from Windows 3.1 up ... WinWord got mature with version 6.0 while Word 95 was blazing fast on Windows 95.
I started such a specific way of writing sharing way before the term "blog" existed. For example, here you can find my New York City Marathon 2002 "report", both in ORIGINAL and BRIEF version.
The above story is part of my book, "The Way of an Italian Pilgrim"... (Now in Italian but - God Willing - English version is next to come) which is loosely inspired by the Way of a Russian Pilgrim: As the latter is centered on the prayer of jesus, mine rounds about the hail mary.
But it all Already started with my very first "pilgrimage" in Medjugorje in December 2001: one of those "never again" experiences which then evolved in a "let me quit counting" attitude after the first 50 trips: as a pilgrim, as a guide, as a reporter, as a journalist, for a retreat or just for vacation.
Being aware of having had the gift of my life, I soon felt the urge to share what I had the chance to live and back in those years internet mailing lists were a "de facto" standard for such a sharing: I began writing my reports for "Innamorati di Maria" and "Informazioni da Medjugorje" and while i Quit the first because of the moderator I still keep writing in the second "nonostante" the moderators, having had to nickname the list as "Moderazioni da Medjugorje" a number of times.
For those wanting to read my thoughts all of my writing flow currently follows this route:
- First I write my "reports" for marco.piagentini.it and then wordpress shares them automatically over my linkedin profile
- Italian IT Insights then go to mc2027.piagentini.it
- Catholic-oriented posts go to maria.reginadellapace.it site, facebook group, and mailing list
From Sharing to Reporting
Academic Conclusion
Sport: a life in motion up to full endurance
Photography (& Visual Metrology)
The quality of that early 3.2-megapixel Sony CCD sensor left a lasting impression: You can still appreciate its dynamic range in the unedited, handheld night capture of Times Square below.
Times Square, NYC — Captured on the Sony DSC-P71
Node 2 (2010): The F-Mount Era. I finally upgraded to a DX Reflex system with a Nikon D5100, officially joining the "Nikon-Forever" party and taking my stance in the infamous war against the "Canon-Forever" camp, though still occasionally tempted by moving to sony (as per the quality experienced with the DSC-P71). At a certain point I put a D5300 next to it to begin working with a semi-pro dual-body setup, but the latter got stolen. The replacement D5300 got stolen the next month. Finally, I purchased a third "burgundy" D5300 from the German market: it survived for a while, but its motherboard died exactly one day after the warranty period expired.
Node 4: The Mirrorless Architecture.After some "survival" with samsung's S series, my main subject—religious and liturgical photography—often demanded extreme silence, I decided to go Mirrorless with a z50. Finally, after securing my Master's degree in 2026, I decided to gift myself a Nikon Zf. I currently run this full-frame architecture with a 24-70/f4, a 50/f1.8 prime lens, and a cool 180-600/f5.6-6.3 that I still need to master.
Node 5: Mobile Edge & Backup. Today, my Z50 serves as a reliable backup camera. However, mobile computational photography has advanced so far that my Samsung S26 Ultra and S24 Ultra occasionally allow me to leave BOTH the Z50 and the Zf cameras at home!
Most of my pictures are on my Facebook profile and Flickr.
To keep track of my 20++ years of digital pics I mainly use Google Photos.
All of my internet websites are hosted by MisterDomain.EU.