Canale Grande

February 2, 2008 6:00 PM | Related Categories: Transport,travel,Venice

Falling back on some Venice archive photos today. Before James Bond destroyed everything, the local boats perform a delicate ballet in the early morning on the Grand Canal

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..now there's a lovely subject for colour. That's the wonder of digital. You can just do anything you want with it. ;-)

Seriously, I wonder how that nicely formed water texture would come out in that morning light. And the sun? Silver white or golden dawn rise?
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 2/3/08 7:51 PM
Chucker - I sent you the original
# Posted By richard | 2/3/08 7:59 PM
I like that - boats performing " a delicate ballet".
('specially coz I just watched the first episode of "So, You Think You Can Dance - Australia".
I HAD to watch it - the cricket was washed out!)
# Posted By Freefalling | 2/4/08 8:38 AM
I'm happy to see you come back to your marvellous Venice series!
# Posted By Peter | 2/4/08 1:00 PM
SERIOUSLY Richard, tu fais la photo en couleurs et ensuite tu la désatures ?
Ah ! Et moi qui croyais que le Père Noël existait encore à Zurich !
:'o(

C'est incroyable des photos aussi noires qui arrivent à donner une telle idée de lumière !
# Posted By cergie | 2/4/08 3:53 PM
So redolent of Venice. and without the gondola cliche.

And of course, the sign that perseverance pays: the first image with full Exif left in?? ;-)
# Posted By Ham | 2/4/08 5:47 PM
Cergie - quite so. I enliven these poor colours of the spectrum by giving them tone and depth and vitality and contrast! Don't think of it as desaturation
# Posted By richard | 2/4/08 6:11 PM
Ham - luckily I have an EXIF editor, so you can't be sure, can you.... ;)
# Posted By richard | 2/4/08 6:12 PM
Well, if it said "Leica Best M8" I'd have some sort of idea.....
# Posted By Ham | 2/4/08 8:17 PM
Ham - It didn't? Need to fix that
# Posted By Richard | 2/4/08 8:29 PM
.....certainly vindicates you. Proves that you are right all along ;-)
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 2/4/08 11:21 PM
I love your caption. It's delicate like your photo and Canal Grande e i veneziani are grateful to you.
# Posted By Fabrizio - ikol22 | 2/7/08 6:33 PM
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