A few of the thousands of pigeons that flock to Piazza San Marco, the main square in Venice, Italy.
Plazza San Marco, Venice about 2000 or thereabouts. Expensive coffee. Good though. Nice view from the tower and a regular shot by the tourists but then again I was one. Like being a tourist. Like coffee too.
Taken with a Minolta 5xi on Fuji film. Suburban Venice! / No tourists, just signs of lives being lived.
The mask I bought from Flavia (www.veniceatelier.com) – I also bought the dress there, shown on another picture.
Taken with a Minolta 5xi on Fuji film
Venice, Piazza di San Marco Shot with a Canon T90; I used ISO 400 Kodak B&W Film. It was taken early in the morning (roughly around 4:30 am) before the sun came up. I put the camera on the steps surrounding the Piazza as I lacked a Tripod. Unfortunately I forgot what exposure I had, what Aperture, etc. ... Should have written it down :c) ... / Anyways :D Enjoy it (P.S. I did not straighten the image on purpose, as I like the crooked angles in all the picture).
Shot with Canon T90; Kodak Film ISO 400 :c) / I placed the camera on the ground and had it on slow shutter speed. We pretended to have some breatcrumbs and waited for the pigeons to gather around us. Once they were there, my friend clapped loudly so they would sore. I pressed the shutter, right into the pigeons. / I hadn’t completely focused on the buildings, more on the pigeons in the foreground, meaning, the buildings aren’t tack sharp – in the beginning, this picture was more an accident, but now I actually think it works better that way as it adds to the seemingly chaotic motion of the birds :)
A shot I took back in the eighties. Wonder what has become of that little child… You can read about the wonderful Basilica of Santa Croce here
A little piazza in south Italy, lit up and decorated for the fiesta
In a time of drought and with the threat of Global Warming influencing our everyday living, it is a refreshing feeling to view a scene where nature takes back from our impact on the earth. This photo was taken in the quaint little Tuscan town of Siena in Italy. The fountain is in the Campo opposite the Torre. The campo, so called because it used to be a field before it was paved over, is at the top of the hilltop town of Siena, which reaches higher still when you scale the Tower. You will have spectacular views of the antique buildings and the lush green fields of Tuscany beyond the city wall.
The three magnificent buildings in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy. On the left, the Battistero di San Giovanni (Baptistery of St. John) – begun in 1296 and completed in 1436. / On the right, the Campanile di Giotto (Giotto’s Bell Tower) – begun in 1334 and completed in 1359. / In the centre, the cathedral church, the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) – begun in 1059 and completed in 1128. The exterior walls of all three buildings are faced in alternate vertical and horizontal bands of polychrome marble from Carrara (white), Prato (green), Siena (red), Lavenza and a few other places. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Florence or Italy. Featured in the Italy and All Things Italian Group on 18th February 2009. / Featured in the Architecture and Cityscapes Photography Group on 18th February 2009.
Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy late at night. Click once on image to enlarge. / / / /
Basilica di San Marco a Venezia is the cathedral of Venice. / It is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. It lies on Piazza San Marco. / Originally it was the “chapel” of the Venetian rulers, and not the city’s cathedral. Since 1807 it has been the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice. The building is known by the nickname Chiesa d’Oro (Church of gold). National Hertitage Created using Orton effect
These buildings, at Piazza Plebiscito, were taken in Naples, Italy on b&w film. I have since scanned to digital and added a layer of texture.
Challenge Winner in Unique Buildings Of The World Group – Round, curved buildings Challenge Agoust – 23 – 2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Featured in Compact Group 2 per day June – 12 – 2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Featured in Unique Buildings Of The World May – 02 – 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— *Panasonic Lumix DMC LX2 Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List – Italy Piazza del Duomo – Pisa (1987) Piazza dei Miracoli The Piazza del Duomo (“Cathedral Square”) is a wide, walled area at the heart of the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. Partly paved and partly grassed, it is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Duomo, the Leaning Tower (the cathedral’s campanile), the Baptistry and the Camposanto. It is otherwise known as Piazza dei Miracoli (“Square of Miracles”). This name was created by the Italian writer and poet Gabriele d’Annunzio who, in his novel Forse che si forse che no (1910) described the square in this way: L’Ardea roteò nel cielo di Cristo, sul prato dei Miracoli. / which means: “The Ardea rotated over the sky of Christ, over the meadow of Miracles.” Often people tend to mistake the term with Campo dei Miracoli (“Field of Miracles”). This one is a fictional magical field in the book Pinocchio, where a gold coin seed will grow a money tree. In 1987 the whole square was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Siena, Italy Fonte Gaia in Piazza del Campo !
Piazza della Concordia, Albissola Marina (Liguria, Italia) Canon PowerShot A80 / iso 100, f 8.0, 1/500 sec., 23 mm. Thank you for your attention. Featured in the group Shapes & Patterns / Featured in the group The Compact Group Winner of the challenge Geometric Shapes & Patterns Top ten in the challenge Unnatural Nature Avatar of the group Shapes & Patterns -
Piazza St Marco, Venezia, 6am, no one is here, not even a pigeon :) Canon 1Ds MkIII / 17-40mm L – 3 exposures for the HDR look
VENICE / . / The city stretches across 118 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 62,000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazione of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon. The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain and spice trade) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. / . Etymology / . / The name is connected with the people known as the Veneti, perhaps the same as the Eneti (Ενετοί). The meaning of the word is uncertain. / Connections with the Latin verb ‘venire’ (to come) or (Slo)venia are fanciful. A connection with the Latin word venetus, meaning ‘sea-blue’, is possible. / . / . / Foreign words of Venetian origin: / arsenal, ciao, ghetto, gondola, lazaret, lagoon, lido, quarantine, Montenegro, regatta. / “Venezuela” means “little Venice”. / . / (wikipedia)
Venice, Italy. I intentionally did not correct the perspective in this shot. I found out I like it better like this :) Textures courtesy of Jerry Jones aka ghostbones and Telzey
Piazza San Marco, Venice Italy. World Heritage listed. Orton effect applied. Texture applied. Featured in the Heritage Listed Group October 2009 Featured in the I Love Italy Group October 2009
Shot in Piazza San Marco (Venezia) Italy. My husband, Dino. > > >
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