Friday, January 30, 2009

Dolomite Mountains

In this city where buildings are so concentrated and where large perspectives are so few when you stride along its streets, it's sometimes good to gain some height and observe the snowy peaks of the not so far Dolomite mountains.

Dans cette cité au tissu urbain si dense et aux vastes perspectives si rares, il est parfois agréable de prendre quelque hauteur et d'observer les sommets enneigés des voisines Dolomites.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I lived on the Guidecca in the apartment building to the left of Ostello Venezia in grad school. When I arrived in September the haze from the plains of the Veneto obscured the Dolomites. In November the haze disappeared. When I woke up in the morning and saw the Dolomites rising above the Salute I was in ecstasy...nothing can explain how beautiful it was! The mountains seemed like a nimbus.

Chris

1:25 PM  
Blogger Walker said...

Lovely cityscape picture. I have never seen those mountains before, thanks.

5:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for the beautiful photo! This is the first shot I have ever seen of Venice with mountains in the background. Breathtaking!

5:51 PM  
Anonymous Author said...

I love this photo. Venice is truly beautiful and I have visited it many times but I have never sen it from this angle with the mountains on show.

8:25 PM  
Blogger Kate said...

Oh, Pierre, I've missed your blog. I shall continue to return now. Great photo!!

2:11 PM  
Blogger Michelle said...

Great photo! (Oddly enough, I *also* lived in the building to the left of the Ostello while in graduate school, about 14 years ago...)

4:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Michelle were you in the Venice Program at UVA?

1:31 PM  
Anonymous Luc Bosmans said...

yes, really beautifull pictures, I was in Venice recently, and I would like to send you some pictures, just for fun, how can I reach you?

Luc Bosmans, Belgium

Note: you can visit me on www.flickr.com/lucbosmans

5:11 PM  

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