Isa and I in the Calle Larga del XXII Marzo

Just because I like this one and Isa's little red hat...

San Giorgio Maggiore

Morning on St Mark's Basin. Days are longer. It shows. Spring will be there within three weeks...

Taxi drivers on the riva degli Schiavoni

Carnival, with its glitter, its superficial glamour, its miles of crimson fabric, and its masks with frozen smiles is now over. 2009 was a great vintage say the specialists. Venice nows takes back its usual face of a provincial town, where everyone goes back to their activity.

The Flying bridge

Sospiri in the Sky... The famous Bridge of Sighs, Il Ponte dei Sospiri, cast off... and is now, hanging in midair, quietly wandering among the clouds of an ideal italian sky.

Carnaval begins !

The Carnival began yesterday Saturday, February 14, 2009 and will end Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Have fun!

Alain Hamon from Destination Italie.

And by the way, many thanks to Times Online who gave us the great pleasure to select Venice Daily Photo among its 100 best blogs list.

Venice is for Lovers

Valentine Day isn't it? Venice is romantic for ducks too...

Winter garden in Torcello

Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.

Vincent A. Simeone, in "Wonders of the Winter Landscape"

Pescheria's Stairs

A quiet and lonely courtyard by a cold winter day...
But right behind the green curtain you can hear the bustle of Venice's busy fish market.

Learning to fly

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', Richard Bach

Gilded Piazza

The water persists in invading Piazza San Marco. It gives at night this golden light. A theatre scene in wich passers-by like to play.

Sunday afternoon at San Giobbe Parish

Basketball for men, swing for kids... A moment later the local choir will perform. An usual sunday in San Giobbe parish (in the Cannaregio sestiere, near the Ponte dei tre archi).

A comet fell down on Murano Island

Cometa di Vetro, Comet Glass Star, was made by the Master glass maker Simone Cenedese in Murano. "There is a part of me in each peace of mine, trey are fragments of stars scattered throughout the universe..." says Simeone Cenedese.

www.simonecenedese.it

From Lagoon to Mountains

The costal city, well known for its maritime power during the gone by centuries is surprisingly in the neighbourhood of the peaks. I like to look at them, sharply contrasting with the lagoon horizontality.

Piazza San Marco

Flood tide and ebb tide alter Piazza San Marco's landscape as hours go by. Some wear wellingtons, other are forced to progress over the water on narrow wooden benches.

Under the arcades of the Procuraties vecchie

After midnight, on a deserted Piazz San Marco, this elegantly dressed woman, perhaps back from some days gone by party, seemed to walk on the water under the silent arcades of the Procuraties vecchie...

Night Birds

With your lover, hand in hand, by a cold and rainy night, walk in Venice's alleyways while everybody sleeps...

Burano Red

Two years ago, I presented you a picture named Burano Blue. When in Burano, it's always a pleasure to play with the real painter's palette this island is. So in the same series, this image of a red wall with silver birch. An air of Scandinavia, don't you think so?