VENICE, PART 2 - RIALTO

Part 1 of this post is HERE.

One of the places where you can find Venetian real life - surprisingly, especially at certain times of the day, even in tourist seasons! - is the market in Rialto. Historically one of the pulsating hearts of the city, today the market is definitely reduced in scope and size; however, it still serves as the main grocery, fish, meat shopping hub of Venice proper, and is populate it in the mornings by Venetians doing their shopping. My unobtrusive Leica M9 was perfect for shooting here without attracting too much attention:

The change, Venice 2012

Red Hot Chili Pepper, Venice 2012

Winter sunshine warms one Rialto's seller, Venice 2012

Watchdog, Venice 2012

Don't touch Rialto!, Venice 2012

Minimum length acceptable for various fish sale, Venice 2012

It is difficult to find a time of the year when Venice is calm, but definitely worth it if one wants to see the city breath and live busy with its own activities, almost undisturbed by tourists - those tourist that, on the other hand, are its main source of income and its lifeline...

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Now for the technical stuff (click to go to the related product page): all images shown here have been shot with the Leica M9 equipped with the Leica 50mm f/1 Noctilux-M, the Leica 90mm f/2.8 Tele-Elmarit and the Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21mm f/4.0. Photos have been developed in Capture One Pro and finished in Adobe Photoshop CS6; B&W conversions have been done with Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Click to see the other instalments of the Venice series: PART 1, PART 3, PART 4.

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VENICE, PART 1

I have been in Venice for a couple of days last winter, just before Carnival. I am always spellbound by the city and its beauty, and if you think you are too after just a visit during any of the various high tourist seasons (for Venice, it's almost always high season!), you should see it without the hassle of the inevitable hordes of tourists that you find there all the time - during Carnival for instance pedestrian traffic is so intense and people so squeezed on top of one other that in certain areas of the city you'll be lifted and toured around by the crowd itself, without any need for actually walking! By contrast, walking around the city in the morning with my Leica M9 this time of the year, I could see "real" local people minding their business, buying newspapers, transporting goods, going to work...

At the newsagents', Venice 2012

Trio, Venice 2012

Distracted, Venice 2012

Focussing again on the task, Venice 2012

Gate 22, Venice 2012

Strangely enough for such a small and confined city, you can even happen to bump in political demonstrations: nothing like oceanic crowds, of course; but here I bumped in a pretty small - though very vocal! - group of Egyptian immigrants express their disappointment for the new regime in their country, while an old lady sits, not only undisturbed by the event: she was actually rocking her head at the rhythm of the darbuka behind her...!

Mubarak=Tantawi?, Venice 2012

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Now for the technical stuff (click to go to the related product page): all images shown here have been shot with the Leica M9 equipped with the Leica 50mm f/1 Noctilux-M, the Leica 90mm f/2.8 Tele-Elmarit and the Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21mm f/4.0. Photos have been developed in Capture One Pro and finished in Adobe Photoshop CS6; B&W conversions have been done with Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Click to see the other instalments of the Venice series: PART 2, PART 3, PART 4.

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...AND FINALLY I DECIDED THAT I, TOO, SHALL HAVE A BLOG!

OK, this is it - I decided that I am finally going to take the time to sit down and start a blog... now, if I only could figure this blogger thingy!
In case I ever will, I will use this space to post my ramblings about photography - mostly images, reviews, projects, social issues, politics, and whatever semi-seriously photo related thoughts will pop into my mind that I will deem worth sharing...

True Virtus, Italy 2011