Ahhh...Venice

My daughter is staying with me, just back from a year in Vienna. She described her trip to Venice this Spring and it brought back wonderful memories of my trip to Venice last year. Venice is truly a magic city and a photographers dream with stunning light and visual complexity. This is one of my favourite shots of Piazza San Marco in the late afternoon on a greyish day. The architecture is as always - brilliant - and provides a frame for the mundaneness of life as the tourists, hawkers and stall owners intermingle on perhaps the most famous urban space on Earth: