Summer Evening, Piazza San Marco

Local Color (Green, Orange, Blue): Gran Viale, Lido

Girl With the Hoop Earring, Grand Canal

The palaces lining either side of the Grand Canal famously make for a beautiful backdrop, but on some days just the particular (and always changing) shade of the water itself will do.

2,967℉ in the Shade

And you think it's hot where you are this summer!

The artisan in the image above is one of Maestro Giorgio Giuman's three sons at Fornace Linea Arianna on Murano, and his work station is just a short distance from the factory's main glass oven, which burns at a temperature of 1,147℃ (or 2,967℉). To keep hydrated in such conditions he and his brothers each drink 6 liters of water (just over 1.5 gallons) per workday.

A slightly different version of this image was originally posted in late July of 2013, in connection with a post on the artist Judy Harvest's collaboration with Fornace Linea Arianna on her work Denatured.

Far From the Madding Crowd (of Lido): Beach Volleyball in the North Lagoon

A beach of one's (or two's, as the case may be) own

Mercantino San Martino

Summer Is Here, Ready or Not

In a couple of days we'll be leaving Venice to travel for about a month. While we're gone I'll generally be posting images of Venice I took during Junes past: for example, the one above was taken on Lido almost exactly five years ago but never posted.

In a couple of instances they may be images I posted more than four years ago, but which I've newly reprocessed and edited.

Any new images will be identified as such in the post.

Venice is a beautiful place to live; it's even more beautiful when one returns to it after being away for a while.