This is the last of the shots I’m going to post from the Venice trip, and it shows the Votive Temple of Peace, a military chanel house, on the island of Lido di Venecia, where our ferry briefly stopped to let passengers on and off. A but a bunch of others pictures from back in Lido di Jesolo will be appearing soon.
Sorry to not have much more to say today. I’ve just develped a roll of film in hot, humid conditions and managed to smash my thermometer all over the floor in the process, necessitating a major clean-up operation. I’m done for the day, I think.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Of all the photos I took while in Venice, I think this might be my favourite. It’s the view east to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, and it just looks so wonderfully Venetian. It has the lagoon, the architecture, gondolas and moorings, and even some of those smart looking wooden speedboats (which always remind me of the chase sequence from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – even though that was filmed in London’s docklands area), and just enough people to add interest but not make it look too crowded..
I was very happy when this one came off the scanner.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I sometimes find that my eye sees photographs without always realising what is in the frame. Sometimes, when I see the result, I’ll notice that someone was staring at me intently without me having realised at the time. Sometimes there will be something in the scene that I didn’t want.
It’s not that Im not paying attention – I am! I think it’s more that sometimes my brain will focus on some element that I think will make a good photograph while filtering out certain elements. The things I mentally remove don’t usually spoil the resulting picture, but I do sometimes wonder how on earth I didn’t spot them at the time.
The picture today is a case in point. I spotted this intrument (a double-bass?) partially obsured by foliage and the edge of a marquee while musicians played beside the Grand Canal in Venice. I saw the instrument, the leaves, the white fabric, and the woman with the violin, but somehow completely missed the fact that someone was stood playing the doble-bass! Perhaps they were not playing their part when I took the photo and the bow was still, but I still failed to notice the peson’s legs just behind.
I wonder if, had I been alone when taking the shot, and not with my wife, whether I would have noticed more? I always find that taking photos when I’m not alone is a much more difficult prospect as I’m concious of not being selfish and going to the same lengths I might normally take when getting a photograph.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I’m not quite finished with the Venice pictures (although there are maybe only a couple more to come) and here are a trio I took in St. Mark’s Square showing the basilica and campanile.
I will once again heartily recommend the Olympus Trip 35 for this sort of visit. It’s the perfect film camera for this type of touristy scenery and the results are excellent.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Another Venetian church, this time San Giacomo di Rialto which is supposedly the oldest chuch in the city, dating back to the year 421, although this may not be the case.
The clock seen in the picture is from the 16th century and is apparently considered a standing joke due to its inacuracy.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I’ve been out for a visit to the seaside with my wife today, which has been nice, but tiring. I shot almost a full roll of HP5+ with my Olympus OM-1N while there, so once I finish the final few frames, I’ll get that developed and scanned. I’m currently at one of those points where I have a decent backlog of images to upload (and even scan), so it might be a while before they apear here on the blog.
Here’s another shot from Venice with a very busy canal.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Another photograph of a Venetian canal, but one where I took two photographs of the same scene – one with my Olympus Trip 35mm film camera, the other with my Ricoh GR III diigtal APS C compact.
I like both pictures. The the digital shot certainly has the edge in terms of resolution and the 28mm lens gives a different POV (as well as being in a different orientation), but I think I prefer the colours from the film shot. They’re less contrasty and rich, but feel more like what I saw on the day (although this is probably subjective).
Which do you prefer, and why?
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
One thing that never seems to be far away in Venice is a view down a narrow canal bordered on each side by interesting and colourful buildings. Here are four such views.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold & Colorplus (last two pictures). Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Bacino Orseolo is a gondola station in Venice, jus a minute away from St Mark’s Square. There were a steady stream of gondolas arriving and departing as we walked through, carrying tourists on rides propelled by the gondoliers in their distinctive striped shirts.
Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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