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When most travelers return from their vacation they have taken a bunch of “Me in front of ……” photos; Me in front of the Eifel Tower, Me in front of my aunt Tilley’s house, Me in front of …., you get the idea.  These are fine if you want to remember what you looked like, and to prove where you’ve been in the world.  But they hold little interest to other people.

This photographer his traveled and done more than just record where they have been.  They have photographed and interpreted their experience and created an image that others will want to explore.  The photo-artist has replaced a background where we would expect to see the sky with a portion of a work of art that tells us immediately that this image is intended to represent a painting rather than a straight photograph.  Then a dry brush painterly filter was added to the rest of the image. 

I find it interesting that the boat is coming out of the frame and into the scene.  This gives us the illusion that we are close to the gondola and shearing the view of the water front.  The people are all looking into the picture and this adds to the feeling that we as fellow observers should look beyond the foreground subject.  Another element that takes us deeper into the illustration is the fact that the boat and boatman are both black while the buildings are all light colors and our eyes are drawn to the brighter objects.

This photograph was taken on a very cold day in Venice. Even though it is a sunny day why else would the passenger in the gondola be wearing a knit cap?

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