Colour photo taken through the window of a vaporetto stop. The foreground focus is on the metal edges dividing the window panes, which are positioned vertically two thirds of the way across the frame, and horizontally just above the bottom of the frame, dividing the image into very unequal quarters. The metal is grey and in shadow, and looks gloomy and grimy. Through the window, and softly out of focus and almost dream-like, is the most quintessentially Venetian scene: the Grand Canal near sunset, palazzi and wooden mooring posts lining either side of the silvery water, the sky above painted pastel yellow with streaks of gentle pinky-grey. Two black gondolas, with their gondolieri standing proudly on the sterns, are processing away down the canal, and despite a vaporetto also being in view, the image feels entirely timeless, as if it could have been painted centuries ago. To my imagination, it's like the window is acting like a time machine, offering us a magic glimpse of an eternal past.
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