Venetian Waterline

Coming from a graphic design background, Photoshop is a tool I use frequently in my daily work.

Not so much with my photography, since I try to compose in the camera lens, with minimal image manipulation after the fact… usually just blemish removal or a cleanup here and there.

This, however, was a vision I had before we went to Italy… I wanted to depict the beauty and timelessness of Venice with the fragility of the ecological circumstances that she grapples with.

So, this ended up being one of the few composite images I have created… I used a distressed Italian Renaissance wall, the way the paint and plaster flaked off the wall creates a topographic, map-like feel, into which I blended an image looking back at the city from a ferry on a trip to Murano.

The result kind of sums up the beauty and distress of this amazing place.

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