Sunday 27 December 2015

BEFOGGED IN VENICE

When fog descends on Venice, the city undergoes a metamorphosis.

The air is moist, the stones sweat and the fog works its relentless changes on everything: tarnishing the gilded mosaics of the Basilica; shrouding buildings; decapitating campaniles; bleaching colour from the brickwork; drabbing down the marble; deepening the shadows in the narrow calli; obliterating every distant vista and turning the sky a universal, eye-tiring grey, occasionally smudged by the silhouette of a lone wheeling gull...






 


Photos: © Brian Sibley & David Weeks 2015

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The pictures are superb, but your words are even better! (RGP)

Brian Sibley said...

Thanks, Richard. This was another paragraph for my Venice book project – that will never see the light of day... :)

Roger O B... said...

Watch out for red anoraks.