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Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo, taken aboard a boat, looking down into silvery green canal water. The image is framed in the upper right corner by the reflection of a low brick canal wall, and in the lower left corner by the edge of the boat, made of bright brown shiny wood. Reflected between them is a monumental marble building, with columns and crenellations, perfectly mirrored in the water which is completely still and flat, apart from along the boat's edge in the lower left corner where it is rippled and distorted by the boat's gentle wake. The overall effect of the image is one of a sort of optical illusion, reality being invaded and slightly distorted by a tiny vortex from elsewhere, and for me feels like it's asking us a question about what we perceive and how we perceive it.

#SilentSunday #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo of a monumental building frontage, with two storeys of huge high arched fanlighted leaded windows, separated by marble columns and topped with marble heads and ornamental cherubs, and with Juliette balconies in front. At the top is a row of horizontal oval windows. The picture is all in shades of black and grey and dingy white. Almost in the centre of the frame is a seagull in flight, wings curved mid-flap in a shape reminiscent of the arched tops of the windows, but its dingy white and grey colouring means that it is so well camouflaged that you'd miss it if you weren't looking closely.

#FensterFreitag #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo taken looking up at the top of a moss-covered brick garden wall, which makes a diagonal line across the lower right hand corner of the frame. A lilac wisteria bush clambers over the top of the wall. Above is a washing line, on a contrasting diagonal going from the top left corner of the frame to the middle right, on which is hung two lilac towels which exactly match the colour of the wisteria. The corner of a white sheet on the line is to the left, and a small towel on the right in a pleasing contrasting blue colour. Behind is an ivory white wall, the edge of a wooden rooftop balcony structure, and a corner of cloudy white sky. The image feels tranquil and muted.

#SilentSunday #Bloomscrolling #DailyVenice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Fabriqué au Gabon #DailyVenice #Water #MeerMittwoch #Venice #Venezia

Colour photo taken at a low angle, of wooden mooring posts and the side of a wooden pontoon in a canal. The water is a dull greyish green colour, and the wooden posts where they emerge from the water are covered with grey and green algae and barnacles, and leave their reflections on the water's gently rippled surface. In the foreground on the left is a pale brown post with a horizontal bar like the unfinished idea of a fence which almost reaches the centre of the frame. Stretching from the right of the frame, to almost but not quite join with it in the centre, is the pale grey pontoon. In the background through the mooring posts you can just make out the buildings on the other side of the canal, in white, grey and pale terracotta. The overall impression is of a confusion of horizontals and verticals, all in a very muted colour palette. The detail that stands out is on the side of the pontoon, on which has been printed, upside down and in the sort of lettering that is used on the side of old fashioned tea crates, the words "Fabriqué au Gabon" on a vibrant bright blue rectangle.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Closeup colour photo of a dangling cluster of dark puce-pink blossom on a tree. The picture is taken immediately after a rainstorm, and drops of water hang suspended from the nethermost petals. A green-black twig diagonally crosses the lower right corner of the frame, with two pea-green leaves growing off it which can just be seen behind the blossom. A gap in the arrangement of blossom, in the middle right of the frame, lets us see a blurry overexposed background of whitish-grey.

#bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #Blommastodon

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo of an arched glass door with a pale grey marble surround, set in a darker grey wall. The bottom third of the door is covered by a silver metal panel, which protects against high water. The arch at the top of the door has a black metal fanlight, and the rest of the door is divided into thirds by the same metal. The glass in the door is reflecting the view opposite like a mirror: in the background there are low red and ochre coloured houses under a pale peach sunset sky on the seafront across the turquoise canal, and in the foreground a black metal bridge with a person crossing it framed in the middle of the rightmost panel. There is a huge contrast between grey and black of the wall and the door itself, and the bright sharp colours of the reflection.

#FensterFreitag #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Tag #TextureTuesday #DailyVenice #Venice #Graffiti

Closeup colour photo looking along an uneven ivory-painted plaster wall, which has some ochre graffiti spray painted on it in a swirly pattern.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Statement #DailyVenice #Venice #Politics #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite

Black and white snapshot of a white haired gentleman walking down a Venetian street, seen from behind. On the back of his black frock coat is printed in white capital letters "Trump voters are illegal immigrants here"

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Closeup colour photo of a bright yellow wildflower, with a mess of long rectangular petals that are slightly fringed at the edges. In the background pale green foliage. The picture is full of sunlight and feels like the flower is happily greeting the spring.

#Bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #Blommastodon

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour detail photo of ornamentation on a wall: two ribbons of white marble with scroll designs, set in a dark red-brown stone, rise vertically from a white and brown speckled horizontal stone. To the left is a strip of ochre coloured plaster, and to the right exposed brick work where the ochre plaster has fallen away. The ornamented marble looks ancient, and probably is - many buildings in this area have their foundations in the 1200s - which contrasts with the much more modern plaster bits, and a thin white cable which runs horizontally along the bottom of the frame.

#TextureTuesday #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo, although you wouldn't know it because it is entirely in greyscale, of the searingly white sun burning through the clouds, an almost-circular blown-out patch of white just off centre of the frame. The sun's rays make pearl-grey lines across the clouds, which range in colour from smoke to charcoal. In the lower right hand corner of the image is the very top of a chimney stack, and a lamp post with an old-fashioned hanging lantern. Two seagulls soar in the sky above the sun, wings outstretched, one horizontal and one vertical, like lines of black ink.

#DailyVenice #Venezia #Birds

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo taken looking up into a tree, a tangle of branches heaving with small bright pink blossoms. Clear blue sky behind.

#Bloomscrolling #Spring #DailyVenice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Lamplight #FensterFreitag #DailyVenice #Venice

Colour photo of the two bottom storeys of a house abutting a canal. The bottom storey has four small square windows with vertical bars across them, two either side of an arched doorway which is covered by wooden planks, the lower ones of which have been worn away by the tidal water. The upper storey has five rectangular windows, the outside four with closed brown wooden shutters, and the central one with one shutter open, revealing the warm glow of a lamp inside the room. The building has sand-coloured plaster at the top, which has fallen away below to reveal dusky red brick work which gets deeper in colour the further down the wall you go. The water in front is an intense bottle-green colour, and there are two pale blue-grey wooden mooring posts either side of the boarded-up doorway. All the colours in the picture are quite muted and cold, apart from the orangey light from the half-open window.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Spider-Man Far From Home #DailyVenice #Venice #Venezia

A clothes line is suspended across a narrow sunny Venetian street, strung with various items of laundry in muted colours. In the middle of the line hangs a Spider-Man onesie, upside down, as if Spidey was hanging on by his feet and waving his arms in the air. It looks most incongruous in every way.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo of the windowless side of a yellow building, with a gutter pipe in the shape of a big black Y running down the middle of it. The not-quite-as-black-but-almost shadow of a tree with dense intricate branches and what looks like a couple of birds nests falls across the entirely of the wall, the chaotic and very organic lines of the tree contrasting with the straight lines of the guttering. Bright blue sky above.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #DailyVenice #Shadows

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Closeup detail of a bit of a metal lamppost, which takes up the right hand two thirds of the frame. The metal is faintly ridged, and was originally bottle green, but there is only a small patch of that colour visible, the rest being stained and rusted and corroded in shades ranging from cream to ochre to the colour of dried blood. In the background, pale blue canal water under a pale blue sky, with a low seafront skyline of buildings behind and an out of focus small white motorboat in front.

#TextureTuesday #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

First wisteria of the spring! #Bloomscrolling #DailyVenice #SmallCheeringThings

A strand of wisteria vine growing along a wire support in front of a sunny terracotta-red brick wall. The long thin clusters of buds hang down from the vine like a garland of Christmas tree ornaments, and cast their shadows on the wall behind. A few of the buds are just coming into pale purple bloom.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Almost spring #SilentSunday #Bloomscrolling #DailyVenice #SmallCheeringThings

Colour photo. A gently curved branch of winter jasmine arches from the bottom centre of the frame to the top right corner. There are two bright lemon-yellow flowers in full bloom, eagerly drinking in the wintery sunshine, and a couple of closed buds. In the background there is a wall made of rust-brown and muted orange brick. The image feels quietly hopeful.

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Colour photo of a big arched window, just off centre of the frame. It has a quite plain white marble surround, and a very ornate metal scrollwork grille in front of it. Most of the photo is quite dingy in colour, the grille is dusty charcoal, the wall it is set in is stained and mottled grey and smoke coloured plaster, but there are three little spots of colour - two intrepid little bright green plants, one halfway up the left side and the other in the lower right corner of the window, and a small patch of bright terracotta brick in the upper right corner of the photo where a patch of plaster has fallen off the wall.

#FensterFreitag #DailyVenice #Venice

Anna @mothninja@mastodon.world

Good advice #DailyVenice #Venice #Graffiti #SmallCheeringThings

A triangular warning sign indicating a slippery surface, showing a figure mid-slip, one leg on the floor and the other raised, arms flailing. Someone has added googly eyes to the figure's head, and written "go dance" in black capital letters on the side. The sign is attached to a metal pole, and the top of a red circular sign can be seen below. Blue sky behind.

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