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BARGE

FONDAMENTA FOSCANNI, VENICE, ITALY

Image Number 239

Venice is distinguished above all cities, not simply for its canals, but because its treasures are largely intact from the fourteenth century.  We owe this to the fact that after Vasco de Gama discovered the route around the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, Venetian trade collapsed for evermore.  From then on, the Venetians could not afford to change the city they had inherited.   This image of a barge was taken directly across the canal from the apartment in which Atticus Webb was staying in the Dorsoduro area of Venice.

TECHNICAL NOTES

Captured by Atticus Webb mid afternoon on a Zeiss Contax 645 medium format camera with Zeiss 80mm lens at f11 with an exposure of 1/90th of a second.    The image was registered on a transparency using Fuji Velvia 100 ASA film.  It was then scanned in high resolution by Bond Imaging.  The image has not been cropped and has not been significantly manipulated.