“There is still one of which you never speak.’
Marco Polo bowed his head.
’Venice,’ the Khan said.
Marco smiled. ‘What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?’
The emperor did not turn a hair. ‘And yet I have never heard you mention that name.’
And Polo said: ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.
”

— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Venice, a year ago. The beginning

February 17, 2015 in fine art photography

Carnival in Venice by Amy Kanka Valadarsky

February 2014, exactly a year ago a dream came true. Little did I know than that at the same time a new one was born. Photography.

This trip was a gift my husband and I gave ourselves for my 50th year birthday. To see the Carnival in Venice. Since at the time I was fighting the camera in order to photograph my jewelry - he thought a tour led by a photographer would be great.

Venice at any time, but in particular at Carnival is indescribable. Neither words not pictures can do it justice. Impossible to romanticize at it is the definition of romance. "Like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go" as Truman Capota said.

'Why don't you check out the 'woman photographing' organization?' asked our wonderful photographer guide.

I did. I enrolled to the advanced photography class. And a year later - here I am.

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