High Tide

Taken at San Marco square at high tide. This has always been my favorite view of Venice; the bobbing gondolas tied to old algae covered posts along the dock. From here a few dozen gondolieri perch on the bow of their boat or lean ever so nonchalantly on the pier railing cat calling to tourists with the ever familiar Italian nod and jerk of the head and the stiff fingered wave of “step into my office.” It is one of those more romantic things in life to float through Venice’s inner canals lined with high walls, open windows, and lines of laundry above your head—if you are willing to pay the price that is.