Jan Herremans
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Candid at Rialto market
Venice attracts some 20,000,000 tourists a year. Add in a local population of 58,000, and you're talking about a big appetite for groceries.
Since the year 1097, Venetians have depended on the Rialto markets for their daily supplies of fish, vegetables, fruit, and other foodstuffs.
The markets are open to the public, and there's no better show in town. Stevedores unload crates of produce from barges; vendors hawk their wares; restaurant chefs examine the daily supply of fish, crustaceans, and bivalves; delivery men push handcarts laden with fruit and vegetables.
Elizabeth David, the cookbook author, portrays the Rialto markets as a visual feast:
"The light of a Venetian dawn is so limpid and so still that it makes every separate vegetable and fish luminous with a life of its own, with unnaturally heightened colours and clear stencilled outlines
"In other markets, on other shores, the unfamiliar fishes may be vivid, mysterious, repellent, fascinating, and bright with splendid colour; only in Venice do they look good enough to eat. In Venice even ordinary sole and ugly great skate are striped with delicate lilac lights, the sardines shine like newly-minted silver coins, pink Venetian scampi are fat and fresh, infinitely enticing in the early dawn."
Taken on my recent trip to Venice with inspiring-photography.com/
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ponytail
Candid at Rialto market
Venice attracts some 20,000,000 tourists a year. Add in a local population of 58,000, and you're talking about a big appetite for groceries.
Since the year 1097, Venetians have depended on the Rialto markets for their daily supplies of fish, vegetables, fruit, and other foodstuffs.
The markets are open to the public, and there's no better show in town. Stevedores unload crates of produce from barges; vendors hawk their wares; restaurant chefs examine the daily supply of fish, crustaceans, and bivalves; delivery men push handcarts laden with fruit and vegetables.
Elizabeth David, the cookbook author, portrays the Rialto markets as a visual feast:
"The light of a Venetian dawn is so limpid and so still that it makes every separate vegetable and fish luminous with a life of its own, with unnaturally heightened colours and clear stencilled outlines
"In other markets, on other shores, the unfamiliar fishes may be vivid, mysterious, repellent, fascinating, and bright with splendid colour; only in Venice do they look good enough to eat. In Venice even ordinary sole and ugly great skate are striped with delicate lilac lights, the sardines shine like newly-minted silver coins, pink Venetian scampi are fat and fresh, infinitely enticing in the early dawn."
Taken on my recent trip to Venice with inspiring-photography.com/
More candids here
www.flickr.com/photos/23502939@N02/sets/72157622769131641/
More Italy here
www.flickr.com/photos/23502939@N02/sets/72157627674400307/
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