Venice Again: Day 1: Arrival

Back in Venice for a late winter/early spring break with Mum and our friend Clare. Despite the fact that it is only March and the recent weather has been wet, it seems as if we have picked the perfect week and the outlook is sunny - hurray!

These photos all shot on my iPhone with the Hipstamatic app, using the very latest lens and film combination of Akira and Kodama.

Views over the Alps on the inbound flight

Coming in to land at Marco Polo Airport, Venice

Not sure what they are doing but it made a good photograph from the plane!

Clare and me

Mum

Because we arrived at lunchtime we had the whole afternoon in which to do things, purchased a week-long ticket for the vaporetto and headed out to Academia for coffee in Campo San Stefano.

View from the Accademia bridge looking towards Salute

Having been awake since 4am this strong coffee was very much needed!

Clare and Mum heading back towards the vaporetto

Academia Bridge is now loaded with lover's padlocks.

Clare and I both chose a ham and cheese toasted sandwich at the cafe in Campo San Stefano, but the crusts were decidedly cardboardy. However this ended up being a win-win situation for the local seagulls and pigeons!

Some very bizarre mannequin heads and hairstyles in a barbers' window in Via Garibaldi.

Resigned yet patient dog waiting for owner to stop gossiping with friends.

Pet shop window.

Father and son, toyshop window. 

Fancy glassware at Ristorante Carpaccio.


Day 2: Shopping and Sunshine

A Walk Around Crystal Palace

Decided to go for a late afternoon walk around Crystal Palace with my iPhone, using the Hipstamatic app set to random, which means whenever the phone is shaken the lens and film change.  This is quite hit and miss as I don't like all of the combinations, but I thought it would be a different way to take photographs and to show just how much can be done with this single photography app.

Sometimes the choice of lens and film works really well for a particular subject, other times it just doesn't.  I wasn't checking the photos at first but later on I decided that I would so that I could have a chance to photograph them using a different combination.  Some of these photos were also taken very quickly, in order not to be spotted by the people in them, such as those waiting to cross the road where I mistimed the car driving past and pressed the shutter far too soon.

Unfortunately I only noticed when I got home that the resolution had been set to the lowest possible, as opposed to the highest possible that I normally use. I don't know whether this changed when I shook the phone to change the combination, something I'll have to watch out for in future, but it does mean that these photos are not the best quality.  I may just have to go out tomorrow and do it all again!