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Island of Burano

Visited the fishing village of Burano, about an hour by boat from Venice this summer. While famous of the quality of the lace made here, what makes it a favorite of photographers are the brightly colored houses all around the island.

The tradition of painting houses in such bright colors is to easily demarcate the properties, though a popular legend is that this was done due to the island's past as a fishing village where the bright colors made it easier for returning fishermen to find their homes in the thick fog of the lagoon.

Tourism is the main industry today, but the island has only one hotel, so tourists make the day trip from Venice. It is crowded during the tourist season, but I went there towards the end of the day and go the place mostly to myself.

The typical Burano's houses are mainly squared-shaped and are divided into two or three floors. At the low ground there is the kitchen, the breakfast nook and the toilet. At the next floors there are the bedrooms. There are currently around 2000 to 3000 residents in this island.

LightMagic

New Posts From Europe and the U.S.

Comments and feedback appreciated!

The Eiffel Tower and Pont Alexandre III nearing Sunset – A dull cloudy day in Paris until the sun wedged out between clouds, and Paris lit up with this scene.

A Tree Lined Drive to a Mansion near Bruges, Belgium.

Louvre Museum And Pool Reflection in Paris, France - Always beautiful, the cloudless skies and the lack of crowds made this a stop and shoot moment.

Lobster Cove near Manchester-by-the-Sea Massachusetts is my new favorite oceanfront location. This site was exploding with Fall Foliage when we visited.

A Little Rain Gives Solitude To A Stroller - He said the rain cleared the crowds and lets him enjoy peaceful strolls along Pont Neuf and the River Seine in Paris.

Sunset Over Cemetery in Dijon France - I shot this unusual lighting as the sun was setting behind me, getting dark except for a beam of light on the trees.

A Fashionable Stroller in the Rain on Pont Neuf, Paris.

I shot this pond for the rippling water and multi-colored blurred stone background. The ducks stole the focus, but I liked the effect..

Ranchland near Calabasas, CA. This former Home of the Chumash "Indians," is largely unchanged in 1,000s of years.

Walden Pond - The view from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau, and probably my only selfie ever, snapped by my Canon time-lapse shutter release...

Mystical Lighting and Cloud Cover Over a Church

Autumn scene with backlit leaves and cloudy skies on Coastal Scenic Route 127 in Massachusetts, my new favorite east coast highway.

A brownstone near Washington Square in New York City, NY - In the same neighborhood as the Home Studio of Annie Leibovitz - JohnBrody.com / John Brody Photography.

Sacre Coeur Basilica and the Montmartre hillside artist colony which was a training ground for a long list of painters including van Gogh, Dalí, Monet, & Picasso.

Gothic Backstreet in Dijon France. Some buildings were hundreds of years old; a few dated as old as a 1,000 years.

Thanks much, John

Brody

Re: photo association (the dgrin game!)

Richard

Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
February 2016

Well a little late to posting these images, daytime job kept getting in the way.

Lady Aurora’s breathtaking display on a chilly (-42F) February night in Canada’s North West Territories (NWT).

Sights and sounds (yes, heard faint, static crackle) of the aurora where amazing.

One of the best nights of aurora displays that I have had the pleasure to witness and to photograph.

Add photographing the aurora, in winter, in the NWT to your bucket list!!

El Gato

A variety of images from my travels :)

Comments and feedback appreciated!

Autumn Colored backlit leaf with water droplet bokeh in the background. A big image of a tiny one-inch leaf.
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Moonrise Over Pont des Arts Paris
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Salt Marshes and Small Village in New England. I made a wrong turn and this is what I found. - A great mistake.....
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A winter scene of field and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
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Moonrise over the Louvre Museum and I.M. Pei (RIP) Pyramid in Paris France
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Covered Bridge in Fall in Southern New Hampshire
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Just an Average New England House in Autumn on Coastal Scenic Route 127 in Massachusetts, my new favorite road...
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Misty River in New England
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Thanks much, John

Brody

First Light At Hunts Mesa

dlplumer

Re: Upcoming Lightbox improvements (2019 edition)

You folks did well. I like the clean design. I rather like having the title/caption/keyword and basic photo information up all at once. Having the copyright immediately visible is very welcome.
But there are always niggles
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To the extent possible, I'd prefer never having text on top of the image. Is there some way to move the title (or the VIEW PHOTO DETAILS message when there is no title) off the image, to the side, above, or below, when there's space? User custom CSS can probably do something here, but it won't be trivial to have it adapt to where the available space is.
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Along the same lines, I look forward to having the buy button as part of the list of lightbox controls at the far left. Hiding it via CSS is a likely option for me too.
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The solid background on the buy button is a design element that is totally unlike any other on the page. If it can't move, a transparent background would be much more in keeping with the rest. That one's easy in user CSS, of course.
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Yes, do make it more obvious how to close the big information sidebar.
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I can only test the mobile lightbox via Firefox's Responsive Design tools, but while things look good in portrait orientation, the situation in landscape orientation seems inferior to the current mobile lightbox. While I don't love the current approach of text overlaying image, the new approach of toggling between an image display and a text display seems worse. Is that really what's going to happen or is that an artifact of Firefox's tool?
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I too miss the sizes button, although I recognize I'm one of the very few who worries about the sharpness difference between display copies and browser-scaled images.