Venice Photo Tour
During your Photo Tour of Venice your professional photographic guide will point out details invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points on your chosen route. Learn to tell a story through images, take great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off the beaten track.
Classic and “Specials” Photo Walks
- Classic Photo Walk : 3 or 6 hours 1-2-1 Tuition to improve your photography and discover hidden parts of Venice. The price is €210 for 3h of €380 for 6h (The price is for the tour and you can invite up to 3 friends/guests) . The tour is 1-2-1 so there will be just you (or your family/friends) The 3h tour is based in Venice where the 6h is generally divided (for best light) in 3h sunrise and 3h sunset and usually include a visit to Burano with its magic colors.
- Gondola Photo Ride : 3 1/2 h (30min Gondola Ride) Ideal for a couple. A photography tuition, during a photographic walk around Venice and a Gondola ride. Pictures of you on Gondola and in and around Venice taken by a multi published international photographer - € 350 max 4 people (aprox 5 pictures)
- NEW!! Photo Cruise in the Venice Lagoon : 3h or 6h Cruises, maximum 8 persons, prices start at € 550 Ask for full details and prices. The best way to visit the Lagoon and some of its famous Islands like Poveglia, San Clemente, Lazzaretto, S Lazzaro, S Erasmo. etc etc
- NEW!! Guided Tour of Venice: Approx. 4h walk (max 8 people) 320€ Together with me, participants will be accompanied by a well established city guide, who loves the City, its history and legends, ready to share with you details and stories about the places visited, which in turn will help you appreciate the photographic subjects chosen by Marco, or help you choose your own.
This is a new way to visit, get to know and to see the sights of Venice, avoiding the masses of tourists and at the same time to learn new photographic skills or improve , A fantastic experience in one of the most beautiful cities of the world!
Prices are per Tour NOT per person ( and is a 1-2-1 so only you or your partner, friends, small group)
What is NOT included: Most of the times my tours are just walking tours but if we do decide to take a Water bus the fare are NOT included, same for Museums or churches!
So bring your walking shoes and be prepared to discover the mysteries of the city. Bring your camera and learn how to have more fun with your camera.
• Discover parts of Venice less traveled by tourists.
• Hear interesting tales and stories
• Take better photos
• Turn your photos into exciting stories.
• Have fun !
Let a Creative Italian Photographer walk you through the city of Venice in an unforgettable Photo Walk capturing real candid moments of your stay in beautiful pictures. Enjoy a relaxed vacation and bring home remarkable pictures of your visit.
Touring Venice can be a very exciting experience, but it can also be quite an adventure if you are unsure of which places to visit and how. Language barrier may also represent a curious obstacle but it can also be frustrating. We offer innovative and unforgettable Photographic Tours to welcome you in the most fascinating and romanitc place in the world. Experience Venice through the eyes of a native Italian Professional Photographer. He will guide you in an exclusive tour through the most interesting Venice landmarks and monuments.
All city excursions are exclusively custom-made to fit your needs. You can explore the sites whichever way you like and at your own pace.
Walking around Venice together with a professional photographer is an enlighten experience. He will show you all the tricks of the game but it is also a fun and new way to visit a city like Venice. You will be able to visit, see, experience and tour places, situations, people that would be otherwise difficult to come across. The Photo Tours will take you through off-the-beaten tracks to the most important monuments and landmarks. You will avoid the tourist pedestrian highways and will take more secluded, intimate and truly Italian passageways. Let it be romantic, creative, fun and friendly, the astounding imagery will do the rest. We will show you the right places to eat, where true Italian dwell and the hidden beauties of the wonderful city.
- Venice Photo Walk with Marco Secchi rated “excellent” by travellers
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Ephiphany
Regata della Befana with Arzana’
La Befana vien di notte
Con le scarpe tutte rotte
Col cappello alla romana
Viva, Viva La Befana!
Old wood
If gondolas are the most famous boat in Venice, they are not the only one. All kind of crafts go tirelessly all over town. A large part of them are made out of modern materials, but many old and classical wooden hulls are still in use.
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- The peaceful pleasures of Venice in winter (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
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A way of life
Acqua Alta or the high tide in Venice is a way of life and people live with it….but few things still surprise me!
Here a grocer from St Erasmo sells his vegetables in Murano during the high tide.
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The Glass Alchemist
Elena a glass artist in Murano blows glass next to a glass furnace on December 18, 2010 in Venice, Italy. There are only few female glass artists is Italy and they face continuous challenges in a traditionally male dominated field.
There are not many people (and things!) that I admire and that I could watch for hours while they work, without losing concentration after few seconds. I have seen them all…and often better. Elena is an exception, seeing her at work with glass is unreal….
Must stop moaning
- Image by ophelyee via Flickr
I have complained before about the so called Artist Block at least here and just few days ago . Today I realized that I must stop moaning, at least for the time being, and here are few of the reasons:
- I am lucky enough, in this period of my life, to leave in one of the most beautiful and inspiring places of the world: Venice.
- I live very close to the sea, probably 20 meters and I believe the sea is very inspiring
- I live about 100mt from where Tintoretto used to live and work, there are so many of his works close to me that is unbelievable.
- Venice is so rich of libraries, galleries, museums that is so easy to get inspiration.
- Life here is relaxed and at a different pace, so you do not get stressed and have all the time you need to get inspired.
- In Venice lived just to mention some Italian Artists Canova, Canaletto, Vasari, Giorgione, Mantegna, Titian….
No more excuses then!
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Venice Historic Regatta
The Historic Regatta is the most exciting rowing race on the Gran Canal for the locals and one of the most spectacular.
Every year, the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta comes back in Venice, the most traditional among the venetian events, which took place for the first time the 10th of January 1315 under the rule of the doge Giovanni Soranzo.
The sumptuous event, organized in the Serenissima times to celebrate the military victories or to honour the foreign dignitaries, today is made up of two different parts: the historical parade and the rowing boat race
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- Venice gives licence to first female gondolier (bbc.co.uk)
I am not a Playboy
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a top level intellectual political speech in Milan at the Med Forum, affirmed ” I am not a playboy anymore . I am rather a play old” The guy is unbelievable!
Unfortunately he did not stop there. Mr Berlusconi mentioned as well that he is the inventor of the “cou-cou policy”. The Italian prime minister’s odd choice of words was a reference to an incident two years ago when, at a summit in Trieste, he hid behind a lamp post before springing out in front of Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, with the words “cou-cou” (Italian for “peek-a-boo”).
After recovering from the surprise, Mrs Merkel spread her arms in welcome and said: “Oh, Silvio!”
“I inaugurated a new kind of diplomacy, peek-a-boo diplomacy … a very special kind of politics,” he told a summit of politicians and diplomats from Mediterranean countries in Milan.
14th July 2010: The Spanish (Catalan) Newspaper La Vanguardia has published one of my pictures of the above event
La Vanguardia
14 Jul 2010
Italian Fans
The World Cup may have captured the attention of the world but the football has yet to capture our imagination.
Critics have claimed that this winter World Cup is producing football to match the season. England, Argentina, Portugal, France and Italy have all failed to spark the tournament into life …
But is this really the most boring opening to any World Cup in history? Italy managed to scrap a miserable draw
Berlusconi colpito a Milano
Silvio Berlusconi e’ stato colpito al volto da un pugno. Il premier visibilmente sanguinante si e’ accasciato per terra ed e’ stato immediatamente caricato in auto. Il responsabile del gesto, un uomo, e’ stato fermato. E’ stato portato in questura. In un primo momento si era diffusa la voce che avesse colpito il premier con una riproduzione del Duomo. L’oggetto e’ caduto dalle mani dell’uomo quando lo hanno fermato e non e’ escluso che lo avesse stretto nel pugno quando ha colpito.
