Captured: Venice from Above

he Venice Film Festival opened on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 with stars, movie-goers and photographers descending on the famed city. Dan Kitwood, an entertainment photographer from Getty, took the opportunity to make some aerial images of Venice.

The “City of Water” is located in northeast Italy, spanning 118 islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Buildings in Venice were constructed on wood piles driven into the mud, sand and clay layers under the lagoon. Many of the buildings in Venice still sit on these piles driven more than a thousand years ago.

Captured Blog: Above Venice

1. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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2. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.” (AP Photo/Sun-News, Steve Jessmore) #

 

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3. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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4. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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5. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

Captured Blog: Above Venice

6. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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7. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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8. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

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9. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

Captured Blog: Above Venice

10. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”

 

Captured Blog: Above Venice

11. Vesta McKnight drove in from Hemingway,S.C., to do some early morning fishing on the Atlantic at Pawleys Island, S.C., but found conditions a bit rougher near sunrise on Friday Sept. 5, 2008, than he expected as Tropical Storm Hanna arrives. “I’m not going to fish today,” he said. “I think I’m going to just watch.”