We’re in Venice! And our ‘home’ for two weeks is a 17th century palazzo on the Grand Canal. While we normally begin each series of posts on a new place with a review of our latest holiday rental, we couldn’t resist starting Venice with a time-lapse sequence of the spectacular view from our latest digs. This is our Venice’s Grand Canal Time-lapse.
Just as I did with the time-lapse sequences in Kotor, Montenegro, I’ve simply put the camera on a tripod pointed at something scenic and left it for a few hours. However, this time, because of the number of hours and the number of frames I was trying to capture, I had to restart the counter every couple of hours. That’s not such a hardship when you’re staying on Venice’s beautiful Grand Canal…
This would have been okay, except I had to keep making spritzes for Lara and the visiting travel blogger Nomadic Matt who came to see how the other half lives (ahem), so there are a couple of gaps of a minute or so in places where I had to entertain Matt’s new-found affection for Aperol…
Fun facts: 1589 frames. Shot from 5:20pm to 9:53pm. Music written and played by yours truly on my laptop keyboard using Apple’s GarageBand software.
This is now the new HD (High Definition) version.
I love your Time Lapse series. Do you actually take photographs of the scene and stitch them together? Or are these videos?? I like the view from your room…very E.M. Forster but in Venice.
Venice!!! How cool! Can’t wait to read all your stories! :)
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What a fantastic view you have! I’m so jealous!
I love the part where the light drops at dusk. It’s like a magic wand has been waved…
And the Spritz is highly addictive. We bought a bottle of Aperol as soon we got home from Italy. A perfect drink for our Aussie summer, don’t you think?
Jen, glad you like them! These are individual photos put together as a movie.
Cheers,
T
A perfect drink for an Aussie summer indeed. The Italians have living sorted.
Cheers,
T
It *is* very cool! And we’ve been here 7-8 times now and I love it more and more each time. Our stories will being going up for next 10 days. :)
It *is* gorgeous! Some people might be put off by the vaporetto stopping right out front, but our view is over the top of it, as you can see above, and I find it fascinating watching the people who get on and off – we’re seeing so many more Italians than tourist, going off to work, going shopping, taking their kids to and from school, and just generally going about their business. Nice.
I loved especially that great late afternoon atmosphere…gorgeous. Enjoy your stay!
Thanks so much. It’s so beautiful, I’m glad I captured a small part of it.
Cheers!
Hi Lara and Terence,
Great video , loved the shadows creeping up the buildings.What a great way to capture a city location. I think my favourite cities are those with water running through but Venice takes it to a different level.
Thanks, Alison. Much appreciated.
See you soon Venice!!
Enjoy Venice, Christian! It’s one of our favourite cities and it’s wonderful at this time of year.