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Here is a collection of alley pictures I took in Venice, by day and then after dark. The last one is looking down to the door of our apartment.

On coming out of the gallery we boarded a vaporetto for the short distance to the island of Guidecca as we wanted to visit the church of Redentore. This is another large baroque church, built again to commemorate the city's liberation from the plague of 1576. It is more interesting inside than Santa Maria della Salute, or so I thought. We were returning to the UK in the morning and, rather than travel back to the airport on the bus, we thought we would get the launch that goes across the lagoon, straight in to the terminal. This involved going up to the railway station to buy the tickets. The vaporetto took us most of the way and then we had to cross the modern bridge, the Ponte Callatrava to get inside the station. We purchased our tickets, by which time it was dark. The launch was not much fun by the way. The passengers have to sit pressed together downstairs and there is no view. After supper I went out to photograph the alleys again, my last opportunity, but I will post th...

It was out last full day in Venice, and we set out after a late breakfast to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection which is housed in a single storey palazzo in the Dorsoduro area of the city. This 18th century building was intended to reach up to 4 floors but never got beyond the ground one, hence it's name, Il Palazzo Nonfinito. It was bought by Peggy Guggenheim in 1949 as a home and she filled it with works of modern art, especially of those artists she patronised. It is a wonderful collection, housed in beautiful large and airy rooms and a good contrast to the rather stuffy churches and other museums in Venice. Here are also sculptures in the gardens and great views down the Grand Canal. As we walked down to cross the Ponte Accademia to Dorsoduro the sun was fairly high and reflecting off from the cobbles giving a remarkable warm light.

Still having the infrared camera on me we left the naval Museum and took the vaporetto over to Santa Maria della Salute, the church immediately across the lagoon from Piazza San Marco. This great baroque edifice was built to celebrate the end of the plague in 1670. The interior is a large rather characterless space. Following our visit we crossed back to San Marco over the Ponte Accademia and went back to the apartment. I have converted all of these infrared pictures to monochrome.