Category: Venice

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Couple photo portraits in the squares of Venice

Russian couple jumping in Piazza San Marco during a honeymoon photo shooting in Venice
Piazza San Marco is the most famous square in Venice, the only one called “piazza” instead of “campo” and a common background for couple photo portraits in Venice.
During my wedding, engagement and honeymoon photo services in Venice I like to use squares as backgrounds for my couple photo portraits.
As a matter of fact, squares in Venice are not called “piazza” (Italian for squares). Except for two of them (Piazzale Roma and Piazza San Marco), they are called “campi” which literary means “fields” since they used to be meadows vegetable gardens. Continue reading “Couple photo portraits in the squares of Venice”
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A lovely Orthodox wedding and a lovely photo walk in Venice

An overhead shot captures a couple kissing tenderly, perfect for a wedding album. The woman, in her white dress and blonde hair, embraces the man in his dark suit tightly—a moment the photographer beautifully immortalizes.
Russian couple marrying in an Orthodox Church in Venice
A young Russian couple hired me to shoot their Orthodox wedding ceremony in Venice

I was lately hired by a young lovely Russian couple to shoot their Orthodox wedding in Venice. The ceremony took place in San Zan Degolà Church, one of the few Orthodox churches in Venice which I already had the chance to portray during a former wedding photo service.

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Alleys of Venice: ancient stories and professions and background for photo shootings

bride and groom hug in an alley during a wedding photo shooting in Venice
Venetian alleys work well as background for my wedding, honeymoon and engagement photo services in Venice

Unlike most cities all over the world, Venice only has one street (Strada in Italian): the so called “Strada Nuova” in the Cannaregio district. It was once a channel and was transformed into a road in the 19th century by filling it with earth. Its length and width are something exceptional in Venice. Continue reading “Alleys of Venice: ancient stories and professions and background for photo shootings”