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Ochre
This earthen pigment of iron, clay and sand reigns supreme in Venice.  One can almost believe the beautiful old palazzi along the grand canal would not exist if not for the texture of the brownish-yellow, orange and red hues supporting them.

This one was supposedly taken with long focal length lens! Nice!

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PDE

I forget.  I was using a zoom lens at the time but I was in a gondola not too far away.  In all honesty the situation was so magical to me I am not sure what I was doing.