Atop-Santa-Maria-Della-Salute

During my several trips along the Grand Canal in Venice, I struggled

to get a good view of the statue at the top of the Basilica Santa

Maria della Salute at the narrow finger of land between the Grand

Canal and Bacino di San Marco. Until recently reviewing images, I did

not know my sigma 17-70mm lens reached far enough to show this art.

Built on a platform of 1,000,000 wooden piles and constructed of

Istrian stone and marmorina (brick covered with marble dust), the

Basilica Santa Maria della Salute is a Roman Catholic church built as

an offering to the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Health or

Deliverance/Salute for the city’s deliverance from a plague beginning

the summer of 1630 in Venice that killed nearly 140,000 people.

Comments and critique welcome

Wayne,

  Wonderful image with amazing details, the sky just adds to the image.  Thanks for the history.  Take care, Patsy

Hi Wayne,

Excellent detail developed at 70 mm focal length.

At this range , using F/4.5, even the clouds are in focus.

This indicates that the subject was over 125 feet away from you.

Your information provided is very interesting to read, too.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Thanks, Patsy and Mike for your comments.  I was a little surprised this image had this level of clarity.  Not only because of the distance but I was traveling down the canal on a vaporetto (water bus) at the time.  I guess dumb luck on the camera settings.