The above photo is one of my favourites from the few days I spent in Venice back in 2004. It was taken from St Mark’s Campanile and shows the amazing St. Mark’s Square. The small round dots in the shadowed area on the left side of the square are tables for people to enjoy a coffee around. It is definitely another place I want to revisit sometime in the future and some of the best views of the city can be seen from this point.

I have recently been going through some of my first digital photographs and the above was taken on a short trip to Venice. It may not be a traditional Venetian sight, but there was a large Jewish community in this small area of Venice that we walked through and the memorial pictured above really touched me at the time. There will be less morbid images of the city of Venice to come in the next few days.

Photographs of this particular sunrise have been published before, but I wanted to share with you the very first image taken that early morning on the beach at Pula, Sardinia. This was the first glimpse of the sun and the camera was zoomed in to 135mm. I love the dark reds and purples in the sky and the reflection of the brighter oranges on the Mediterranean Sea at the bottom of the frame.

The Sant Efis Hotel just outside Pula in the south of Sardinia has one of the nicest swimming pools I have had the pleasure to both photograph and swim in. Back in September 2007 my parents and I stayed here and as I have just finished my degree, I was thinking of holidaying. However, it will have to wait as I neither have the money nor the time, as I am now starting the process of taking my photography from part-time earner to full-time career. My future is exciting…