Venice Lagoon: Late Afternoon by sandra46

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jan 18, 2015

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Description

The low tide gives herons, little egrets and other birds a chance to capture small crabs and tiny fish in the meandering canals. The Venetian Lagoon has a surface area of around 550 square kilometres (210 sq mi) and is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin. It is around 8% land, including Venice itself and many smaller islands. About 11% is permanently covered by open water, or canal, as the network of dredged channels are called, while around 80% consists of mud flats, tidal shallows and salt marshes. Thanks for your kind comments.

Comments (30)

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claude19

11:15AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

splendid bird flying above this unlimited panoramic capture !!!

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Faemike55

11:17AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

Very beautiful capture and fascinating information

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drifterlee

11:19AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

Very beautiful shot, Sandra!!!!!

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lyron

11:24AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

Beautiful image!!

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durleybeachbum

11:29AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

What a fantastic habitat it must be.

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giulband

11:50AM | Sun, 18 January 2015

WOW !!! Very very very beautiful image !!!

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Radar_rad-dude

12:49PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

A fine photo, Sandra! Thanks for the information as well! Most appreciated!

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Cyve

12:51PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

WOW... It'sabsolutely FABULOUS... Wonderfully done my friend !!!

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eekdog

1:14PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

Beautiful area capture.

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jayfar

2:15PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

That bird is a super capture on this glorious landscape shot Sandra.

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mickeyrony

3:12PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

That look nice and different.... Thank for all ((5++))

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wysiwig

4:14PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

An outstanding capture and that sky is wonderful.

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magnus073

7:24PM | Sun, 18 January 2015

Sandra, this is a marvelous capture that was perfectly timed. Looking on at the photo you almost feel like your one of them, swooping in to gather up the small crabs and fish while the tides are low. Thanks for the bit of background info that made this image really stand out.

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