Gondolas in the Desert from qatar visitor on Vimeo. Qatar (pronounced a little like cut-TER) is a country in the Middle East that is on the northern border of Saudi Arabia. The country is a peninsula on the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Qatar is an emirate that is ruled by an emir, which in Western terms is similar to a prince. What got me really interested in Qatar, besides the fact that while just ...

Here's a nice piece of video, shot from a bridge in San Marco along the walking corridor known as the Calle delle Ostreghi. The video features a column of gondolas passing by a restaurant with green awnings. If your computer can facilitate it, click on the "HD" icon to view the clip in high quality. Here's the link to the video:

It’s that season to swoop in and grab the best nights and times for the Cruise of Lights gondola ride in Huntington Beach. Ever since I rode my first gondola in Naples, California, I became a fan of an experience in which the world seems to glide by.  Carefree and pleasant, there are no noises but the gentle lap of  oars hitting the water, and your very own voices as you leave the ...

      Small plates (call them tapas, call them hors d'oeuvres, call them mezze) and cocktails: a brilliant concept when it's done right, a quagmire if you get it wrong. And so much can go wrong, so quickly. Just look at the sad-sack happy hours in all the gin joints around town; you know who they are. So what a pleasure to find a new spot that does it right, ...

... average water level, but it was just enough to wet a few places around the city, and more than enough to ground all but a few of the gondolas of the city. The basis of the tide is the gravity of the sun and the ... to the bacino are higher, just about the 100cm mark, so there was no water just behind the gondolas, unlike further in towards the basilica. This building in Rio S. Zulian, just behind ...

... When I captured this classic scene of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, with the gondolas in the foreground, I wanted to capture the light from the setting sun and convey the movement of ... gondolas in the gentle tide. Not wanting to substantially increase my ISO just to freeze the gondolas, I instead used their bobbing movement to creatively enhance my image with the blurred effect. Even with ...

... their life bbut here i am in my comfortable home...heez i been resting well ever since the end of exam. i left for hk n macau immediately the next day n i really enjoyed myself... the gondolas..the shopping.. the walking.. the playing.. and most importantly, im an ocean away from things that will probablyy upset me... like making decisions, and other stuffs that i dun wan to think about. bt ...

... the National Championship Rodeo. One convention was of commercial small plane pilots. The other was of Pearl Harbor survivors. After seeing the sights, from visiting the dolphins at the Mirage, watching the gondolas on the mini Grand Canal at the Venetian, to “winning” promotional sports shirts at the Tropicana, my father realized our entire booked time was too much Vegas. I  called ...

... the "acqua alta" (literally "high water") set in: Israel took some nice pictures of the gondolas - with and without people and also a picture of a workshop for the building of Gondolas: We stayed in the Locanda Casa Petrarca. A very basic room (like a dorm room) but clean with a big bed. The breakfast they served was really bad - ...

... XIV decided he needed one too so had this one built. Its a mile long and he had authentic gondolas brought over from Venice to be used in it. Boats would move along side the gondolas with musicians playing music so they could listen as they went. Now that is a life of luxury! I walked down one of these endless tree-lined paths to get to the Trianon area. So ...