Dave's Gaze
Venice Masqueraders
1 of 6Masqueraders of the Venice Carnival of 2026.
They drift through the narrow Venetian streets in silence, speaking only through graceful gestures to preserve their anonymity and mystery.
After Dark
2 of 6Night time creates space for wandering and play, which daylight buries beneath its relentless demands.
The Sea Comes to the Piazza
3 of 6How much longer will we have the beautiful, magical city of Venice?
My son and I were hit with that question one night when we wandered, unprepared into inches of the Adriatic Sea in San Marco Square — we hadn’t thought to check the high tide schedule.
The sea level relative to Venice ground level has been rising for over a century. Until 50 years ago, the major cause was the sinking city, due to the withdrawal of ground water. Local regulations ended most of that in the 1970s, but the relative sea level continued to rise, and then rise faster, due the new issue of global warming. The massive, $6 billion “Mose” system of floodgates at the major water inlets helps control the flooding and buy the city time, but it has its limits.
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A Smile Needs No Translation
4 of 6I know I'm doing a trip right when things start getting a little uncomfortable. That's where the best memories are born — especially the human ones, unscripted connections that stumble past the rules of language and etiquette and are all the richer for it.
US Cross Country
5 of 6Black Rock City
6 of 6Moments captured from over a decade of the all-day, all-night dusty, artistic, eclectic, musical, and totally unique cultural human experiment called Burning Man.
