The city of Venice attracts millions of tourists each year. In 2019, around 36 million visited and typically stay within 3 square miles of the city. For a city that only has 50,000 residents, the pace of the visitors must seem unrelenting. Each day, they get up early to get ready for the surge of tourists. Being an early riser, I headed out of our hotel located at St. Mark’s Square and headed out to shoot the early morning sun. The sidewalks were almost empty, a sharp contrast to the hordes that would be there only a few hours later and would stay to the late evening. The only other people to be found were either getting their booths and carts ready for the day or workers waiting for the Vaporetto (public transportation water buses) to head to their place of business.