Winter

Hornbæk-13mars2011W0036It is cold and darkness comes early. Many days when writing is intense I look up and see what short before was light is now dark. That is not good because many ways are icy, anyway I don’t like to walk in the dark. Well, I don’t like sitting inside all day either. Today I looked up in time, took the warm cloths on and walked down the road.

Hornbæk-15dec-2010-W-0040I took the right turn on Strandvejen and then, nearly direct turned left on Havnevej. After a few minutes I were in the harbour. This is my number one spot for taking pictures. Many times I just have too take a short look to see if the scene has any pictures in it. Hornbæk-15dec-2010-W-0065Today the harbour looked grey and gloomy. To be sure pictures wasn’t hiding for me I walked as far out in the harbour I could. I stood there for some minutes looking at the land in the east where I once belonged. I am still a citizen of that country, but the land of the west coast of this beautiful straight called Öresund is since many years my home.

Hornbæk-15dec-2010-W-0079I was surprised to see so many boats in the water where ice was starting to get a good hold. When I moved here 24 years ago people always took their boats on land when summer was gone.

Hornbæk-16dec-2010-W-0126A few more days of low temperatures and the boats with be in big trouble. Having the boats in the icy water was good for my pictures. Another day, I thought on my way back from the outskirts of the harbour. Then I noticed how the light was changing. The sun, just an hour before disappearing for the day suddenly made it’s way through the clouds. Hornbæk-15dec-2010-W-9975I stayed and started to take pictures. When I do I always get surprised how the light can change so fast and how pictures can be totally different if I just move my camera a few centimetres.

Hornbæk-16dec-2010-W-0160This is the delight of taking pictures. You get constant reminded of the world is changing. I don’t think to muck with the camera in my hand, when I do I think about how to move to take a better picture. Good for me is to discover something new, to see something that surprises me and to do so you have to move. The distance is essential. I go close and I go far away to see how the pictures change. I go as high as I can and I lay down. Hornbæk-16dec-2010-W-0158Most of the times I like the pictures that appear when laying low rather than climbing high. When you look at my pictures from the icy harbour you can see the difference between the “normal” pictures and the mirror pictures. It is a much greater challenge to discover the mirrors.

Tomas Polvall
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DK 3100 Hornbæk
Danmark

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