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Amager 8, 2013

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Karin Ott

From “Signs of spring“:

The transition from darkness to light is marked by signs deeply ingrained in the natives. Every child knows the sequence of the flowers – eranthis, snowdrop, crocus – these milestones in measuring the progress. Every adult will stop and sniff the air through layers of winter clothes on the day of the undefinable turning point. And we all notice how the sun will finally both warm us to our chilled bones and mercilessly reveal the dirty windows and the dust piled up through the dark months.

Spring is a time of anticipation with summer still far enough in the future to promise to fulfil every dream we ever had.

Amager 7, 2013

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Karin Ott

From “Signs of Spring“:

The concept of spring is vital to the Danish people. We are a nation of bi-polars. At the darkest time of year we have only eight hours of light while at midsummer it gets light at 5 a.m. and only barely dark by 11 p.m. In the winter we ground, bundle up, almost hibernate, and often tempers are as short as the day. In the summer we are transformed to outgoing people eager to make the most of every single moment of the gift of light.

Amager Beach 7 – 2012

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The water between Denmark and Sweden is very shallow. This is the reason for the construction to the right. It’s a pier for jumping in the water and for tanning out of the wind. The construction is a pretty amazing piece of architecture and I need to go back one day with my camera and spend some time.

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I’m sorry about my resent instability. My goal is to post one picture a day – and do it every day. This time my excuse is related to photos. I’ve spent all day yesterday working on my latest website, and I’m pretty darn proud that I shot all the pictures that I use for the design.

I decided to go with the theme of water. I also locked myself into using a black/white/red color scheme. Finally the water had to surround the island, I live on.

The pictures don’t look their best yet. I used the ‘kindergarten’ tools – color conversion on my Nikon and fine tuning with Picasa. In time they’ll get top notch Photoshop treatment. But if you want to see the result so far it’s here: http://www.karinott.dk (the content is in Danish so don’t expect to understand it :-))

Amager Beach 5 – 2012

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What have we here? An invasion from outer space?

Nearly. The picture is taken on a large lawn right next to Amager Beach. The following day there was a small yoga festival. I did attend, with my camera, but this picture of the tents devoid of people was a far better motiv than anything else I saw.

Amager Beach 4 – 2012

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As a rare treat you get two for one this time. I couldn’t decide which one to use but the photoes are too alike to warrent separate posts. Juping down was my daughter’s idea after a while of climbing up and down the wall while I was photographing. In the distance you can just make out a tall white structure to the right – that is Turning Torso in Malmø, Sweden.

Amager Beach 3 – 2012

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I posted some pictures taken at Amager Beach (Amager Strand) a while back. Today and tomorrow I have a couple more to show you – this time from when I took my daughter there for ice cream.

This particular place is my favorite along the beach. It’s called Strandtorvet, and you can get great ice cream from a 50’ies camper and eat it while lookin across Øresumd to Sweden or watch people ride Segways, play minigolf, lie on the sand, rollerskate or practice kiteboarding. If you want peace and quiet, just go on a weekday.