Nepal? Tibet? A temple?
What would be your guess?
Well, it’s none of the above – just a row of lovely bells hanging from the temporary scaffold outside Café Tranquebar in the middle of a busy street. The eye sees what the eye wants to see…
It seems that Tiffany lamps are back in style – or perhaps they never left. Even as an adult I love the coloured glass lamps for the same reasons that I love stained glass windows.
These lamps were a resent addition to what you can buy at Café Tranquebar besides coffee and books. If the background looks dark it is with good reason.The whole room is black, ceiling and floor included. I would never have guessed it but it actually make the large room feel warm and cosy.
You may have noticed by now that I have a weakness for patterns repeating themselves. This fondness, as you might also call it, is often catered to at Café Tranquebar in Borgergade, Copenhagen – along with the best brownies in town.
As I wrote yesterday, Chrstianshavn is criss-crossed by canals. This is what some people do with them. I found this shot walking down to a café that is actually floating on one of the canals, Christianshavns Bådudlejning. You can rent the rowing boats from there.
Christianshavn, founded by King Christian VI, dates back to the early 17’th century and is more visually recognizable for the old restored buildings. But that’s for the next round of pictures from there – should be around next weekend…
I usually post ‘clean’ pictures here. In this case, though, I played with my camera’s feature of fixing one color and rendering the rest black/white.
This shot is from a part of Copenhagen called Christianshavn. It is very old land fill and is littered with canals. A little further on there’ll be a whole series from Christinashavn.
On an evening in August I returned to he 8 House (8-Tallet) to test the abilities of my Nikon D5100 to shoot pictures in the growing darkness. Almost to my surprise I spent 1.5 hour just walking around the complex and take pictures. It grew ever darker as you will see in this series of another eight pictures from Ørestad Syd. I came home with a bunch of very satisfying picture but sorting through them I felt increasingly clear about my objective: A goodlooking picture isn’t good enough if it’s only good on account of the architeture. If I did not not contribute something, a different view that was not obvious, the picture got deleted.
After following the advice of all experienced photographers and show patience I realized by my third visit to the Copenhagen Cablepark, that the story I could tell, what fascinated me, was the water. The wakeboarders were cool, awesome people but I was almost hypnotizedby the movement of the water.
And so the last picture from Ingolfs’ this time around. I can’t promise there won’t be more. It is my ‘office’ and I come here every day.
My thought here is: why do flowers have to pretty to be worth photographing? Why not simple, slightly worn down flowers?
Originally I shot the portrait of the horse from a different angle. Turned out when I had a look that this shows the front of the café from a different view than usual. I can’t claim to be the first to think of this as I feel almost positive that I have seen this before. The photo doesn’t hang in the café anymore, though.
The third of the three seasoned musketeers is perhaps more earnest in his stern expression. This is one horse you do not want to mess with!
Karins Fotos 