It doesn’t matter if we have to bundle up. Give us a ray of sun on the other side of February 1. and you’ll find someone soaking it up.
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These chairs are part of the public room in the area around one of the libraries here on Amager.
– Sharing work from my portfolio.
The 8 House 11, Copenhagen 2014
This path didn’t have a piece of fence thrown up last time I photographed here… All the little patios are supposed to have open access but the facts of life are different. There may be children or pets to keep in – or tourists to keep out. People eager to see the awarded architecture arrive by the bus loads every weekend and many do not feel shy about stepping onto people’s private patios to peak through the windows or shoots pictures. Because of this lack of privacy the pathway appears to have become a nuisance rather than a part of the community.
The 8 House 10, Copenhagen 2014
Depending on the context, splashes of colour can be almost liberating in this very ‘clean’ environment.
The 8 House 9, Copenhagen 2014
Having followed the building since before it was even finished, it is of great interest to me to see how it matures. People are creating their own individual spaces from what was identical. As I live ten minutes from there I intend to continue to follow the area.
The 8 House 8, Copenhagen 2014
The lines of the building itself, The 8 House, are clean. All patios are designed the same and the same trees and green are planted. But they can’t keep people living here from displaying colourful plastic furniture.
The 8 House 8, Copenhagen 2014
In the past I have posted images from The 8 House showing the clean lines of the architecture. Now people are settling in for real and I find it interesting to see what happens to the architecture when subjected to real life.
The 8 House 3, Copenhagen 2014
That’s Denmark for you – bicycles parked in neat rows 🙂 Notice too the tricycles for transporting your children.
The 8 House 2, Copenhagen 2014
The 8 House? Really? Well yes, the pavement is part of the overall architecture. We just don’t look down very often. Tomorrow I’ll raise my gaze.
Copenhagen 1, 2013
This is a fun little experiment. One day early in the fall I took a friend and two cameras to Søerne in Copenhagen. This is the result of a portrait taken with a Leica D-Lux4. It’s a compact camera without interchangeable lenses but it shoots RAW format and lets you adjust aperture, shutter speed or shoot manual if you feel the need. And it looks cool. So I bought it used without being completely sure what my plans were for it. I thought it would liv win my car so I would never be without a camera but that didn’t quite work for me.
As you will see when I post another portrait in the same surroundings tomorrow, there is a big difference between the images the Leica and the Nikon will produce. I’m sure preference will be personal. I really love my Nikon so I don’t use the Leica much (as in ‘hardly at all’) but I think it might well be a better choice for street photography – if I was to get into that at some point 🙂
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