While I was watching these beautiful creatures (who ever said the Ugly Duckling was ugly?) through my lense, two children tried to get close enough to pet them.
They didn’t come to any harm. I think the swan mom must be unsually calm. But don’t ever try to get near swans! They are huge birds, strong enough to brake an arm with their beak andusually aggresive when it comes to defending their young.
As I walked around the moat at Kronborg Castle I came upon this family of swans. So did all the other turists but I managed to find an angle without people. For this shot as well as the next I had to get down on the grass which was hard on my nylons. I don’t know what I was thinking of – wearing a dress with my camera…
Kronborg Castle is the most famous castle in Denmark. It was allegedly the home of Hamlet and certainly one of the most important Renaissance castle in Northern Europe – and I didn’t take a picture of it…
I only had a short time there, I stick my promise to not photograph the obvious, and I didn’t enter the castle.
What you see here is part of the battlement reflecting in the moat. The reflection was only the second thing I noticed. The first thing was the line of downspouts.
The last picture of this session at the 8 House was also taken from across the artificial lake and still without tripod. I had spent 1 1/2 hour from dusk to darkness walking around and photographing. When I got home I was asked what I had been doing. “Didn’t you even have coffee?” “No, I didn’t have time.”
On the night I visited the 8 House with my camera it was complety quiet. I realized that the complex reflected in the still water of the artificial lake and move to the other side of the lake to catch the full reflection.
I have no used no tripod on any of these shots. My Nikon lenses have vibration control and it works like a wonder. It was pitch dark by then but still the picture came out this clear.
This is not unlike a picture in a former post – only at night – a lovely, warm summers night that was perfect for sitting outside in the dark.
The interior of the café is seen through the open door, the artificial lake and the undisturbed land to the right and the illuminated path leading up seven stories high in the middle.
In the near darkness the effect of the light from the passages works differently than earlier in the evening.
Again, as darkness was descending, new aspects of the 8 House revealed themselves. The repeating patterns, the reflecting and non-reflecting surfaces, the use of the light…
Another example of what you won’t discover, walking around the 8 House in full daylight. I don’t know if Bjarke Ingels realized that the vertical white lights would point to the red lit door in the background. He might well have.
This brings to mind some modern art I’ve seen. The use of color in The 8 House is someting I hadn’t noticed until I spent an evening there.
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