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.
The 8 House 2, Copenhagen 2014
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The Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
I’ve just got a shot accepted for a group exhibition! The headline is “Field notes: Landscape and Architecture”. Frankly I can’t tell you why I submitted. I didn’t think I’d make to the exhibit because when I see architecture photography it seems a much more grand way of showing than I use. But the gallery is in Portland, a city I feel connected to, so I pushed the PayPal button and went through my files.
Field Notes: Landscape and Architecture, June 1-20, 2013
Black Box Gallery, 811 East Burnside St. Suite 212, Portland Oregon 97214
I’m very excited about this shot below being selected. It’s from the series I shot late last summer at The 8 House. I had only been photographing for about a month at that time. You can see all the shots from that area here.
The 8 House – 13, 2012
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.”
The 8 House – 12, 2012
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.
The 8 House – 11, 2012
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.
The 8 House – 9, 2012
In a country with no mountains or hardly even hills the objective of The 8 House – to build a mountain village – really stands out. In the background is the unrestircted view of the preserved area Vestamager.
One of the features of The 8 House is the pathway that runs up and down the complex for almost 1 mile. Lately I’ve noticed that two of the entrance points to the pathway have been labelled ‘Private’ though I know that was not the original idea. It is possible to enter from the other end of the complex without being met by that sign.
The 8 House – 8, 2012
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…
The 8 House – 7, 2012
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.
The 8 House – 5, 2012
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.
8-Tallet 4, 2012
Another shot of the café on the corner of The 8 Number complex – the one with the unrestricted view of the nature reserve. I was looking for lines, though, not scenery 🙂
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