Forfatter: Carsten

Oversætter | Translator

I dag vil jeg prøve at anvende denne automatiske oversætter.
Jeg vil benytte lejligheden til at sige tak for de positive kommentarer til mine billeder på bloggen. Både her, og dem på min e-mail.
Denne oversættelse ser for mig ud til at fungere tilfredsstillende. Oven i købet kan jeg også høre udtalen.
Prøv at brug den, der er mange muligheder.

Today I will try to use this automatic translator.
I take this opportunity to say thanks for the positive comments for my pictures on the blog. Both here and those on my e-mail.
This translation seems to me to function satisfactorily. On top of that, I can also hear the pronunciation. Try to use it, there are many possibilities.

Portrait – again

My contribution to Scott Thomas’ assignment about portraiting is this image of a smiling girl.
The image was shot on a black background. I used two soft lights, one about 45 deg in front to her left and one about 90 deg to her right. 

The technical data are: Canon 7D with EF100mm f/2,8L Macro
Exposure:  ISO400, 1/125s,  f/4.5
Raw processing: Capture One.
Cropping and jpeg processing: PS CS3

Dagens portræt| Portrait of today

Scott Thomas has set up his 9th assignment: Portraiture.
Go to his blog and read the rules. I’m sure you are welcome to join in.
The portrait of today could be my contribution, but I’m thinking of something different.

Scott Thomas har givet endnu en opgave. Det drejer sig om portrætter. Klik ind på hans blog og læs om det. Du er velkommen til at deltage. Jo flere, jo sjovere. Dagens portræt kunne være med, men jeg finder nok ud af noget andet inden fristens udløb.

Sand, water and light.

After spending a l o o o o n g time trying to figure out how to present a slideshow I changed my mind and post this instead. -I think there may be a function in the hosted wordpress to make slideshows. I can’t find a useful plugin for my site here. If anyone knows how to do, I’d be glad to know.

Fresh water is making many interesting patterns crossing the flat beach.
Click to view larger images.

Kandestederne

This post is a contribution to Scott Thomas’ assignment #8. Read about it on his site and feel free to join with your own input.

Part of this years summer vacation took place in Kandestederne – a locality very close to the northernmost point in Denmark.
The landscape consists primarily of sand dunes with a flora dominated by Heather, Leymus and European Beachgrass. There are a couple of hotels and a place for camping in the area –  in addition to the small houses that can be rented for vacation. I don’t know how many there are. 100 – 200 at the most, I think.
There are only a few farmers there, struggling against the sand – it seems as if horses and summer tourists are what  makes their income.

The nature is not suited for agriculture because of the sand. The currents in the water erodes the coast and the strong wind from the North Sea blows the sand into the land. Our forefathers had a very hard job fighting the sand and they planted grasses and Shore Pine to stop the sand drift.
In this harsh area the government decided to protect one of the dunes so that people in the future - (us) could see what their ancestors had to fight. This area is called:Råbjerg Mile.  About 1 square km and 10 million tons of sand moving at a speed of 18 m (59 ft.) pr. year.

This huge mass of sand is full of motives for photographers. I want to show you a few of mine shots from this.
First a view in B&W:

And then some details of the rains and the winds work on the texture:
This topography reminded me of Star Wars:

Endless ripples – changing from one minute to the next…

Layers of dark, heavier particles arranged one day, eroded by slightly different wind direction the next day: