When earlier this year I migrated my site to a new look and feel, I left out a few of the older sets. For some reason I left out a collection of photos which I shot on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen about three years ago, and today I remedied that, so here I proudly present one of the few nature sets I ever shot, and will probably ever shoot [click here to view].
As you can probably tell by browsing through this blog, my work is almost all urban related, whether I capture people or buildings. That does not mean that I don't enjoy nature, 'cause I do, it's just that nature doesn't inspire me as much as a city does. Actually, one of the perks for me of being out of city is that I feel it quite relaxing to be in an environment where I don't feel the constant urge to push a trigger. But since for every rule there's got be some exceptions, this particular set is one.
The photos were taken over an extended, partly sunny, partly stormy week-end on the island of Rügen, off Germany's Baltic Sea coast. I used the Diana+, a camera I haven't really used in a few years. The Diana+ was always my bad weather camera since it uses a shutter speed of 1/60, and I used it regularly during autumn and winter, but have sadly neglected it over the last years. Looking at these photos, I think that is a bit of a shame - the Diana magic comes out nicely in these pics. Well, it's never too late, because, as they say, winter will come....
