A Walk On The Dyke
I went on a trip to the North Sea last weekend, the guys from my office invited me, so I tagged along. The goal was to collect ideas about where their business should head in 2009, but of course I was also armed with cameras and heaps of film.
After 5.5 hours on the road we finally got there on Friday night, and had just time to settle in in front of the fireplace, and to make risotto of course.
The next day started early for me. Well, early for a weekend. I wanted to go and buy some groceries, so I set the alarm for 8:45. I got up, and when I looked out the window I saw red streaks on the clouds, so I ran and packed all of my gear. I came out just in time to see the golden light of the sunrise. So pretty.
I shot one roll just like that with the Holga. I armed myself with 800 film, since I’ve grown pretty fond of it for the winter time. It works even when the sun is fully out. I walked along the dyke, and there was not a soul around. Actually, it’s a holiday village, so most of the houses were totally empty.
Now, I can’t really stay in places like this for longer than a few days just doing nothing, but I did enjoy being in a different environment to get some new things in front of my camera.
Saturday was pretty fun, we started the day with presentations of what each of us thinks the company should do. After we were done we went out for a nice walk. The sun was out, and there were four people with cameras. It almost felt like a Flickr walk.
The only thing really worth mentioning in Burhave was their nice and long pier. Now these always make for nice photo shoots. Thankfully there weren’t that many people around, so at one point we had the pier to ourselves.
The holiday apartment had a sauna, so that was a must on Saturday night. Obviously, since the town was far out in the country, there wasn’t much else to do anyway. So we hopped into the sauna, and made pizza afterwards.
It was a full moon night too, so around midnight I went out and tried some long exposures with the Holga, since I just recently bought the remote shutter kit. I’m not a big fan of long exposures per se, but they can be fun from time to time. Of course in this case haunting would be a more fitting description.
I have yet to upload the majority of the shots, but the above should give you an idea. It was a really nice trip, slightly too short, but still, nice to do stuff like this in places other than an office.
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