Search for simplicity,
the old and the sea
or just a failure (Part 3)

A new day, a new search for pictures out there, in an empty timeslot...

As a photographer I prefer to pick the right moment depending on light and not on time, but when there is a schedule I will have to do it the other way around, try to find the light when there is time.  Apparently the light don't know that! Bad cooperation? 

So I  will have to choose my picture subjects  depending on the lightrestrictions . Do I rememember that? Not always, my eyes fooles me (or, to be more precise: my brain). That is: I optimistically take bad pictures when I don't remember what I actually know.

Green, green grass (as above) will often work  in the conditions I had this morning. . But actually the lighthouse is the subject. Without it, the picture will be dead.

The lighthouse is the point of interest in the picture, but  not only because it is an object in the picture.  It also  tells us  a story from the old days, when it stood here as an sole guardian against the darkness, alone with the sea.

Approaching  the building, I come to think of Hemingways novel from 1952, and I felt the lighthouse was as alone as the old man in his boat.

The old and the Sea.

I made the association in Swedish (of course?), and it is an difference between the English and the Swedish titles. No man is mentioned in the Swedish title: "Den gamle och havet" ( The Old and the Sea), but in the original: "The Old Man and the Sea".

So old can be a lighthouse as well as a man... Q.E.D. ?

Simplicity

Being alone with the sea, made me  think of simplicity, just water and horizon, so I started to consider simplification...

Less is more...

...and no colours.

Just shapes

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... then the timeslot was used ... and its reality, much better than  my pictures ...

maybee just a failure

but not

because I remember the reality

Meeting again...

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