When you go to Scandinavia in winter, the colours of the sunrise turn almost immediately into those of the sunset. The light filtered through the trees so beautifully that I had to capture it. The last remnants of snow add just a little detail to the fore-edge, so this photo is not entirely made up of silhouettes.
The story behind this photo is special, though. The winter this year was much less severe than last year. Back then it reached -30 degrees, now it was sometimes +7 during the day. That had one big advantage: you could photograph calmly during the day without gloves on. And the snow on the lakes melted away, but because it could freeze solid at night, we got a fantastic ice surface in return: an ice rink 14 km long and 2 km wide!
One drawback, though, was that the little hill over which the access road to our house ran turned into an ice rink. Impossible to drive down because you started spinning around with snow chains when the back of the car started overtaking the front. We laughed a lot about it though, especially when we got back down without damage!
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…