They are the colours of the Dutch flag. Red, white, blue and the slanting lines also make it look like it's waving in the wind. But, it is a piece of the hull of a classic clinker sailing ship. A scandinavian sharp yacht. It was lying on the shore at a museum yard in northern Germany in Greifswald. One of those shipyards that survived modernisation, the East German period and everything that happened after the unification of the Germanies. The yard no longer maintains and builds fishing vessels, but repairs and renovates classic ships, old schooners and cutters and yachts. And so that is also where this classic yacht lies, waiting for the bad parts to be sawn out of the hull and the rotten parts to be replaced. And then, in a few years, a new loving owner can launch his bright red hull again and explore the Baltic Sea between Germany, Sweden and Denmark with full sails.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…