December 12, 20246 Comments

The Yellow Umbrella

A dark evening in a city where it is raining briskly. The street is almost deserted, shopkeepers have just turned out the lights and closed their stores. Two people are walking down the street talking and laughing under a yellow umbrella. I feel a strange desire to know what the two are laughing about....

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December 11, 20248 Comments

Dream Of A Disintegrated City

When Laura Ann Reed, a friend and poet from the US, sent me a new poem she had written, her words spoke to me so strongly that I immediately had a vision that for me matched her words. Moreover, I also immediately knew which two 10-year-old photos I had to put together to make the image I had in mind.

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December 10, 20248 Comments

A Lonely Morning

Fresh snow, as far as the eye can see. The forest looks spacious, light, and larger than usual. It is quiet, and the world feels deserted. Only the muffled crunch of our footsteps in the fresh snow.

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November 17, 20248 Comments

Scents Of The Night

A special calm comes over the evening when the sun begins to disappear behind the horizon and the light of the day fades away. Nature awaits the night.
I love that quiet moment of the day and the scents that announces the coming of night.

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October 18, 20246 Comments

My Blue Sea

A morning by the sea, the water is called back by the tide, bringing the beach back to the land. Thousands of waves, as far as the eye can see, weave together like an infinite blue sheet...

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August 29, 20242 Comments

Reflections Of Life

Reflections Of Life

Sitting alone near the pond
seeing the day fade
All things are reflections,
distorted by our mind
Only the heart sees pure
Only body and soul tell what’s right

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August 28, 20244 Comments

A Cold Breeze After The Rain

A heavy rain storm just passed the Flade Sø, a lake directly behind the dunes of the North Sea and part of the Nationalpark Thy...

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August 22, 20242 Comments

Velvet Sea

A morning by the sea, the water is called back by the tide, bringing the beach back to the land. Thousands of waves, as far as the eye can see, weave together like an infinite velvet sheet.

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August 10, 20242 Comments

Evanescent

Late in the afternoon on a clear winter day, two barnacle geese fly towards the low sun. The sunlight seems to dissolve them in the cold winter air.

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August 7, 20242 Comments

Colorful Sunset

What color is the sea? Blue, gray, brown?

None of those. The sea has the color of the sky, of the sun, of the clouds. The oceans are the soul of the earth and reflect the mood of everything that uses them as a mirror.

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August 6, 20242 Comments

Disturbed Souls

Out for a walk early in the morning on a beautiful sunny winter day, I see a group of gulls fight each other for a piece of bread....

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