Placeholder artwork: low sun over still water, long reflection running to the shore

Series 03 · Ongoing

Greve, at the
hour of gold

The last twenty minutes of light over Køge Bugt, photographed from the same stretch of beach I grew up on.

About the series

Be standing there

The sun sets behind me at Greve Strand, so what I am photographing is not the sunset. It is the light the sunset throws onto the water in the other direction — a flat, slow gold that lasts a few minutes and then goes cold.

There is no technique in it worth explaining. I check the forecast, I cycle down, and I stand on the same stretch of sand my parents took me to. Most evenings the sea is grey and I go home. Perhaps one in six gives something.

The frames are wide because the subject is horizontal: a flat line with weather on top of it.

Place
Greve Strand, Køge Bugt
Frames
6 shown, ongoing
Method
Natural light, tripod, long exposure
Print
Archival pigment on cotton rag
Size
90 × 60 cm, panoramic on request
Edition
10 + 2 AP
Status
Available as prints

In the catalogue

3 works from this series

Each has its own page, with the note behind it and the print details.

That is most of what I know about making pictures: be standing there. From Words