Waves

We are all walkers on the road of life, where we bring with us more and more hand luggage. I have grown up so close to the ocean that I have been able to hear in my house, the waves hit the swallows on stormy days. It has given me an attraction to the ocean in a way that I often going back when I need rest, when thoughts and events are to be processed and decisions to be made. As an emotional person, I have also experienced strong spiritual events and had the pleasure of having strong faith in the biblical message. I have a career as Child and Youth Secretary in Agder Circle of the Norwegian Lutheran Mission, after I was delighted saved at the Nedenes Bedehus in September 1982. This connection to the mission and prayer house movement has given me a attraction to the old prayer songs and hymns. They have become a ballast and luggage for life. They have given me strength, inspiration and joy. Unfortunately, the voice has become rusty and its hard to remember melodies, so singing to myself is not that easy anymore, but the lyrics are burned in memory and when they pop up, I feel the mood and the joy as I knew when I was singing at the prayer house. Particularly in songs about heaven and the Christian hope, the heaven.



The wave

The picture "The wave" is taken on Spornes at Tromøya in Arendal in spring 2011. It is a picture that I am very fond of, because it is a picture that has a lot of energy. You see the sea is being sucked outwards and lifted up and breaking over to wave. You see the power of the ocean that meets the swab and swallows out with full force.

When I look at the picture, I know that one of my great heavenly songs appears in my memory, "They come from East and West" Songbook Sing to the Lord, No. 853. In order not to conflicts with copyrights, I just take the refrain here:

"They come from a stormy sea, They come from a thorny way, They come from the mountains, They come from the valley, They come, O God, to you And clothed in wedding screams and meet their bridegroom, The one who caught on the cross's three won them victory wages ".





EXIF: May 24, 2011, Time 15:44:54, Shutter 1/800 sec, ApertureF / 5.0, Focal Length 300mm, ISO 100,
Camera Canon EOS 7D, Lens Canon EF300mm f / 2.8L IS


Sex at the beach

Being a photographer is often called capturing the moments. And, maybe it's so amazing to be out in nature to take landscapes, pictures of sea and beach. What you're kidding is there every now and then. It never comes back, no one else can create the same, it's unique. Then it's a bit of eyes that look, what one really sees.
This picture is taken at Reve on Jæren. I had spent a while attempting to get pictures of the waves that hit the pier here without success. We had a nice time bikkja and I and we even had a visit of a mare who wondered what we were doing.
But, it was the waves and the natural ones that were supposed to stand for the show!



 EXIF: 9th July 2015, Time 15:23:25, Shutter 1/8 Sec, Aperture f / 22, Focal Length 24mm,
ISO125, Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Lens Canon EF24-70mm f / 2.8L

       
Feistein Lighthouse

After a small summer storm, it was reported to be stay, but still a little windy. I decided to take a holiday from work and go to Jæren and see if I could get some nice pictures of the waves on the beautiful beaches, here at the south west of Norway. Now, it did not get the way I was thinking when the wind direction was on the east and then there will be a freeze wind on Jæren. However, this had been stormy so there was still some waves. Here Feistein lighthouse seen from Selestranda.

This and other of my pictures can also be seen here at my other website; Landscapesofearth.com

Feistein Lighthouse is an herritace place, which you can read more about at; Kulturminnesok.no


Feistein Lighthouse, Waves, seaside, lighthouses, Reve

EXIF: Date 9th July 2015, Time 16:42:23, Closing 1/8000, Aperture f / 2.8, Focal Length 300mm, ISO 100,
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF300mm f2.8L lens


Ruager

This picture was taken at that time of the year where most of people lock themself inside, in front of the fireplace and just rest. Myself included, it makes it easy for the wind to crash, the scale drops to less than ten degrees. Yes, you can easily find the place in the chair in front of the TV or the fireplace. But, it's just during extreme weather, or at least weird, that the beautiful motivs lie there to be caught for a few hundred seconds to create lasting memories.

And yes, I remember this morning. The slightly dim light, a little windy, but quite cold. I dressed up my dog and myself in winter clothes, brought the camera and tripod and walked out to Ruager at Fevik. The first thing we met here was a deer. Fortunately, I saw her before the dog and got him in a rope. But then we sat outside, well dressed to feel the natural forces. Know the wind blow and watch the waves play against the swamps.

There is not much to say; peace of mind, peace of mind!



EXIF: March 10, 2013, Time 8:26:44, Shutter 0.6 sec, Aperture F / 6.3, Focal Length 35mm, ISO 100,
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Lens Canon EF24-70mm f / 2.8L

King Neptune

Out here one can find peace of mind and thought. Here one can sit to dream and gain strength in a busy day. Here a creative soul finds peace and inspiration, here comes a close to the natural forces and all that exists between heaven and earth. Then one can play with the idea that nature has some characters and spirits that turn out to be for you. In this way, King Neptune is such a representative. Are you looking forward to seeing a wave with a head and arms that stretches toward me.

This picture I have called "King Neptun" since if you look close, there is a wave of noise that rises over the cliffs on Ruager, like a head and two arms. In Roman mythology, Neptune was the sea god. In later coastal and sculpture, Neptune is made as a masculine man, with solid chest and manly beard, holding a spear with three tags. The planet Neptune is named after this god.




EXIF: March 10, 2013, Time 09:06, Shutter Speed 1/80 sec, Aperture F/5,6, Focal 43mm, ISO 250,
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Lens EF24-70mm f/2,8L


Kalvehageneset

I remember this day very well. It was one day I was a little restless and knew the need to get out in the nice winter weather. And, as usual on such days, I draw to the swallows, at the seaside. I went out to Kalvehageneset and found a lunatic dump in the rocky mountains where I could sit shut while I was knocking to see if I could catch some fun waveformations.

This image is just any wave, such a wave that hits the swallows tens of thousands of times a day, worldwide, every day every hour, every minute. Still, this one is very special. First and foremost, because it is captured on an image. But, it is also unique. No other waves blow up the mountain side in the same way, and give the same promise as this one. It is special.

To consider such everyday events, philosophize over these, see the unique, especially, at the same time consider the energy and the strength of the wave. It leads my mind to who I am. One of many billions on the globe. I came, I was and one day I will go away. Like the waves that hit the swallows. So, of course, I can only philosophize if it's the same with me like the wave, everyday, like a breath of a breath. A human life in the broad context, perhaps, is just like this wave, which is fought against the swab and slipped out and falls back to the sea. Or maybe not.

A wise man I once was allowed to visit, theologian, former headmaster of the missionary school Fjellhaug and author Øivind Andersen, told me that in life is the only thing you own; is the moment. What's been gone is gone, you do not know what's coming. It's only the moment you own and who you know and that you can do something about.

The wave you see in this picture is only for a fraction of a second, for a moment. It gives me the meaning of life in a nutshell. It is in the moment, at the moment the life is. It's now I have to live, radiate my energy, use the power I'm given, because with once I'm gone back to the earth I came from.



EXIF: February 24, 2013, Time 16:54:23, Shutter 1/1000 sec, Aperture F / 4.0, Focal Length 420mm, ISO 200,
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Objective EF300mm f / 2.8L IS