Day six and I was getting used to the process even though the void of having no concrete plans – like going to a workplace each morning – was beginning to nag a little bit. The one concrete plan of the day – taking a single photo – definitely helped get through the days.
Today’s word was “general” leading the thoughts to military ranks, which would not be the easiest subject to photograph.
- What: general
- Where: (55.67776,12.49374)
- When: 06-11-2019 and 06-12-2019
November
In November I was led to a location in Frederiksberg for the first time, specifically to a parking lot close to the newly reopened KB Hallen. While walking to the parking lot I thought about the possible “general”‘s to be in the photo. I quickly ruled out the military rank, as I found it highly unlikely to find a uniformed soldier in a parking lot, much less one with the rank of a general.
So I began to bend the word and came up with the car company “General Motors”; the company behind the brands Chevrolet, Cadillac and others. This seemed like an obvious subject in a parking lot, and I arrived a the location full of hope.
Sadly, the brands of General Motors are not very common in Denmark. I walk through the parking lot with around a hundred cars, looking at each cars logo, but without any luck. After having walked around for several minutes I realised that what I was doing looked really suspicious.
I panicked a little bit and wanted to take the photo quickly before someone would accuse me of having bad intentions, so I looked around me and found my solution in the building facade behind the parking lot. I took the following photo a caption.
December
In December I went out to find the most generic building facade I could think of. I went to Sankt Jørgens Sø on the border to the inner Copenhagen and found my photo. Unfortunately I left home a little late and the soft winter light was quickly disappearing. My camera made up for it with longer exposure time, but this made the picture blurry / shaky because I couldn’t hold the camera steady for the entire second or so, the exposure took.
Comparison
The subjects of the two photographs a very similar with balconies spread across the buildings; even the number of floors are the same as far as I can count. The angle is off on the second photograph as well as the light, but still the similarity is good.
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