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13. ethics

On this day the word was “ethical” and after yesterday’s statements I would keep in the political theme, bringing in the nature as well.

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November

In November I was going to Østerbro to a small park centered around a lake. It would not be the easiest place to find “ethics”, so I went for a walk around the lake. It was late morning and not a lot of people were there, mostly maternity parents with their children and a few school kids.

The first possible subject I saw, was a wheelbarrow left in the lake near the shore. My thoughts for the caption would be something about the unethical act of littering, but it would be very unclear, and the photo would be difficult to take, technically, because I would have no good place to the the photo from. So I continued walking…

After doing almost a full lap around the lake, I found my subject. Next to some bench and a small playground, were a couple of high tree trunk, with no branches – and painted blue. They stuck out of the surroundings with their surreal colour. They must have been some kind of art project or statement, but I never found out. I took the following photograph.

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Dead, painted trees in front of fall trees.

December

In December I had to do a little thinking to get an idea of how to recreate the surreal trees in the November photo. The solution that came to me was a tree not very far away in Frederiksberg Have.

I have taken many walks and runs in Frederiksberg Have in the years I have been living in Frederiksberg, and I remembered a very special tree close to one of the bridges. It is a tree filled with pacifiers, in Danish called a “suttetræ” (pacifier tree). The pacifiers come from children who have outgrown them, and the ceremony of giving them to the tree helps the children get rid of them once and for all.

I took the photograph below, which did not turn out all that good; backlit, a little underexposed and with camera shake, so it’s difficult to see the pacifiers, but I promise that they are there.

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Dead, painted trees in front of fall trees.

Comparison

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Dead, painted trees in front of fall trees.

Once again the photos are very different in all but theme. One is fairly colourful while the other is almost black-and-white. The caption doesn’t really fit for the second photo, but I made that way too specific to be able to recreate the photo without going back to the same place.

Be sure to come back tomorrow and see my next photos, and see if my technique improves.