Eines aus meiner digitalen Anfangszeit.

[TONI_B]

Ein wunderbares Bild!

Aber den Titel verstehe ich nicht...

Danke.

- Kurze Erklärung zum Bildtitel

Die Reflektion des Kondensstreifens im nassen Sand steht symbolisch für den anthropogenic footprint, den anthropogenen Beitrag zum Klimawandel.

- Etwas weiterführend

Die Gegend im Hintergrund, NW-Ireland, County Donegal, wurde nachweislich bereits 8000 B.C.E. während des Mesolithikums besiedelt. Also im Erdzeitalterabschnitt zwischen Paläolithikum und Neolithikum am Ende der letzten Eiszeit.

Klimatisch beendete das Mesolithikum das sogenannte Pleistozän welches ca 2.5 Millionen Jahre andauerte. Es began die Periode des Holozän, diese dauert bis heute an.

Das Mesolithikum brachte eine Periode der Erderwärmung mit sich, es begann das Zeitalter der Wälder, und damit schließt sich der Gedankenkreis zunächst.

Man kann da noch viel mehr zu sagen, aber ich denke das erklärt den Kern.

- Persönliche Geschichte zum Bild

The below picture has a few stories that belong to it. Little should I know about it’s importance to me when I took the shot on a crispy clear November evening back in 2005 on my beach.

I saw the reflection of the airplane in the wet sand and pulled the trigger. To me this scene was the epitome of “Global Warming”, and this is how I called it.

Years later, and encouraged by Prof. Harald “Color Harry” Mante and other people it won a photo competition, and as a result I was invited to Castle Dyck in Germany to meet Stuart Franklin from Magnum and some other people from the industry. In a way this was the start of me pursuing photography on more than a hobby level only, and it turned into my full-time work.

That in itself made the picture important to me as you might imagine, but there is more…

A few years later in 2008 I bought an Epson 11880 and this shot was one of the first larger prints I made on this amazing printer after it was setup. I called my good friend Roger Burns over to show him this spaceship, the print was on the table beside some others. When Roger came in, he went straight to this print and was very taken by it, he asked me whether he could have that for an event next month. Roger being my friend, I said “Sure, what’s that event about?” and made another print for himself.

He explained that he plans to go to Africa / Malawi and build a crash for kids together with a couple of craftsmen next year, and money being tight, they would have an evening in a pub and try to fundraise money for vaccination shots, tools and all kind of things needed to realise such undertaking. They would have a raffle and people could win prizes, so he wanted this for the first prize. While matting and framing it I explained the title and we chatted about his trip.

The evening was a great success and they went on to Malawi building that crash for kiddos. I forgot about that picture over time.

In October 2010 Roger called very excited and told me that he bought a boat, so we went for a trip to nearby Islands together. It was there that he asked me to come along for the next trip to Malawi as their photographer, documenting the development and shooting in Malawi. I was in Africa before, and I liked that idea of a trip with him and agreed wholeheartedly, but this should never take place.

A few months later I got the message that Roger had died unexpectedly within a few days of illness. Roger was in his early 50s. Couple of days later I got a letter with a card, the official news that Roger had passed. The card showed exactly this picture, with his face blended into the sky above the airplane.

His sister did that, and when I called her, she told me how much he loved this picture, and that this was the reason she had it scanned and used for his card.

Roger is forever connected with this picture, and it will remain one of the most important pictures that I took.…

[Vera aus K.]

Ein wunderschönes Bild!

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Und eine sehr berührende Geschichte! Danke, dass du beides mit uns teilst.

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Ob wir es uns bewusst machen oder nicht - es kommt die Zeit, in der man gemeinsame Reisen nur noch im Land der Erinnerung erleben kann.

Viele Grüße,

Vera

My pleasure!

[Dana]

Wunderbares Bild.

Absolute Ruhe, absoluter Frieden, eine tolle Aufteilung, wunderschöne Farben, tolle Spiegelung. Man schaut drauf und seufzt einmal wohlig durch.

Danach dann die Geschichte, die einen stark berührt.

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