- Lake #5 -, a photo from Oppland, Sud

Photographer's Note

Calm waters, but what waits underneath that silky surface? Being here, despite the cold, I felt several times as I were melting together with the stillness and nature the urge of sliding into the water. We have a fairytale about a creature living inside water called "Noekken". It's a creature that cast a spell in evenings/nights like this and draws them into the water as they sense not what is going on. I guess the creature in the water outside the mines of Moria (The lord of the rings movie - The fellowship of the ring) describes pretty well what it is, except the octopuss-arms and the action! "Our" creature is more of a gigantic "Troll" full of grass and branches with evil eyes that spellbind you.
You could never really tell... Was I actually spellbound for a short while by a fading power in the water?

Anyway it goes straight inside my theme "Trolls"...

You might go here to take a view of the other photos from around this lake an evening not long ago...

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Junk (37) 2004-10-30 12:13

So silent lake, very good work.

khmelins (960) 2004-10-30 12:22

Peacefull, mysterious, plane..
Love it.

Just a small workshop. Hope you like it.

best,
anton

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avigur_11 (22535) 2004-10-30 12:36

Wonderful series, and this one is one of the best, Terje. I like the gradient of darkness from almost total black at the bottom to lighter tones of greys. Wonderful.

danarees (2502) 2004-10-30 13:04

Wonderful image. It has such subtle strengths. Very nicely executed.

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Rinie_Hoff (9340) 2004-10-30 19:23

I think this one's very good, even the large ampty space in the foreground, works here. There's a lot of mystery in this picture, no doubt about it that trolls can be seen here from time to time. I'm a firm believer!

sohrab (7439) 2004-10-31 13:00

this is mystery at its best
i love the atmosohere here terje
i hope you find the trolls one day :)
ive changed the contrast etc a bit , in order to get some more feeling of mystery here, but can't upload it today as im out of workshops. i'd love to post it tomorrow if it's ok with you, though as you alsready know, my works have contrasts of a degree higher than usual :)
take care :)

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limaz (406) 2006-09-06 2:25 [Comment]