Swallows 4

The last of the swallows pics i'm going to show for now is this flyby.

Swallows 3

It doesn't take long for the parents to stuff some food down the throat of the chicks so it took some patience to get this one.

Swallows 2

Out in the garden the day after yesterday's photo, the chicks were getting flying lessons while still being fed by their parents. This chick just screamed for a mouthful as the swallow dived in.

Swallows 1

While visiting family in Bogense on Fünen I noticed the swallows in the gateway just outside the kitchen. Having hatched five chicks, but loosing one the parents were busy feeding them. They were more or less oblivious to me standing there trying to get a few pics of them, so I managed this one that I quite like. The next day was a big day in these chicks life, and I captured that too as I'll show you tomorrow.

Sunrise 6 - and last

The last of the photos from Klintebjerg, that I'm going to show you here is this one. With the low tide I could get some rocks and seaweed in the foreground and the sunrise just behind the boat in the background. Tomorrow I'll show you that you don't have to travel to exotic lands to get interesting pics of birds.

Sunrise 5

Dialling the exposure down you can get the sun nice and round, while still catching a few details. Klintebjerg offered a few boats as foreground attraction.

Sunrise 4

The swallows were up so I catched one of them sunbathing on a wire with the sun in the back.

Sunrise 3

We have breakthrough. The sun is now over the horizon (and the trees) and a new day has come to Klintebjerg. But why stop to photograph now? With the sun this low you can get some interesting backlit pics. See how tomorrow.

Sunrise 2

On this sunrise photo from Klintebjerg I've boosted the colours a bit to get an almost orange glare in the sky.

Sunrise 1

A couple of days ago I showed you a time lapse of a sunrise over Klintebjerg on Fünen. For the next few days I'll show you some of the photos I took on that very early morning. This one is from the blue hour just before dawn. I like the calm on the photos with the tethered boats as focus points.

A sunrise time lapse

 

During a family visit on Fünen, the island in the middle of Denmark, we ventured out before dawn to the little harbour of Klintebjerg to catch the sunrise. The GoPro Hero3 cam naturally went op alongside the Nikons and the Canons and this is the result of that little experiment. A truly glorious sunrise.

Almost sundown

 

A favourite motive of mine is silhouettes like this with the sun on its way down and a striking silhouette of a tree, a building or another easily recognizable item in the foreground. This one is from Bogense Cemetery taken with my iPhone and edited in Camera+.

Beautiful Bogense

June was a good time to visit family in Bogense on the island of Fünen. Here long walks can take you to beautiful views like this with the coast and the little island of Æbelø (Apple Island) in the background.

Ice-cream

The perfect end of a day at Egeskov would for many be a nice big ice-cream. And just outside the gates is the last call for one of those. And you'll even be able to send that postcard to the rest of the family telling about your trip here.

Visit on a nice day

On a beautiful summer day Egeskov Castle is the perfect place to visit for the whole family, as there's something for everyone. And between the visits to the museums, tree tops or the castle itself, the sun can be enjoyed in the vast park.

Vertigo

Egeskov Castle has done a lot to attract families with children, and one of the more popular attractions here for the kids is the tree top walking. Gangways have been suspended between the trees in 10-15m height, making it possibly to walk just under the canopies of the trees. It's also a great test for you to see if you suffer from vertigo...

Horse-drawn

At Egeskov Castle is also a Museum of Horse-drawn Vehicles, and some of these old wagons are used for "public" transport around the grounds of the castle.

An open junkyard

On top of the museums for motorcycles and veteran cars is the open depository, where a large number of old cars, bikes and spare-parts are kept. And this is open to the public. Only one big question remains; how do they get the cars down from here?

This is not a stork

In Denmark the stork has been all but extinct for many years with only the occasional pair breeding here. But the image of the stork's nests on the roof of the farm, is still firmly rooted in the Danes traditional views of how a real farmhouse should look. At Egeskov Castle they obviously want to keep with the tradition, so without a real live stork, this one of plastic nests on one of the buildings.

Details

When photographing cars I often opt for the details, and as veteran cars especially got a lot of those, the Veteran Car Museum at Egeskov Castle gave me plenty of motives.