Boat wreck

Karin and I visited Sundvik about a half year ago, it was in December. It’s rather unique in Sweden, with its coast line of steep sand banks, and a beach full of weathered and washed bricks. Might it have been a brick maker in the area, gone since long, from which all the remaining bricks were dumped along the shore in an effort to stop the erosion? Who knows, it’s a beautiful sight, though.

This time, we went there in company with a bunch of other people from her work. It was sort of a photowalk combined with dinner at a castle that is located nearby. But no, it didn’t look as in the fairytales, rather as one of those mansions I’ve seen on movies from the Beverly hills. Later I learnt that it was built in the beginning of the last century, which explains it all. I didn’t honoured it a single photo, was that very impolite?

The walk went throug an area with lots of postcard views, of which I photographed quite a few. Pretty photos that are now uploaded to flickr, for everybody’s pleasure, or not.

I walked also into this scene:

A stranded boat, it has been battered by the sea until nothing else but the hull remains. Beside it, a beach ball.

The events that caused the boat and the ball to end up at this place are of course not the same. The wind will have moved the ball to another beach tomorrow, perhaps to the share joy for a new kid. The boat looked like it has been stranded there for a while. Quite probably a storm tore it loose from its anchoring. I happened to coincide when their paths met. As this scene was presented to me, my imagination went away in another direction than the logical. I tried to capture that in the composition and the later b+w processing.