IN PROGRESS

Apart from desperately needing to see the sea (this time the Baltic Sea – not a real sea if you ask me, but it will do for now :-)) – the reason why right now is this Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst,

Day one arrival on schedule, finally getting some value out of my Deutschlandticket :-). All of Zingst full of all things photography.

Going for a walk after dinner, I noticed scores of swallows doing their superfast, erratic aerial acrobatics, so that is something I will be practising – finally getting a decent photo of one.

Zingst is a very pleasant town, touristy obviously, but people behaving normally, no hordes of druken, loudmouthed Scandinavians or British tourists. A good variety of restaurants, some of them very good indeed, but only Italian and German. Unfortunately just one Asian restaurant – Chinese – which was OK but not great.

26 and 27 May I attended this Masterclass Abstraktes und Kontraste, masterfully led by Kai Hornung and Nicolas Alexander Otto

Photos from day one (26 May afternoon and evening):

Photos from day two (27 May 03.30 to 06.00 and 14.00 to 18.00. I have to say, Kai and Alex have a real talent for organising sunrises. No mean feat in a week of mostly clouds at that time of day,

Day 3 – 28 May – weather forecast said thunder and lightning so I visited most of the exhibitions before attending Kai Hornung’s inspirational pep-talk in the late afternoon. Also spent some time on the beach before and after the talk.

On my last day I had no firm plans, except parts of the festival programme, which I ditched since the weather was nice and I started by walking south to the inland harbour and hop on a short boat tour overlooking the large island which is a bird sanctuary to Barth and back.