This week, Patti is going wide – and so are we! ”What’s a wide angle lens? It’s any lens that is below 35 mm on a crop-sensor camera or 50 mm on a full frame. The wide-angle view is perfect for capturing a broad vista like a landscape, seascape, or cityscape.”
In the opener, I had to use a wide angle in order to show as much as possible of the paper cutting – but I still did not manage to get the whole width, 5 meters, in the same picture.
My first example is of an old ”light house” in Skagen, on the east coast of Denmark. Ca 1625 ”vippfyren” was invented by the Dane Jens Pedersen Grove of Elsinor. Vippfyr could be translated as ”tilt light house”, and worked via a lever lifting a metal basket with an open fire. The first of these innovations were set in Skagen, Anholt and Kolabacken, Falsterbo, Sweden.
I used a wide angle here to show the sense of a golden ”sea” in front, and the light house facing the open, blue sea.
Another wide angle – this time the necessity was…to catch the two giant platforms in the same picture.
For this week’s LAPC #165, we invite you to go wide and we’re looking forward to seeing your wide-angle views of people, places, and objects taken with your camera or smartphone.
Last week, Sofia’s Up/Down challenge gave us a multitude of beautiful images captured while looking up and down. A special thanks to Sofia for her creative and inspiring theme and for hosting the challenge!
Next week, I, Leya, will be your host for the challenge. Until then, please stay calm, kind and well.
Leya 
Hi Leya
The masthead photo of the 15 meter wide paper cutting is astounding. And I am amazed by the 17th Century tilt lighthouse in Skagen, Denmark. What an ingenious invention and your wide-angle photo captures the scale of the vista so well. Lastly, the 300 year old moving dune in Denmark is unlike amy other I’ve seen. Thank you for taking me to so many fascinating places through your photos.
Here’s my offering for this week – a happy series of a swimming deer
Best, Babsje
Happy you liked my post, Babsje!
😊 it’s lovely Leya! You make me want to visit Denmark.
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Nice wide angle images. I especially like the ”light house” and the black and white images.
Thank you, john – then there are two of us!
As most of the other commenters have said I too love the dunes! Nicely captured and brilliantly presented in monochrome.
Thank you so much for a beautiful comment, Jude! I am still looking for gold…
I love that black and white, there’s something emotional about it.
Glad you like it too – I think it feels alive…maybe because I saw the sand flying and know how the dune is moving.
The wild grasses in your first photo show movement. Great capture 😊
The giant metal platforms seem to be immersed in the clouds. Perfect 👌
Black and white photos are my new challenge for myself. Viewing your
B & W is inspiring. 😀
Isadora
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Isadora! Glad to have inspired B&W.
Beautiful examples of shooting wide angle. I especially like the coast scene in black and white.
Thank you, Anne, and yes, the visit to the sand dune was spectacular.
Love that black and white image!
It seems many of the readers do! I am glad!
Yes, there’s so much depth in the white-and-black photo. There’s depth, of course, in your other beautiful photos, but it seems more striking in black and white.
As you say, some photos do best in B&W!
Beautiful photos!
Thank you, Aletta!
Love that last shot, absolutely divine
Thank you very much – my favourite here.
Beautiful photos as always but that last one takes it to a different level. It is poetry.
Thank you, Sofia – lovely to hear!
Oh I love that last one so much…very dramatic effect!
Thank you very much!
Such drama, for various different reasons,in these wonderful shots.
Thank you, Margaret. Then I am happy!
Fantastic images …. Especially the paper cutting one
Thank you – she is very skilled!
Fantastic photos but the most interesting was of the migrating coastal dune in Denmark . Here I thought of sand dunes and only a desert would come to mind. I learnt something really cool today . Fabulous Ann- Christine!
So glad to spread new information! Thank you!
Your dune photo reminds me of a sand dune I visited long ago. The sand was so fine. Great wide angle photos here, Ann-Christine.
Thank you, Miriam! Yes, truly fine sand, blowing into my camera too…
Was it hard to walk on it, Ann-Christine?
Yes, and sand blowing around you, in your eyes, mouth, clothes – and camera…
I can imagine, Ann-Christine, with fine sand like that.
🙂
I love the photo of the dune!!
I believe many of you do!
Love these images Ann- Christine and seeing the Lighthouse in the distance. Is beautiful.
So happy to share – and glad you liked them. That light house is really special.
The dunes at Råbjerg Mile are my favourite.
♥ Very special.
Great photos. The dunes and sea of grass are my faves.
Thanks John!
I liked the last picture of the dune, Ann-Christine! It looks great in black and white. Nice textures in the sky and the land.
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Well that’s a new one on me Ann-Christine – a moving dune! Who knew?! Loved your giant platforms this week. Amazing to get those in one image.
Happy to share pictures and facts! And those oil platforms just stood there right up in my face…never thought I would be able to cram them into the same picture.
Wonderful. Especially the B&W of the dunes
Glad you like them!
As much as I love the other shots, the fact that the top shot is a paper cutting just blows me away. It’s awesome in the true sense of the word, although I can’t imagine the time and precision it took to do even a small part of it.
Thank you, Janet – she is very skilled! I don’t want to think about how long time it must have taken…
Fabulous image of the dunes, Ann-Christine! Well- yes! Kind- mostly! Calm- whenever I can! Sending hugs!
Hugs to you as well!
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