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Stopping the sand for 1000 years
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Sola beach again.
I simply love to take walk at this beach, and almost every time I get a nice sunset.
Taking thoughts away from the sunsets themselves, I decided to simply turn around to have a picture of the sanddunes at this beach.
These sandunes have always been here, as long as anyone in Sola can remember or historically know of.
In my opinion this photo gives more meaning to the notes of my other photos from Sola and its historical sites.
Time for a little history:
The Marehalm (Leymus areanarius) has stood here for ages, I'm not sure for how long, but according to Norwegian history it was brought to Norway from Denmark in an unknown century.
During world war two the occupying German forces had special uses for Sola airport situated just behind these sanddunes. As a result of this all the surrounding areas had to be secured, especially this beach and the other total of some 40-50km of similar beaches to the south of Sola.
The Germans then erected lots of manned defencive positions along the coast and around the airport.
The problem with the beaches was the fact that they were easy to assault amfibiously.
This made the German occupying forces put down massive mine fields both on land and at sea.
When the second world war eventually ended these minefields were cleared, but not completely.
Luckily for us living here thay have never really been a problem, but when this beach was struck by a powerful storm in the mid nineties, there appeared lots of mines on this very beach. They were simply hidden under the Marehalm
To our own luck they have now been removed, but we never know.
Please feel free to give me any advice you feel I might need.
Odd Jarle |
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- mammad
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(3127) - [2006-05-03 18:42]
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Dear Odd,
I really admire your POV. I love these simple frames with no extra detail.The cropping and composition are smart and pefrect,Though it seems to lack a little vivid coloring I like the mood set by the neutral colors u have chosen.TFS.
Heisann OJ.
Nice photo, there are meny posibilities you can choose from in this photo. You did a very nice job with the composition and nice light. But just to let you know that in this place you could shoot a photo of the reeds or the patterns in the sand. In this case I think your choise was a good one, so you definetly get 2 points from me. Just wanted to tell you that you can allways look at the details, and try to see if they make a good photo on theyr own.
- Halgeir
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- Buin
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(22379) - [2006-05-19 2:41]
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Hallo Odd Jarle!
A beautiful picture of the dunes. I always love the combination of brown and blue.You can see how the grass is combed by the wind. Thank you for your infomative note. Wasn't it an insnity what happened there in World war II!?
I often thought to this when going with hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes and back. Everywhere we were reminded to this.
Greetings from Germany!
Frank
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