Leaving Helsingborg Photo

Photographer’s Note

Leaving Helsingborg

Yesterday I made a little trip to Sweden: the train from Copenhagen to Helsingør and then by ferry to the Swedish city of Helsingborg, which takes about 20 minutes. The water you cross then is called Øresund (Sound), a narrow water between Southern Sweden and the Danish island of Sjælland, that connects the Kattegat with the Baltic Sea.

This picture was taken just after the departure from the harbour of Helsingborg, when I was on my way back to Denmark.
Helsingborg is the second biggest city in the Swedish province of Skåne (Scania) with about 120,000 citizens.
Helsingborg was mentioned for the first time in 1085 in a letter from the Danish king Knud 4. den Hellige (Canute IV the Holy), but the probably the city is much older. The city has often been the scene for many battles between Denmark and Sweden. The province Skåne used to be a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but after a lot of wars, the region finally became Swedish in 1658.

On this picture you can see the tower called Kärnan (the Core, the brown tower, left of the middle of the picture). The tower has been a part of the fortresses of the city, but nowadays it's visited by tourists (like me). The tower is 35 meter tall, but it is located on a hill as well.
The red tower left of Kärnan is part of the city hall.

Since I took this from the ferry, I was not very stable when taking. So I had to sharpen the picture a bit. I cropped the picture too and I added a frame. (yellow to create the colours of the Swedish flag in combination with the blue sea and sky.
I hope you like this picture.

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A picture of the other side of the Øresund can be found here: Leaving Helsingør

kent_s, weswang, leonorkuhn, papagolf21, singuanti, Fixfocus, thohau, supereira, jhm, feather, ajcsousa, nst, Emile, ChrisJ, Ged, Gix, jmdaoudal, Steft, riclopes, emjleclercq has marked this note useful

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kent_s (1911) 2005-09-18 13:13

Hej Lars
Så du har varit i mitt vackra land och besökt Helsingborg. Den staden bjuder på massor av fotomöjligheter.
En mycket vacker komposition med parapeten (piren kallas så)som svänger in i bilden
Snyggt skjutet
Hälsningar
Kent

weswang (18223) 2005-09-18 13:21

Hi Lars, A beautiful shot of the colorful city. It looks that it was a fine day when you took this picture. You have done a great job to take this picture. I like the 1/3 dividing, the nice contrast, and fine clarity. A very well taken picture. Well done.

leonorkuhn (13643) 2005-09-18 15:22

Hi Lars,
You took this photo in a very nice day. Great lightness, excellent colours. Good POV - of course! Good job.
Greetings,
Leonor

kLe (2039) 2005-09-18 15:35

I'm glad to dedicate to you my critique no. 500, Lars. Difficult to find a fault in this photo. The only one is that somebody has stolen the spanish flag there (and the dutch one too). The rest is very good. The picture is luminous and sharp. The horizontal composition (sea, dock and buildings, sky) is perfect. Sorry... I do not like graffitis very much. Maybe next time you can wash the dock before shooting ;D

danby1 (3689) 2005-09-18 17:10

hi lars! a very nice colourful shot of this harbour, its very well lit and composed, great colours in the sky and the water! well done very nice!

papagolf21 (56483) 2005-09-18 17:13

Bonsoir Lars,
Le tangage du bac n'a pas trop influencé la prise de vue. Je la trouve bien nette et nous permets de voir un petit coin de la Suède. Merci Lars de nous faire partager vos découvertes et nous informer sur les villes grâce à vos très intéressantes notes.
J'aime beaucoup.
Amitiés.
Philippe

alvaraalto (5231) 2005-09-18 17:42

Hi Lars,
Mooi dit klassieke plaatje van Bornholm.
Het prachtige kleurenpalet tussen de blauwe banen van zee en lucht.... Misschien inspiratie voor een nieuwe "verdwenen anemoontjes"
groet Rob

singuanti (15240) 2005-09-18 20:43

Hey Lars! It's good to be back on TE. You would think that 1/500th of a second would be sufficient when on a ferry. I don't see much movement though and I'm sure the bright lighting helped quite a bit. The water sure looks nice and blue. Nice catch Lars.

Fixfocus (9377) 2005-09-18 23:31

Hoi Lars,
Nice how the deep blue of the sea is contrasting with the light blue of the sky.The colorful flags are a good detail here.
Well composed shot with good use of the space.
Doei,
hermann

thohau (949) 2005-09-19 3:31

Hey Lars!
Congrats for this colorful and sharp picture!
Thanks for your informative note.
Cheers,
Thorsten

supereira (9576) 2005-09-19 5:30

I like the composition and DOF.Great contrast between the buildings and the sky.Great details.I like the colors,light and sharpness.Great sky.Well done!

jhm (82759) 2005-09-19 11:53

Beste Lars,
U laat ons zeer mooie beelden zien Sweden, en zeker de hoek hoe u deze foto heeft gemaakt is belangrijk, alle vlaggen zijn aanwezig ook de Belgische, maar de Nederlandse zie ik niet, dit zijn details. Het is een pracht van een overzicht, zeer mooi gedaan Lars.
Groeten,
John.

feather (49868) 2005-09-19 12:12

Lovely composition of thirds. Good DOF and light management. The only thing that bothers me is your choice of yellow for the frame, but that's just a personal opinion.
Kath

ajcsousa (1804) 2005-09-19 18:27

Hi Lars,
Very nice picture. Good composition. The colors, light and details are great. Well done
Regards, António

Kenny10pin (19301) 2005-09-19 19:08

wow, almost all the flags here, I like the clouds at the back, very neat row of them, I think someof the sky could be cropped, but thats just me

nst (135) 2005-09-19 19:42

This is a picture that gives immediately a positive feeling. Sharp tones and colours, very well illuminated. I like the moving waves in the sea as well as its deep blue colour.
Wouldn't mind having a panoramic view from the rest of the harbour and the city shore, maybe next time you' ll do it for us.
Thanks for the nice picture.

castellano (708) 2005-09-19 20:01

Very nice shades of blue well escorted by the "candy floss clouds". Nice composition and light. It's a pitty I can't see my country's flag ;)
Good job!

Emile (20007) 2005-09-20 0:38

Very good picture Lars.
Hope you will place in TE more pictures from Helsingborg, in my cruise two months ago trough the countries around the Baltic Sea, we were not able to go to Helsingborg as planed in the tour because of bad weather.
Excellent colours and shapness.
Well done.

Ged (391) 2005-09-20 14:28

Nice colourful sharp shot Lars,
Good POV, composition and nice sky too. Good work.

Ged.

Gix (3559) 2005-09-21 2:45

Hi Lars,
you are right, the blue of the water is very nice, and the whole image a nice view of the city. I see many palaces here with tower and belfry.
Thanks for the image and for the note!
ciao, Giorgio

jmdaoudal (82) 2005-09-21 3:25

Beautiful and very intresting pier.
The perspective is well done here and you have very good colors from the flag.
I like it
Jean Michel

ChrisJ (70335) 2005-09-21 3:46

Hi Lars

A superb harbor scene with excellent color & sharpness. I like the repetiion of the colorful flags.

bertolucci (11976) 2005-09-21 15:01

Heerlijke en vrolijke capture Lars, van deze Zweedse haven met zijn wapperende vlaggen en de strook wolken boven de stad. Mooi ook hoe het water is weergegeven. Fijn werk!
Best regards from Rotterdam, Bert.

Stepan (27175) 2005-09-24 3:02

The picture is better after opening...
I like the light and the colors of the flags...
I can almost fell the wind.
Hilsner.
Stéphane

Steft (5962) 2005-09-25 8:19

Ook september in Scandinavie ziet er prachtig uit. Originele foto. Die gekleurde vlaggen geven in combinatie met de gekleurde huizen en het blauw van het water en de lucht een zeer feestelijk en vrolijk karakter.
Mooi werk!
Stef

mumek (17468) 2005-09-28 21:04

Good evening Lars!
Fantastic colorful scenery from Helsingborg.
The note is very interesting and very informative.Thanks for posting
best regards
ziggy

sergecross (3438) 2005-10-02 9:17

Lars, very nice composition. The theme is very nice and the perspective looks good.
Thanks
Sergio

riclopes (33033) 2006-02-26 4:37

Hej lars,
Now, on the Swedish side...
I love this POV to the city, with the beautiful sea and that expressive wall in foreground, so full of details, dominating the composition (it give me some artistic ideas...).
Wonderful lighting and magnific attractive colours. Good choice of the yellow line on the frame.
Hilsner,
Ricardo

jafadabret (39825) 2007-02-28 13:43

Lars, de belles couleurs et du vent pour animer les drapeaux cela fait une belle photo très dynamique.
Jacques

emjleclercq (14352) 2008-02-04 13:44

So this is the harbour of Helsingor. I have passed it to far away in 1991 and the weather was not as good as the one you had here.

All the best,

Emmanuel