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I think my passion for photography mainly stems from realizing that photography is what I love to do and ultimately what I want to keep doing for the rest of my life. And hopefully, someday, I’ll be able to make photography my full-time job.
I’d say the last year – however bizarre and let’s be honest, terrible it has been – has had the most significant impact on my photography and me as a photographer. I have learned and grown a lot this past year – at least if I do say so myself. Not being able to travel, has “forced” me to explore my home country of Denmark. I have visited places and taken photos here in Denmark I probably otherwise wouldn’t have if international travel had not been banned. The pandemic has also made me look through old photos, edit them and later on sharing them again – which has been quite fun and very educational.
The winning photo represents these two developments: shooting in Denmark and editing old photos.
In May last year – in the midst of the first lockdown, my friend and I wanted to photograph a family of foxes we had heard frequented an area in northern Denmark. My friend picked me up at 2 am so we could get there before sunrise at 5 am. When we got there, no foxes came out of the den. We were still waiting near the den at 1 pm and the foxes were still nowhere to be seen. I’m not very patient, so the wait was painfully long, fortunately for my impatient self, 10 fox cubs came out of the den around 2 pm. A bit later their mother, a beautiful vixen returned from hunting, which meant it was time for the cubs to be fed. This was the very moment I captured my winning shot. Now, almost a year later I still can’t believe how fortunate I was to not only experience – but also capture that moment.
This photo had been sitting on my computer for almost a year, because I didn’t know how to edit it. I find it quite hard to pinpoint precisely what made it so difficult, but I took the photo around 2pm in bright sunlight, which is generally just terrible conditions to shoot in. And whatever adjustments I made in Lightroom, I just wasn’t happy with. So instead, I just moved on to a different photo. However, I kept coming back to it and it might have taken me 11 months to edit it to my liking.
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