Maciej_Koniuszy
Sunrise
Sunrise over the Torpedo Station
Gdynia, Poland
Fuji GFX 100s II, GF 20–35
04:22 a.m.
Trying to break free from the spell of minimalist aesthetics that I fell under years ago, I find myself—almost against my own instincts—showing this image. There’s simply far too much “happening” here for my mannered habits of framing. And yet, in the end, that very excess is what convinced me to keep this shot.
A silent sunrise—without the cries of gulls, the howling wind, the loud waves, or the hum of civilization—paired with a scene that seems to shout at me. A jagged, uneven shoreline covered with algae and scattered white shells leads the eye deep into the frame, toward the torpedo station silhouetted against a sky brightening with the first light of nautical dawn, tearing the sky away from the night’s darkness.
Lines of clouds point eastward, guiding the gaze toward Venus, reigning in the center of the sky, now drifting away after its conjunction with Jupiter. Further to the right, a stellar monster—Betelgeuse—appears, with Orion’s Belt closing the composition in the upper right corner: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka rising above a thunderstorm cell flashing with lightning more than 200 kilometers away, above distant Königsberg.
Sunrise
Sunrise over the Torpedo Station
Gdynia, Poland
Fuji GFX 100s II, GF 20–35
04:22 a.m.
Trying to break free from the spell of minimalist aesthetics that I fell under years ago, I find myself—almost against my own instincts—showing this image. There’s simply far too much “happening” here for my mannered habits of framing. And yet, in the end, that very excess is what convinced me to keep this shot.
A silent sunrise—without the cries of gulls, the howling wind, the loud waves, or the hum of civilization—paired with a scene that seems to shout at me. A jagged, uneven shoreline covered with algae and scattered white shells leads the eye deep into the frame, toward the torpedo station silhouetted against a sky brightening with the first light of nautical dawn, tearing the sky away from the night’s darkness.
Lines of clouds point eastward, guiding the gaze toward Venus, reigning in the center of the sky, now drifting away after its conjunction with Jupiter. Further to the right, a stellar monster—Betelgeuse—appears, with Orion’s Belt closing the composition in the upper right corner: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka rising above a thunderstorm cell flashing with lightning more than 200 kilometers away, above distant Königsberg.