moments in time: Polarni ZOO, zadnjih 500km po zasneženih cestah in še enkrat aurora

Images!

"Now let's make some images," Gremlin says. The phrase has been sticking out at me all week - JJ says it, and Casarsa and Gremlin and bitter all say it... "Let's make some images". Watching them all I learn the difference, between taking pictures and making images. Pictures are the haphazard, streaky affairs, pale and red and shaky, that live in the little screens on the backs of cameras, good for a laugh and a pass around the table, then ready to vanish into memory and distance. Images are something else entirely. Images are on purpose. They do not look like whatever arbitrary rectangle of space they shared the light with. They start in the photogrpahers mind and get projected, out and back, with lights and battery packs and foundation make-up and low-lying clouds and glass. Images are on purpose and you need to work hard to make them. "When I make your image," double_p tells me, "I say, I see you, I remember."
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sobota, januar 03, 2009

Polarni ZOO, zadnjih 500km po zasneženih cestah in še enkrat aurora

Zapiranje vrat, zadnji pogled na zimski vrt,

in odrinili smo daleč dol, na domači svetli in topli jug ;-)

V čudovitem polarnem dnevu smo (pri -17°C) še enkrat vozili skozi zasnežene gozdove in fjorde.

Neverjetno, a naleteli smo na norveške može postave, ki so nas preventivno povabili na alkotest. Bil je negativen..seveda, saj je bil že 3.januar.

Naš vmesni cilj pa je bil polarni živalski vrt. Tja smo prišli kako uro za planom, kar je pomenilo precej manj svetlobe, in ob zasoljeni vstopnini skoraj podvomili v smiselnost podviga. No ja, če zdaj na toplem gledam nazaj, se ura drgetanja na mrazu vseeno izplačala.

Videli smo polarno lisico, risa, pa srne in jelene, celo Rudolfa, losa ;-) Zelo dobrodušna, simpatična in prav velika žival.

Prav na vrhu se je v daljavi pokazal celo volk

V mraku je mraz še bolj najedal kosti in komaj smo čakali, da se avto spet malo pogreje. Svetlobe je konec, nas pa čaka je še kakih 300km do spanja. Narvik, trajekt, tuneli, sneženje... in končno Fauske, micena hiška s kuhinjo in spalnico. A ne le to... še veliko več. Za njo se je v daljavi spet pokazala svetloba...