Taken on the ferry to the NDSM (where I now have a studio) with a North Sea storm giving a brief lull before sunset. The smokestack and silhouette of the industrial landscape set the mood, the sun is rendered as if going down - or exploding in a nuclear fireball - for the last time, and the impenetrability of the water completes this alien landscape. It connoted the scene from HG Wells "The Time Machine" when - after venturing an unfathomable distance (30 million years) into the future - the time traveler arrives on the edge of a boiling ocean of the dying planet. All that's missing is the hiss of the water and the tentacles of a beast breaking the surface of the water, right?
Using Myshkin - a Sony DSC-T100 which now suffers from seizures and dropout - I jacked the light level way down to get the unnaturally dark feel since what I wanted was the solidity of the water, the silhouette, the plume and not much other detail.
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