Greetings from Trelleborg

So, here I am, since one week ago I am on board the ship once again, traveling between Trelleborg and exotic Rostock. I thought I should share some photos I have taken onboard while I am in an area with internet-access. As usual, I forgot about the very existence of my camera the moment I signed on the ship (it seems to happen quite often when I am out on a contract), however, I found my camera and the motivation for photographing a couple of days ago, therefore I was out in the cold evening sun and took some photos over Trelleborg port. Some day I will go ashore in Rostock and Warnemünde too, since it is a little bit more exotic there.

Well, here they are, the photos of what I see every day (with the exception of the weather, it is very seldom the sun shines over Trelleborg and Rostock, but sometimes it does. When that happens, I bring out the camera).

The funnel and the ventilation shafts of the ship in the sunset

The view on the port side while we are discharging and loading in Trelleborg

M/S Nils Dacke and M/S Gryf in the port of Trelleborg, the view from starboard side

When talking about how exotic Rostock is, it is always good to have some perspective. Compared to Trelleborg the city seems more interesting, maybe because of the fact that it isn't a swedish town, therefore it is exotic. However, compared to the views and the smells in the morning in the middle of the Argentinian jungle at Rio Parana Guazú, Rostock doesn't stand a chance as an exotic destination. It was amazing. Therefore, I complete today's post with a photo of the morning sun over the Argentinian jungle, taken onboard Stena Primorsk in october 2010. I promise I will stay tuned.

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Contrast

For me, my photo archive is sacred. It contains so many memories of the past, that I would be devastated if I lost them. But, I am quite lazy when it comes to backups and making paper copies of my photos. I should learn of the history, a few years ago, when I kept all my photos in the folder "My pictures" and Windows crashed, it took me almost one week to restore my archive. Which, by that moment, only contained about 3 000 pictures. Nowadays the number of photos in my archive comes to almost 60 000 pieces, of which I have a backup for about 50 000 of them.

So, why am I telling this to you? Well, it is because of two complete different reasons. Firstly, one of my new year resolutions will be to take more paper copies and backups of my photos. That isn't so hard to accomplish, I just need to write it down so I will remember it. Secondly, this explanation will be a little bit more diffuse, if I ever lose my pictures, many memories which never ended up in front of the camera also will be lost. You see, when I look at my pictures, I can imagine the past event, all the circumstances around the photo, how it smelled, who was there and parts of what was said. In other words, I can recreate many memories and situations with my photos. I am a person who tend to focus more on the small details rather than the big picture, but with all my memories of the details I can re-experience past memories once again. It is never advisable to live in the past, but by forgetting about your history you never will learn anything or be able to see things in retrospective. If something, or somebody, is forgotten, then they cease to exist.

A couple of days ago I took my camera for a walk in the cold weather. The camera showed a weird behavior during these winter walks, I had a hard time to get the auto focus to work, but I believe that the intense cold temperatures was the reason for this malfunction. I took some photos of the setting sun over Göteborg and Älvsborgsbron. The midwinter solstice was yesterday, so now the days will become longer and brighter, even if it is hard to believe at the moment. Outside my window it is minus seven degrees Celsius and even if the lights from the city does it best to brighten up the sky, it is very dark out there.

Bright and cold

A contrast to this midwinter sun over a frosted sea is the sunsets in the Argentinian jungle. The picture below show the sunset at Rio Parana Guazú in October. It was very beautiful, I just wish I had taken more photos on board.

Rio Parana Guazú