Around Øster Løkke it becomes clear that everything is constantly changing. In many places the change is quite obvious. The sky that is constantly changing color, clouds that are rushing by. The sea that is in constant motion. Insects, sometimes a caterpillar, fly around so beautifully for a while before they are eaten or die of themselves. The flowers that are so beautiful for a short while before they wither. The church that was once in the middle of the parish, but which is now dangerously close to the steep slope to which the sea and the wind have eaten their way just as quietly, but emphatically, into the land from the west. Transience on the playground of infinity. Maybe that is what I have tried to capture in my pictures.

All photos: Ulrich Hald

Ulrich Hald
is a biologist and currently heads the high school department at Siegfried-Lenz-Schule in Flensburg. He lives with his family in Åbenrå and loves taking his camera on nature walks. Ulrich is a participant in Kontemplation's retreats. He wrote this post after last summer's retreat at Øster Løkke, where he lived in a tent during the retreat.