![Ah. Nordic autumn light. #copenhagen #streetphotography #cyclechic](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5547/10352908084_4a96c4dd78_m.jpg)
![Looooong cyclist shadow in the Nordic light #shadow #copenhagen](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5535/10352950906_6816dba8b0_m.jpg)
It's that season again. We're transitioning into winter. It's hard to describe Nordic light. It changes radically throughout the year and has a thousand variations. All beautiful. In autumn - and spring - there are many signals that we're changing seasons. One of them is the growing length of the shadows as the sun hangs lower in the sky.
Shadows become impossibly long.
![Cyclist Shadows](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/131/369037970_dbc5cae16e_z.jpg)
So long that it sometimes feels like they wrap around the whole world and you have to chase yourself down the cycle tracks.
![Bike Lane Rally](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/182/366849725_091aed419e_z.jpg)
The morning light is crisper and sharper than ever. Your shadow follows you along as you squint into the sunrise.
![Longshadow Chasing](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/175/369037667_8779f6457f_z.jpg)
Shadows of this length make you contemplate yourself and your size on the urban landscape.
![Bikeshadows, Bikeshadows](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/100/291652529_dc831d82e2_n.jpg)
![Bicycle Freedom](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6711118633_dddc3a915b_n.jpg)
You're often much larger than life.
![Lovely Lady Longshadow](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2118/1871431364_e96d7a991f_z.jpg)
The quality of the light offers up shadows that are sharply defined around the edges.
![Dual Shadowism](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2247/1870615695_3cad9a5b6d_z.jpg)
![Larger Than Life](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2113/2246287554_91a4f53093_z.jpg)
You often can't help but notice yourself on the urban landscape.
![Nordic Evenings](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2176/2517152570_369b805bf7_z.jpg)
Sometimes your shadow chases you, sometimes you follow your shadow through the city.
![Overtaking](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2174/2446530738_fdc4a7e716_z.jpg?zz=1)
The length of time it takes to overtake another bicycle user increases drastically when your shadows are this long.
![Ride - HiCon Experiments](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/213/464990775_600ba31294_z.jpg)
![Wartime](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3106/2283876005_9fa783f741_z.jpg)
Nordic light and it's accompanying shadows are timeless. Here a famous photograph from Tage Christiansen during the 1940s.
2 comments:
Very beautiful this selection of photos! Congratulations!
Some thing that I don't take note of. Mmmmm...my eyes will be checking out on shadows when I go riding.
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