Haseldorfer Binnenelbe

The "Haseldorfer Binnenelbe" is an area near the village Haseldorf, west from Hamburg, where old river arms are now behind the dikes and no longer depend on the tides coming in from the north sea. It is a protected nature reserve now and home to many endangered species, especially birds. In this study I tried to capture the flatness and monotony of the landscape, where the dikes are the highest elevation of the landscape around. The images were taken with a Leica M6 and a 35 mm asph. and a 90 mm Summicron on high resolution film.