Spring by the Baltic Sea

A quiet spring sunset reflected in the wet sand at Łeba.

One frame can hold an entire evening. At Łeba, the sun dropped beneath a bank of spring cloud while a ship waited near the horizon. Waves kept redrawing the foreground and the wet sand briefly carried the same orange and rose colours as the sky. The photograph is an early marker in this archive: a familiar Baltic shore made new by a few minutes of light.

• landscape
• coast
• spring
• sunset