Bunker blues with Lilith Etch
Added 2024-08-06 14:00:05 +0000 UTCLilith Etch (a good friend) was in Denmark in June and asked if I wanted to go to Løkken to shoot in some bunkers.
I had never shot at these, so I was obviously game.
It’s about a five-hour drive away, and we arrived facing frigid water—almost a storm striking the coast head-on—but with enough time for some location scouting.
We had to discard many of the locations—including the images in this series — because we couldn’t get to them.
This is from the recon with high winds and sea-mist. The weather worsened later on.
But we returned the next afternoon when the weather was a little kinder.
As a result of shooting mid-afternoon, we had at any given time five to fifteen spectators a stone's throw away, on the beach, interested in what we were doing.
ƒ5 1/200-1/400 sec
Lilith has adopted an interesting philosophy regarding onlookers after many years as a nude model:
The ones who are first at a location have the “right of way.”
You don’t show up in the middle of a lot of people and strip nude unless you first get permission from them.
But if you are there first, the newcomers can leave if they have a problem.
Secondly, if others take snapshots, so be it.
It’s perhaps a bad form to do so without asking permission first, which, on the flip side, can be intrusive.
Imagine if you travel and come upon a colorful wedding parade in, say, India that you want to memorize; you’ll take some pictures and likely will not ask the newlywed folks first as they are in a public setting.
It seems OK.
The only difference is the nudity, but it is by choice and in a public setting, so it’s to be expected.
Many models would strongly disagree with Lilith on this, but everyone is entitled to an opinion.
