At the heart, a glass dome rises, a time-hold of the late 1800s look and boldness, an age’s echo caught in pane and frame, The Palm House in Copenhagen’s botanical garden, as captured on October 20th 2024 through a manual focus-only Zeiss 35mm f/2 lens mounted on a Pentax K10D camera.

It’s a still clash of nature’s quiet wildness and the steady grace of architecture characteristic of the 1870s.

A bit of tended green which lives its own quiet life between the unruly and the orderly
Trees hang around like green watchmen, their leaves freely gripping the shape of iron and glass.

It’s as though the tamed nature of the surrounding park knows its place here, yet plays with soft defiance, spilling and twisting around the work, as if testing the bounds.

Trees lean in from all sides, setting up a world both snug and unbound, a blend between the thick, eager growth of the green and the still shape of the glasshouse.

If this sight were caught on film, one might think it taken with a box-camera, each detail sharp yet soft, a clear bow to depth and span that draws you in to see the changes of the seasons, this photo expressing latest Autumn in Copenhagen, the play of shade, the worth in all things set side-by-side.

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