Kolping

A winter and a spring in Wels, seen mostly after dark. I took these photographs with my phone on walks between December and April. The first is from a foggy late afternoon in December, when the street lamps were already lit at a quarter to five.

A bare tree silhouetted against thick fog above still water, street lamps glowing yellow in the mist behind it and reflected in the water

In January there was snow. The moon came through the clouds above a lit footpath, a small sailboat lay beside a snow-covered jetty, and a wooden hut stood under a single lamp at the edge of the forest.

A snowy footpath lined with street lamps at night, bare bushes along it and the moon shining through a sky full of small clouds

A small white sailboat moored beside a snow-covered wooden jetty at night, a lifebuoy floating next to it, a birch and dark pines behind

A weathered wooden hut beside a snowy path at night, lit by a single street lamp, with dark forest behind

On the sixth of January, late in the afternoon, the sky above the rooftops turned red. A few days later, mist rose from the water beneath a footbridge strung with lights.

A band of deep red sunset sky above snow-dusted rooftops, with bare trees in silhouette

A footbridge lined with lights crossing dark water at night, mist rising from the surface and the lights reflected in it

By the middle of April the trees were in blossom. At night, under the street lamps, the flowers stood out against a sky that was almost black, and the lamps along a park path were still lit after one in the morning.

A tree full of blossom lit warm gold against the night, the edge of a lit building at the top left

A cluster of pink double blossoms and young bronze leaves on a single branch, lit against a black sky

A branch of pink double blossom reaching across a black background, lit by a street lamp

A tree densely covered in small pale pink blossoms on thin green twigs, filling the frame against the dark

A park path at night with three glowing lamps and empty wooden benches on a strip of grass, dark trees on either side

Some of the spring photographs were taken in daylight: the river so still at noon that it held the clouds, an early morning sky crossed by vapour trails, and blossom, first against a grey sky and then, at the end of April, against a blue one.

A wide, still river at midday reflecting white clouds and blue sky, green trees on both banks and a bridge in the distance

An early morning sky with grey clouds edged in pink and orange, vapour trails crossing it and the dark outline of a tree in the lower right corner

Branches heavy with pink double blossom against a grey morning sky

Pink blossom and bronze leaves against a clear blue sky, a single vapour trail crossing it diagonally