heimwaerts.com: March 2013

Friday, March 29, 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Artsy Raindrops On Window

capetown, i know its hard to believe for the people in the cold but here its a creativ looking summer rain

raindrops doing art © henningnockel.com

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

My Sad Looking Shoes

i looked at them sitting in the corner wondering if they are sad!? there was no need to wear them for the last couple of weeks. may they forgive me! ahoi

my lonely shoes © henningnockel.de

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sunday, March 24, 2013

capetown- since i got back from the kalahari it has been windy and kind of wavy every day all day! i made a couple of downwinders and it has gotten very quite down here, almost everybody had left. then 2day it was one of the "bigger" days u can get here. i went out at my favourite wave where i am usally alone, specially this time of the season. i wanted to play a bit with my waterhousing and tried taking pixs of myself kiting. as i got started from the shore i realised my housing is heavy to carry in one hand while kiting and still make pix and stear the kite. i was ignoring the fact and turned outside in one of the sizier waves of the day. when i started riding the wave i struggled turning the kite fast enuff to get into the best position but i was still aiming for the pocket. bam, the wave colappsed a few meters behind me and instead of being able to get infront of the wave i got eaten big time. under water i lost control of where i am and in one hand my kitebar in the other my heavy housing i realised it was getting difficult to climb back to the surface. dont know for how long i was buried under whitewater but it felt like ages, i guess in reality it was just a sec! anyway, i could feel that i am surrounded by my lines underwater so the kite must have dropped. for moments i was thinking to let go of my housing or the bar or actually both! when i finally popped up i took a big breath and looked into the next wave to colappse on me. after all i got back to shore...needed to swim and lost my board. my girlfriend looked more scared then me, but i went back out after i started the kite. 2 hours later there where some guys coming down to the shore with jetskis and all they where going to tow there! a huge film crew popped out of nowhere and started putting up a 35mm movie cam on a high stand. it was too much i then went home to check the pix and must admit...it looks soft and small! it is so difficult to capture the real size if u take shots with a wide angle but i had a good time...ahoi