Svoboda (Freedom)

My plan was to make a sunrise picture at Bolata Bay, a cute little protected bay a little bit north of Cape Kaliakra. As i was driving there, at 4:30 in the morning, all seemed well, I was able to see the moon and the stars, all looked perfect!

By the time I got there, about half an hour before sunset, a thick mist was roling in from the sea… I was just in time to see it envelop the breakwaters first, and then the rest of the bay.

I climbed the cliffs and walked around for a while, taking pictures hoping for some inspiration, but nothing really worked. After about 45 minutes, after the sun had risen a little, the fog lifted a little and birds started to come out of there hideouts.

At one point there was this one swallow who seemed just a little braver than the rest, and who dared to venture out just a little bit further than the rest, and he made for a very good model. He (or she) was extremely fast, but kept going out further and further, so I had a few opportunities to try and take a picture. This is the one I liked the most.

The title comes from my favorite Bulgarian word, and surprisingly the first real word I ever learned in Bulgarian: свобода. For those of us who cant read cyrilic (like me), it is pronounced svoboda and it means Freedom. I couldn’t think of a more appropriate title!

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