One very touristy place in Iceland is the Geyser. I ma not much for these kind of places, but none the less myself and friends visited this location. It erupts every few minutes and everyone enjoys it. This is the bubble a fraction of a second before it turns into a Geyser. Thought it was different and thus it has made the blog today.
One in a while you just land the good one. This is sunset from atop the pass coming into Death VAlley from Beatty. It was just one of those nights.
I just love this place. Outside San Miguel there is a hotel that is 60% finished and then one day while building it they figured out it was not a good idea to build a hotel under a dam that may break someday and flood the place out. No matter what you think of all the planning that went into this before discovering such a thing, it did leave a cool place to take pictures. I like this shot because it has symmetry. I am kind of big on that as one of my styles in photography. This was shot with a Phase One IQ180 that has super ability to see drk and highlight detail. Notice how you can see detail in ceilings of the hotel rooms. This camera in addition to this dynamic range is also 80 megapixels so the detail is just amazing.
I have been up since 2:30 AM in Iceland, because there is always light and we were going to shoot some early morning light photos. Who were we fooling? We drive all over this Peninsula, it is pouring down rain and the winds are blowing 50 plus MPH. Quite a day. Now I am like a junkie I need my fix, I need to shoot something. We stop at a small hotel with a cafe and the owner brews us some of the finest coffee there is. Sitting at the table overlooking the ocean with giant waves and things that fly by the window once in a while I get more depressed as it looks like I might not shoot anything all day. Then I see a flower on my table. I say oh yeah…and I get my iPhone out. switch it on to Hipstamatic, switch to a BW setting I like and shoot 6 pictures of this flower. Ahhhh, I feel better now and I actually had a photo I liked. So, there is always a way to get a fix, you just sometimes need to see what is front of you.
Well get used to it, you re going to see a lot of waterfalls and ice pictures in the coming weeks. I worked on this image and feel it really popped in black and white. This is one of many waterfalls shot in Iceland. I opted in this case not to slow the water down too much as I wanted to illustrate the force of the water coming off the falls and through gorge.
The waterfalls in Icealnd are spectacular. This waterfall Seliansfoss is one almost every visitor sees when in Iceland so the trick is making it look different. This waterfall ou can actually walk behind it. You’ll get wet but you will get a shot and if the sun is going down it even gets better.
The beauty and curse of Icealnd this time of year is there is no darkness. You go from sunset to sunrise in a matter of 2 hours with just this strange twilight in between. This image ws shot at the Glacial Lagoon more on the sunset side of things.
I am now back from a super trip to Iceland and will try to catch up with the blog posts here. I have so many images to share not too mention fun stories. Iceland is such a beautiful place. No matter where you look there is something gorgeous. This shot was made with fellow photographers Drew, Peter, Steve and we were traveling a rough road out to the snow fields. Yes it is summer here but plenty cool and snow there. I love it. This is a hiking hut and outhouse. Kind of looked cool in BW and with the outhouse as a g=foreground.
Every time I come to Iceland I stop at this location and shoot these falls. You may notice they are the header sot for my blog. I have a new set of falls to replace the header soon. This shot was taken the other day and was made from 3 stitched images from an IQ180 and 28mm lens. This has been an amazing trip to Iceland this time. After two weeks I head home tomorrow.
So strange to read weather reports back home about how hot it is. As I lead a workshop group through the many beautiful locations in Iceland I find I am always dressing in layers. Sometimes the wind bellows and it feels like winter. Other times it is in the 30’s. No matter what though we have a had a week of amazing color, weather and a chance to shoot with 14 great people with a true passion for photography. You can follow the adventure at www.podas.info.. The image above was done at The Glacial Lagoon as the moon set. It never gets dark, just kind of this blueish grey light. Hard to sleep when it is never dark and we find ourselves out at 2-5 AM in the morning. Lots of fun, great image that you will soon see more of.