I have visited this unique church in Iceland many times. On my recent trip I visited it again and decided to shoot it with the iPhone and Hipstamaticapp. Iceland has some beautiful churches. Most are small and quaint but a few are really cool the way they are designed. This is one of them.
I was in Copenhagen about a month ago to see a new camera launch. While there I played tourist and walked the city. I visited many of my favorite locations. The Round Tower is one of those places. This tower was apparently built by some king hundreds of years ago so he could drive his carriage up the tower and look out on the city. I guess he was too lazy to climb stairs. The wide roadway in the tower as well as the light spilling in the windows makes this a great place to find an interesting image. This was an iPhone shot.
Sometimes magic happens and it often does when in Iceland. I sometimes think Iceland was created just for photographers as it is one of the most incredible landscapes in the world and I have seen a lot of them. It was around 10:30 at night and the sun was low on the horizon. We were shooting this really nice lake with dark stones and solid white patches of snow. We then looked far off and saw this rainbow forming. It got larger and larger and brighter too. I put on my long lens with a polarizer and started shooting. Finally I backed off on the zoom a bit and got this image that I really like.
Once again while exploring Iceland you can find amazing things. This is a whale skeleton that was washed up on the beach last winter. Since then the only thing that remains are the bones. This Skelton lies on the edge of the beach with the magnificent mountains in the background. This image was made with the Phase One XF Camera and the IQ250 digital back. I shot 5 images in vertical orientation and then stitched the images together in Photoshop. I intend to make a 44 x 72 inch print of this image in the next week. The detail in it is amazing.
Iceland from the air is an amazing sight. On the helicopter excursions I shot 983 images in less than an hour. This shot was made of one of the river deltas. I love the abstracts you can see from the air.
On our recent Iceland trip we were on our way to the Highlands and like it happens often in Iceland the weather was changing rapidly. Weather in Iceland can change in minutes and it is not uncommon that in one day you cane experience everything Iceland has to offer. So, while we were driving we watched the sky change in front of us. Weather systems were colliding and as a result the clouds just became incredible looking and it was sight you don’t see often. This i,age is a stitched image made handheld in a very quick set up.
Cemetery of Punta Arenas, Chile is one of most interesting cemeteries in the world. We spent a few hours here in February shooting images and it is a photographers paradise. It has a beautiful yet quiet and soulful feel. The places has so many different things to see and all the graves are decorated in such unique ways. I’ll be posting more from this amazing place in the future.
One of my favorite flowers and a flower I run into in almost every corner of the world is a Lupin. While in Punta Arenas, Chile prior to this years Antarctica trip we came upon a large field of Lupins. So, we had a fun time shooting and I decided that I needed to do a some post processing technique on the image so it wouldn’t look like just another flower photo.
On our trip last week to Iceland we chartered a helicopter. Iceland from the air is a whole other world. We were able to open the door and the pilot did a great job getting us to the good locations. I think he has done this before. One of the things that becomes obvious quickly is the abstract of the landscape. This is a shot done of a river delta and the muddy waters. without a reference you wouldn’t know what you were looking at. Made with the Nikon D800E with a 24-70mm lens at 1600th of a sec.
I must apologize. No excuses, but I was super busy for the last few months on Luminous-LAndscape business. I literally was running out of hours in a day. So, I am now back and will do my best to get back to the routine of an image a day. Please accept my apologies for the long absence.
I’ll kick off the new images with a shot from last week when I was in Iceland leading workshop. It was a great workshop with some great people. The light lasted 24 hours a day and it was non-stop photography. One morning we woke up and it was grey and cloudy but none the less we headed to the Iceberg Lagoon to shoot sunrise. As it is with Iceland weather the whole grey sky changed in the 10 minute drive there. The clouds started to part and beautiful gold sun started to peak through. This is the shot of an iceberg with the sun common up. Oh my do I love Iceland. Made with a Nikon D800e and a 70-200mm lens.