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Iceland: Day 4
Well. What can I say. More wind. More rain. Wow. It’s so windy out there that the swans are flying sideways. No kidding. We spent the morning driving out into the valley past Seljalandsfoss. With...
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Iceland: Day 5
What a day. I hardly know where to begin! We damaged more gear today than we’ve ever damaged in a single day. Not much of an accomplishment! We returned to Jökulsárlón for sunrise. Jay was shooting on...
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Iceland: Day 6
My knee is looking much worse today, as the bruises develop. Yikes! Still – I’m standing… so no complaints from me. As long as I can get around, I’m good. We shot the mossy rocks this morning – and it...
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Iceland: Day 7
It snowed overnight – just a light dusting, but the distant mountains are breathtaking! The clean white snow stands out in brilliant relief against the black mountains! We returned to yesterday’s...
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Iceland: Day 8
Tired or not – I snapped awake at 3am. Time to check for the Aurora. I could see from the window that the sky was clear in the North! Stars! So, I got myself dressed, grabbed my gear, and headed to the...
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Review: 90mm F2.8 TS-E lens
For our recent trip to Iceland, we rented a couple of lenses once again – from LensRentals.com. Their service was excellent, as always. We placed the order a couple of weeks before we left, and the...
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Review: Canon 24mm TS-E F3.5L II
Last week, we reviewed Canon’s 90mm TS-E lens – one of two lenses we rented from LensRentals.com for our recent trip to Iceland. We’ve been considering purchasing a tilt-shift lens, and wanted to try...
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Ten Seconds To Takedown
Some of you have asked to see the photo of the wave that took me out on our Iceland trip, so I went ahead an processed it for you. It’s not one of my favorites from the trip… but half a minute later I...
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Featured Download: Iceland Blues
Click to Download Jökulsárlón in Iceland is a breathtaking place. On one side of the road is a beautiful blue, glacial lagoon. On the other side is a black sand beach where giant icebergs lie scattered...
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Featured Download: Iceberg
Click to Download Jökulsárlón was, without question, my favorite of the places we visited on our first trip to Iceland. I wanted an incredible simple composition for this image – so I chose a single...
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Featured Download: Rainbows in the Mist
Click to Download This beautiful place is a tourist hot-spot in Iceland. A steep trail provides access to the mighty Skógafoss waterfall. The view gets better and better as you get closer to the...
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Rainbow in the Mist
I took this shot of Skógafoss with a 70-200mm lens, a circular polarizer, and a neutral density filter. I needed a longish shutter speed to blue the surface of the water in bright conditions, so that...
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Singin’ the Blues
Iceland was incredibly beautiful… and one of my very favorite locations was this gorgeous beach at Jökulsárlón. I think you can see why. I would have liked to spend far more time shooting these small...
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Beautiful Iceland
The sky was beautiful – but not over the waterfall I had planned to shoot. What to do? Well, that’s an easy one. MOVE! Go shoot where the light is right! :) There you go. That’s my piece of advice for...
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Shooting in the Mist
There are still places in Iceland where only the sheep wander… and even they only visit on a good day. My favorite thing about traveling with Varina, is that she is always ready to go explore these...
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Majestic Iceland
It rained while we were in Iceland the first time – and then it rained some more. It was windy and foggy pretty much all of the seven days we spent there last fall. The top of the Glacier was covered...
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Using a Tilt Shift Lens
Did you know you can use a Tilt Shift Lens to get everything in perfect focus… even with a wide aperture setting? That’s what Jay did for this shot he took in Iceland. We don’t recommend purchasing a...
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Hraunfossar, Iceland
Map: Hraunfossar, Iceland Hraunfossar is located on the West side of Iceland, and can be easily access by a paved road from Reykholt. It is worth a drive if you are in the area. There is a boardwalk...
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Tilt Shift Lens: Overcoming Windy Conditions
Take a look at the image above. The flowers in the foreground were inches way from my camera…and yet they are sharply in focus. This in itself in not much of an accomplishment until you realize that...
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Jökulsárlón, Iceland
Map: Jökulsárlón, Iceland Jökulsárlón is one of the most well-known and accessible locations in Southern Iceland. You can drive right up to this beautiful glacial lagoon. Trails along the edge of the...
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Candy Land – Jökulsárlón, Iceland
We spent 3 night at Jökulsárlón photographing the calm waters of the glacier lagoon. We got a fantastic light show on this windless night. The colors at sunset and sunrise were never very intense on...
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Why do you keep going back?
Do you think it’s all be done before? Here’s why I don’t believe that. This is a shot from Jökulsárlón in Iceland. I took the shot in the middle of the night, in the short space between a midnight...
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Miles of Lupine
We arrived in Iceland in mid-summer, when the Lupine were in full bloom. This is one of the locations we’d hoped to find while scouting the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. It’s a stunning view from this little...
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In the Shadows
We came upon these beautiful, hidden falls in South Iceland and stopped by to have a look. The sun was just coming out from behind the mountains, and it cast a soft, perfect light on the lupines. This...
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The Jewel
On our first night at Jökulsárlón earlier this year, we found this blue iceberg sitting all by itself on the black sand beach. As the light faded “The Jewel” began to glow against the dark waters of...
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