Rainbows and northern lights
The darkness has arrived here in Iceland, but the winter has not. The conditions for northern lights have been good and the calm weather has been refreshing. I guess some of my friends in south-Iceland don´t agree since it has been heavy raining there...
Dynjandi – the impossible waterfall
Dynjandi is one of the biggest waterfalls in Iceland. It is located in the Westfjords. Getting a proper frame of the waterfall is not as easy as it looks. Actually impossible. Impossible without lot´s of fuss and somehow the full frame images of the...
Northern lights photography basics
When it comes to the Northern lights us Icelanders are rather relaxed. I realize that many tourists and photographers travel to Iceland hoping to see the northern lights but since we have them more or less for 8 months a year I don´t run...
Family of minks hunting
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It´s after midnight. The sky is pink in Arnarstapi in the Snæfellsnes peninsula and we are taking landscape photos with our wide angle lenses of the magnificent Gatklettur cliff formation which is full of nesting birds, mostly Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis). The birds were...
Floating-hide photography
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Using our floating hide is a step forward in our bird photography. Of course the easy version of low-angle photography is simply laying down as close to the water as possible, but birds recognize the human form and stay further away. In the floating...
Grimsey photography
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Video number 5 in our "Behind the lens" series is taken in Grimsey which is an island in north Iceland at 66 degrees north. It takes about 3 hours to go there with a ferry and only 65 people live there. Gyda (gyda.is) grew...
Bird action photography in east-Iceland
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Our fourth video in the Behind the lens series.
Birds, caribou and landscape are our main goal in photography in this video taken 4th - 8th of june. Going from Melrakkasletta in the north to Djupivogur in the east. We found caribou, Eurasian Teal (Anas...
Hidden photo-gems in north-Iceland
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In this video we are photographing gannets and landscape at Raudinupur in Melrakkasletta in north-Iceland. Going from Núpskatla, the farm to the Raudinupur cape takes around 40 minutes of walking. This time we brought the drone. I had been watching another photographer two days...
Gannets in the midnight sun at Raudinupur
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We have gone from Myvatn and headed to Melrakkaslétta in our bird-photography tour. Myvatn is one of the most busy tourist locations in Iceland, but Melrakkaslétta definitely is not. For the past 24 hours we have seen only one car while driving Kopasker -...