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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...

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...

https://vimeo.com/175946901 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...

https://vimeo.com/173063700 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...

https://vimeo.com/171764848 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...

https://vimeo.com/170007683 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...

https://vimeo.com/169385526 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...

https://vimeo.com/169017033 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 -...

https://vimeo.com/168611790 Iphone´s make our life so easy. We have been photographing birds near Myvatn for the past two days and shot some "behind the lens" shots with our iPhones. The result is the following video. All the clips are taken on iPhones except the drone...

This week we have been photographing birds in northeast Iceland. Mostly in and near the Myvatn area. The summer is not here yet even though the tourists think so. The tourists are everywhere which is strange for this time of year. It´s obvious that...

There are exciting times ahead. May and June are probably the best months for bird photography and birding in Iceland. This is the time most birds are very active, busy taking care of their chicks. I am looking forward to using more time this...

Last weekend me and Gyda drove 200 km to Hvitserkur in northwest Iceland in our mobile car. The idea was to stay there for two days relaxing and photographing. Going somewhere in the mobile car, stopping, having coffee, looking out of the window in...