Exploring Abstract Photography in Hljóðaklettar

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A photography tour took a surprising twist when we had a great time exploring abstract art provided by natural forms in Hljodaklettar. Finding abstract art in basalt columns or strange rock formations sometimes offers surprising subjects. We hiked to the Hljóðaklettar area in North-Iceland. The hike is about 40 minutes from our mobile car, but it´s worth it. This was...
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Photographing The Golden Puffin Castle in Grimsey

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This nice evening of landscape photography at Borgin in Grimsey, a.k.a The Golden Puffin Castle, turned into a kind of plug for our favorite chocolate in Iceland. It was not our intention, it just happened. We had been waiting for the right conditions so we could retake photos we shot a few years ago. The photos are today used...
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Photographing Bird Behavior

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In this video we look behind the scenes when we went to Lake Myvatn to photograph horned grebes. Bird photography is sensitive when the photography is near nesting sites. We have been stalking horned grebe´s and photographing them and other birds, also trying to film their behavior. This is a behind-the-scenes video of our few short visits to see...
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A Productive day of Landscape Photography at Rauðanes

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The conditions for landscape photography have never been the same when we have hiked to the Rauðanes peninsula in north Iceland. We had a great day of photography when we went there with our landscape camera gear. We were also prepared to have a kind of a camping meal since we brought our JetBoil and some Real Turmat from...
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Einar and Gyda are landscape and wildlife photographers living in Iceland. They are the authors of three books about Iceland.

 


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Great day of landscape photography at Gatanöf

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Creating a good photo composition in landscape photography is the subject of this video. We had a great time working the scene, trying to...
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2 Days of Bird Photography in Bad Conditions

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Enjoying a touch of bushcraft and tackling windy conditions at the Rauðinúpur Cape We spent two days of bird photography, mostly focusing on gannets and...
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A Relaxing Day of Bird Action Photography

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The conditions promised a productive day of bird photography in Grímsey. The plan was to try to get a shot of Arctic Terns with...
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Grimsey – The Arctic Wildlife Wonder

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Grimsey in north-Iceland is well known to wildlife photographers. We have spent years photographing there and this video is a shameless promotion of our...
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Amazing Sounds Of Lava

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We often get the question: How does lava sound? In the past videos about the volcano eruption we have done our best to record...
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Abstract Lava Photography

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For the first three trips to the erupting volcano, we did not bring a drone. We prioritized our cameras over the drone since that´s...
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Volcano photography in bad weather conditions

This photography trip to the Fagradalshraun volcano eruption in Iceland offered us challenging conditions. The weather changed five times during the day and we...
Einar Gudmann and Gyda Henningsdottir interview in N-Photo
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Interview feature in the N-Photo magazine about our photography

It is an honor to be interviewed by Keith Wilson, a legend, writer and journalist in the field of photography. In the past he...
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Photographing the volcano eruption

We have now made two trips to the volcano eruption. In this video we focus on photographing the volcanic eruption in Iceland during the...
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Crazy Photography at the Iceland Volcano Eruption

We were ready to go photographing when the Geldingadalsgos volcanic eruption started. In this video, we hike to Geldingadalur on the first day of...
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Photographing the Volcanic Eruption in Iceland

We were moments away from diving into a hot-tub with our friends after a nice dinner when Gyða´s mother called. The eruption had started....
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A short video about our new book – Photographing Iceland: A...

Are you planning a photography trip to Iceland? Our new book: Photographing Iceland: A Photo Guide to 100 locations is intended to be the...
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Surprising subjects and our Super Productive day of Photography – A...

In this video we go to Lake Myvatn in North-Iceland for some landscape- and wildlife photography. Our photography gear freezes over when we stop...
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Our Biggest Photo Project

In this video we print huge images. Probably some of the biggest photos ever printed in Iceland. One of them 113 m2 and one...
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Surviving Photography in Iceland

Our Interesting Photography Projects in 2020 YouTube possibly saved our sanity and the few photography projects we got in 2020 possibly saved our photography as...
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The Crazy Colors of Winter Photography in North-Iceland

This video was shot 8th of December 2020. There was no way to know what to expect when Einar went out with Nikon D850...
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The Perfect Shot

For the past two weeks we have been busy setting up a online store at www.ggart.is and preparing few works for a exhibition in...
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10 Creative Photography mindsets

In creative photography and actually all genres of photography the mindset is what either makes or brakes photography as a business. In this video...
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