Einar Gudmann

Einar Gudmann is a photographer, editor, and author living in Akureyri, north-Iceland. He strives to capture the beauty of nature and wildlife hoping to contribute to the effort of understanding and saving it.
237 Posts

The bird whisperers in the backyard

For the past few years a Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) and a Eurosian Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) have been regular visitors in our backyard. Those...

Going wild in Iceland with the N-Photo magazine

    The latest issue of the N-photo magazine features a 12 page article called "Go wild in Iceland". This is the second apprentice article where...

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...

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...

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...

Family of minks hunting

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...

Floating-hide photography

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...

Grimsey photography

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....

Bird action photography in east-Iceland

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 -...

Hidden photo-gems in north-Iceland

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...

Gannets in the midnight sun at Raudinupur

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,...

Behind the lens 1

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"...

Latest articles