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.
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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"...

Getting really close to the birds

This week we have been photographing birds in northeast Iceland. Mostly in and near the Myvatn area. The summer is not here yet even...

Beginning of the bird photography season in Iceland

There are exciting times ahead. May and June are probably the best months for bird photography and birding in Iceland. This is the time...

Working the scene at Hvitserkur

Last weekend me and Gyda drove 200 km to Hvitserkur in northwest Iceland in our mobile car. The idea was to stay there for...

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