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Saturdays
Saw this moment and felt the shapes of the space lined up nicely to capture the two sisters enjoying a day with family.
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f? | 1/200 | ISO400
New [old] Lens
Recently picked up a converter for my old Canon FD 50mm 1.4 SSC. So far, the most difficult thing about it getting back into MF mode in my head and also my need to get some contacts again as the glasses interfere too much with my focusing. But it is really fun to play with a lens that I once carried every day for 2 years.
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Family time!
f/5.6 | 1/80 | ISO200
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Winter Moon
Taken on 27.12.23 at 12:04, this photograph illustrates well how crazy the light is here in Iceland in December. The moon was neither rising nor setting, instead hovering on the horizon and you could track the movement of earth over time as the moon travelled parallel with the mountains in the distance and slowly growing in size as it approached the mountain closer to my position on the coast. Perspective changing all the while, a perfect allegory of life.
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White Christmas
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The following photographs were taken over a series of walks around the grounds of a fishing lodge in Iceland. The lodge is situated in the countryside to the north of Reykjavík, about three hours drive away. Taken about a month after the winter solstice with a full moon, the light is all twisted around from what would be a normal winter landscape in any other location not so near the arctic circle.
Study 1.0
Is it boring to see the same photograph (more or less) over and over again? I once read about a school in Germany where the students are required to photograph the same subject for an entire year. Whether this method is similar to Bernard and Hilla Becher’s studies, or if it came from The German School of Photographers, I’m not sure, but this always fascinated me as a concept. I felt that the purpose of this was to slow your work down and make sure that you are considering all versions of the same subject before deciding what to present to the world. But what happens when all versions of the subject become as interesting as the a single version? Is there a holy concept that forces the artist to present one single photograph? What if the light is as much the subject as the landscape?
Terminator
A terminator or twilight zone is a moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body. The terminator is defined as the locus of points on a planet or moon where the line through the center of its parent star is tangent. An observer on the terminator of such an orbiting body with an atmosphere would experience twilight due to light scattering by particles in the gaseous layer.
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RVK
Snapped this on a regional flight from Reykjavík to Seyðisfjörður. The city is quite something to view from above.
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ƒ/6.3 | 1/250 | ISO400
Kerið
We’ve been having a lot of earthquakes again, so in turn, I have been thinking about landscape more. This is from a spot on southern part of Iceland, pretty close to the largest cluster of summer homes in the country. It’s a volcanic crater that is around 3000 years old. The photograph I took is directly inspired by an old photo of one of my wife’s relatives at the same place many years ago.
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ƒ/8 | 1/160 | ISO100
Kara
When the winter sun is blazing, it is a special thing here in Iceland. This photo was taken in March, so it’s not exactly the super low, all-day, sunrise/sunset sun, but more like a low summer sun. It makes for some great portrait light, as you can see here.
This post of Kara also comes on our 9th wedding anniversary. There could be no better partner on this planet than Kara. She shares the world that we inhabit better than anyone I could dream of. I love you Kara!
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ƒ/9.0 | 1/1000 | ISO100
A wonderful moment from this past summer in Seyðisfjörður with my wife and daughter.
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ƒ/16.0 | 1/125 | ISO100
If you pay attention to my work, if you’re at all someone who follows me closely, you’ll notice the addition of some flares to the light sources in the photographs that I have been taking lately. That’s because I am using a new lens filter that I recently purchased. Back when I was shooting on my original SLR camera, I had bought the same type of filter and had always wanted to incorporate it again into my digital work.
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ƒ/8.0 | 1/160 | ISO100
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
- Jack Kerouac
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ƒ/16.0 | 1/60 | ISO100
I am as fascinated by the machines I was fascinated with as a child equally at 36 as I was at 3. At least I can find a way to share them with the world. It’s the same machines that now appear and create an uneasiness in my stomach; the feeling of ‘what is being built now,’ and when is enough, enough?
“Instead of saying that everyone – i.e. every one – is responsible for climate change, we all have to do our bit, it would be better to say that no-one is, and that’s the very problem. The cause of eco-catastrophe is an impersonal structure which, even though it is capable of producing all manner of effects, is precisely not a subject capable of exercising responsibility. The required subject – a collective subject - does not exist, yet the crisis, like all the other global crises we’re now facing, demands that it be constructed.” - Mark Fisher
Fisher addresses capitalism most in his writing and his understanding of the end of capitalism is better than just about anyone I’ve encountered. The concept that machines can cause uneasiness in me, a fear of what are we doing in this space, and why are we doing it is coming more and more these days. The book “How to Blow up a Pipeline” by Andreas Malm addresses our responsibility for destroying these machines and the mechanisms of production that are accelerating our extinction. More from that later.
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“Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.” ―Ulrike Meinhof
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ƒ/11.0 | 1/100 | ISO100
Vetrarþoka // Winter Fog
On my way home from a short gig, I saw the fog had not lifted in the swamplands near the airport in central Reykjavík so I stopped and took a short walk to find some things to capture in the dreamlike state I was in. Rather proud of the results from the day, they came out looking as well as I had hoped.
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ƒ/4.5 | 1/2500 | ISO100
Here’s a photograph from Flateyri two summers ago. The sun was bright as can be and I wanted to freeze Maggie mid-jump to created the floating look you see. Fast shutter, stopped down to 4.5, and a low ISO to make everything extra crisp.
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ƒ/4.5 | 1/125 | ISO400
Still Life of a Clear Table
I have been spending a lot of time being inspired by painting lately. Still life is one of the only things that can be replicated across many mediums of art without imbibing onto it too much of the medium. Hyper-realism painters can create paintings that look like a photograph and photographers can create some photos that look like paintings. I was attempting to create this photograph in the space just in between realism and a painting. I left the highlights blown out and used deeper shadows to create a more painterly effect.
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ƒ/1.7 | 1/320 | ISO100
Post Night Swim
Moments like these.
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ƒ/2.5 | 1/30 | ISO1600
Snow Set
I’ll probably be away from this space for a bit as I am on the team building and monitoring the sets for the League of Legends eSports World Championships this month. This was our first set, built, shot, and edited in 3 days.