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ƒ/10 | 1/320 | ISO 400

Helix

Taken in October last year, this photo is from a building in Reykjavik called Perlan. The building is made of five water tanks that have been linked by glass walls and have a restaurant and café at the top. It's a fun and gimmicky place to go, a bit like a less cool Griffith Observatory. This is one of my favorite compositions of random items to make something that looks like something else. It always reminds me of DNA.

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ƒ/10 | 1/1000 | ISO 400

The Pool

I took four shots of this stranger all from different angles trying to see what would be the most dynamic. The one you see here is taken without me looking through the viewfinder, hanging the camera from my neck strap. The hardest problem with this technique is making sure that the angle is straight. In this photograph you can notice that it is slightly askew from right to left. This is easy enough to fix in post, but little imperfections like that are also what make photos more dynamic in my opinion.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO 400

Sunsetting on Summer

Sunset photos are basically cheating. I get it. We get fantastic sunsets here in Iceland and often I am not in the right spot to take a good shot of them. This time I was. Just take in the splendor, ok?

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ƒ/4.5 | 1/800 | ISO 400

Prikið

Sometimes the absence of a subject is the subject. If you know this spot, and most of my friends do, it has a lot of meaning to all of us in our lives. The rare moment when there is no one inside is as much a tribute to this place as I can imagine. The details on the table, knowing it is moved from that spot every night to make room for the dance floor and worn over corners of the wood furnishings -- the place wears its history with pride. 

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/400 | ISO 100

High as a Kite

This is another one of my attempts at a minimal photograph. I was out with Margrét enjoying the rare blue skies and flying our kite. Inspired by the fact that there wasn't a cloud in the sky and how the string was waning as it rose up to hold the kite on earth, I held the string to the lens so that it would lead directly from the edge of the photograph up to the kite. The way it sags was just a lucky factor in how the kite was flying above. I am a big fan of the way the blue is darker in the top right corner than it is in the bottom left corner, creating a cobalt gradient.