Author Archives: Daniel Bergmann

I just returned from a great camping trip with six fellow travelers. We didn’t have luck on our side in terms of weather and there was nowhere to escape as all of Iceland was getting rain and strong winds for days. We started in the Southeast and photographed at the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon and it’s [...]

Summer is passing very quickly here in Iceland as usual. In a couple of days I’m off on a ten-day camping trip with a group of eager photographers. I love camping as it gives freedom to follow the weather, or at least break camp when storms hit and escape to other parts of the country. [...]

I was photographing coastal scenery on the Skagi peninsula in May. Before I started working on the beach I scanned the coastline with my binoculars, just to ensure that there wasn’t something big and yellow walking around. I wasn’t all that concerned about encountering a Polar Bear and a few years ago the thought wouldn’t [...]

Since 2003 I have been photographing the same female Gyrfalcon on her territory in northern Iceland. She started breeding there a year earlier and since Gyrfalcons start breeding between 2-4 years old she is now at least 12 years of age. Every winter, when I return to the north to photograph falcons, I wonder if [...]