For the past three winter seasons I’ve had the good fortune of being able to take my photography tour groups into ice caves. I’ve been going into caves with a qualified mountain guide and ice cave expert. At the beginning of winter he searches for and discovers a number of caves in different locations on […]
I’ve recently returned from leading the first workshop of the summer. It was a dedicated bird photography workshop with six fellow nature photographers. We started in Reykjavik on May 26th and drove straight to Lake Mývatn, which took us about seven hours. The conditions at Mývatn were very different from how it’s been in past […]
“How is Iceland in winter”, is a question I frequently get from workshop participants during the summer. It’s a fascinating season and now that winter is approaching I’m looking forward to the snow and frost and hoping that we’ll get a “real” winter with lots of it. I’ve never before had such interest in winter […]
Last summer was more or less dedicated to landscape photography but I did get a few chances to photograph birds. The two types of photography that I mostly do – birds and landscapes – are very different but equally rewarding. I find that landscape photography slows me down to the point that it sometimes becomes […]
Life is full of good intentions. When I redesigned my website last year I added a blog. But I’m not a blogger. And what happens when a non-blogger starts a blog? It quickly fades into the background and dies. Now, that I’ve just returned from running the last photo tour of the season, I long […]
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 […]