Douglas L wrote:
Thank you Bill! Iceland is very different from any other places I have been to and I have been to quite a few. While a Denmark, I met the pilot who flew one of the jets in the air to air shoot at his hanger, he lives in Greenland half of the time. He got me interested Greenland where his daughters fly tourists around. Have to keep buying lotto tickets.
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Thank you, Peire! I may have a surprise for you from northern Germany, need to go through more than 10,000 of my fighter jets shots to find it.
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Thanks Ed! It's only a 5.5 hour flight for us in Maryland, not much longer than going to the west coast. Definitely will go back again. I was there 6 or 7 years ago.
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Thank you Birdie! The Seljalandsfoss is probably the most photographed waterfall in Iceland. This particular shot was taken at around 11:30 PM when the sun was setting. I didn't wait for the sunrise (at 3:00 AM.)
Last Friday I arrived back to Iceland from Denmark at around 3:00 PM, I had about 33 hours to kill before I needed to pick up my wife at the airport at 4:30 AM Sunday morning. She didn't go to Denmark with me so she would meet up with me in Iceland.
I drove to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in NW part of the country, stopped by the Black Church, lucked out with some lighting on the mountains, continued on to Arnarstapi for some seascape shooting but I didn't bother to take one single shot when I got there, the light was just horrible. For sunset on Friday night I was at Kirkjufellsfoss but it was too cloudy, not much of a sunset. I then drove to see Hvítserkur (the rock formation that looks like an elephant on the beach) in northern Iceland for sunrise, it was nothing but rain and fog when I got there. I was planning to take a whale/puffin watching cruise on Saturday morning in Husavik, Northern Iceland but it got cancelled due to the wind. A native told me to go to a place called "Borgarfjarðarhöfn" in the easternmost part of Iceland to see the puffin colony, so I went. It was amazing to see thousands of them and some were merely a few feet from the walking path, the light wasn't the best and I didn't have much time to wait for in flight shots. From Borgarfjarðarhöfn I drove back to the capital, via the longer south route this time. I didn't enjoy driving in the snowy weather in parts of the north route that morning. When I drove by Seljalandsfoss the light was very pretty so I decided to stop by there to wait for the sunset again before I drove to Reykjavík. When I checked in the hotel in Reykjavík, it was 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I slept for two hours before I drove to the airport to pick up my wife.
So within 33 hours I drove over 1800 kms around Iceland, stopped at various places, napped in the car when I was too sleepy. I had 4 or 5 Red Bull drinks during that time. A lot of my favorite shots from Iceland were just taken from the roadside when I saw the interesting sight and light and was able to find room to pull over.
Here are some shots from that crazy 33 hours.
I had the 100-400 GM lens with me because I needed that lens for what I did in Denmark, otherwise I would have brought my 70-200 F4 G II with me but Iceland definitely needs more than wide angle lenses, IMHO....Show more →
Another jaw-dropping set of images from Iceland, Doug!
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you Bill! Iceland is very different from any other places I have been to and I have been to quite a few. While a Denmark, I met the pilot who flew one of the jets in the air to air shoot at his hanger, he lives in Greenland half of the time. He got me interested Greenland where his daughters fly tourists around. Have to keep buying lotto tickets.
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Thank you, Peire! I may have a surprise for you from northern Germany, need to go through more than 10,000 of my fighter jets shots to find it.
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Thanks Ed! It's only a 5.5 hour flight for us in Maryland, not much longer than going to the west coast. Definitely will go back again. I was there 6 or 7 years ago.
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Thank you Birdie! The Seljalandsfoss is probably the most photographed waterfall in Iceland. This particular shot was taken at around 11:30 PM when the sun was setting. I didn't wait for the sunrise (at 3:00 AM.)
Last Friday I arrived back to Iceland from Denmark at around 3:00 PM, I had about 33 hours to kill before I needed to pick up my wife at the airport at 4:30 AM Sunday morning. She didn't go to Denmark with me so she would meet up with me in Iceland.
I drove to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in NW part of the country, stopped by the Black Church, lucked out with some lighting on the mountains, continued on to Arnarstapi for some seascape shooting but I didn't bother to take one single shot when I got there, the light was just horrible. For sunset on Friday night I was at Kirkjufellsfoss but it was too cloudy, not much of a sunset. I then drove to see Hvítserkur (the rock formation that looks like an elephant on the beach) in northern Iceland for sunrise, it was nothing but rain and fog when I got there. I was planning to take a whale/puffin watching cruise on Saturday morning in Husavik, Northern Iceland but it got cancelled due to the wind. A native told me to go to a place called "Borgarfjarðarhöfn" in the easternmost part of Iceland to see the puffin colony, so I went. It was amazing to see thousands of them and some were merely a few feet from the walking path, the light wasn't the best and I didn't have much time to wait for in flight shots. From Borgarfjarðarhöfn I drove back to the capital, via the longer south route this time. I didn't enjoy driving in the snowy weather in parts of the north route that morning. When I drove by Seljalandsfoss the light was very pretty so I decided to stop by there to wait for the sunset again before I drove to Reykjavík. When I checked in the hotel in Reykjavík, it was 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I slept for two hours before I drove to the airport to pick up my wife.
So within 33 hours I drove over 1800 kms around Iceland, stopped at various places, napped in the car when I was too sleepy. I had 4 or 5 Red Bull drinks during that time. A lot of my favorite shots from Iceland were just taken from the roadside when I saw the interesting sight and light and was able to find room to pull over.
Here are some shots from that crazy 33 hours.
I had the 100-400 GM lens with me because I needed that lens for what I did in Denmark, otherwise I would have brought my 70-200 F4 G II with me but Iceland definitely needs more than wide angle lenses, IMHO....Show more →
Thank you Douglas, amazing images.
I wanted to include you in my previous post, but the system won't let me quote from a previous page.
I like the soft light, composition, and colors of your Island images that also reveal the great beauty of the landscapes.
Sony ILCE-9M3 + 400mm F2.8 GM OSS @ 400 mm, f/2.8, 1/3200, ISO 8,000.
211 consecutive images in total.
On my imperfect stop watch the first GIF animation takes around 23 seconds to display.
But the Sony A9.3 took the images in about 2 seconds.
In Photoshop I chose "no delay" added after each frame.
So the real time action is an order of magnitude faster than can be displayed here.
Those hummingbirds can move really fast.
211 consecutive images in total.
On my imperfect stop watch the first GIF animation takes around 23 seconds to display.
But the Sony A9.3 took the images in about 2 seconds.
In Photoshop I chose "no delay" added after each frame.
So the real time action is an order of magnitude faster than can be displayed here.
Those hummingbirds can move really fast.
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you Bill! Iceland is very different from any other places I have been to and I have been to quite a few. While a Denmark, I met the pilot who flew one of the jets in the air to air shoot at his hanger, he lives in Greenland half of the time. He got me interested Greenland where his daughters fly tourists around. Have to keep buying lotto tickets.
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Thank you, Peire! I may have a surprise for you from northern Germany, need to go through more than 10,000 of my fighter jets shots to find it.
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Thanks Ed! It's only a 5.5 hour flight for us in Maryland, not much longer than going to the west coast. Definitely will go back again. I was there 6 or 7 years ago.
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Thank you Birdie! The Seljalandsfoss is probably the most photographed waterfall in Iceland. This particular shot was taken at around 11:30 PM when the sun was setting. I didn't wait for the sunrise (at 3:00 AM.)
Last Friday I arrived back to Iceland from Denmark at around 3:00 PM, I had about 33 hours to kill before I needed to pick up my wife at the airport at 4:30 AM Sunday morning. She didn't go to Denmark with me so she would meet up with me in Iceland.
I drove to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in NW part of the country, stopped by the Black Church, lucked out with some lighting on the mountains, continued on to Arnarstapi for some seascape shooting but I didn't bother to take one single shot when I got there, the light was just horrible. For sunset on Friday night I was at Kirkjufellsfoss but it was too cloudy, not much of a sunset. I then drove to see Hvítserkur (the rock formation that looks like an elephant on the beach) in northern Iceland for sunrise, it was nothing but rain and fog when I got there. I was planning to take a whale/puffin watching cruise on Saturday morning in Husavik, Northern Iceland but it got cancelled due to the wind. A native told me to go to a place called "Borgarfjarðarhöfn" in the easternmost part of Iceland to see the puffin colony, so I went. It was amazing to see thousands of them and some were merely a few feet from the walking path, the light wasn't the best and I didn't have much time to wait for in flight shots. From Borgarfjarðarhöfn I drove back to the capital, via the longer south route this time. I didn't enjoy driving in the snowy weather in parts of the north route that morning. When I drove by Seljalandsfoss the light was very pretty so I decided to stop by there to wait for the sunset again before I drove to Reykjavík. When I checked in the hotel in Reykjavík, it was 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I slept for two hours before I drove to the airport to pick up my wife.
So within 33 hours I drove over 1800 kms around Iceland, stopped at various places, napped in the car when I was too sleepy. I had 4 or 5 Red Bull drinks during that time. A lot of my favorite shots from Iceland were just taken from the roadside when I saw the interesting sight and light and was able to find room to pull over.
Here are some shots from that crazy 33 hours.
I had the 100-400 GM lens with me because I needed that lens for what I did in Denmark, otherwise I would have brought my 70-200 F4 G II with me but Iceland definitely needs more than wide angle lenses, IMHO....Show more →
Peire wrote:
Looking at this picture I feel I am in the Victorian England.You created the mood perfectly.Everything is top-notch Barry!
Thank you Piotr for your kind comment, most appreciated my friend...I really wish I could handle colour as well as you do in your outstandingly beautiful flower images...I tip my hat off to you sir
Apologies slightly OT...As some of you know, I have had a long time fascination with old photographic (film) alternative printing processes, such as platinum-palladium, iron prints, silver and gold (chrysotypes).
I used to contact print my 5x4 10x8 and 14x11 B&W negatives back in the 80's and 90's...These chemicals have now become prohibitively expensive and the film is near impossible to track down (panchromatic film - 10x8 and 14x11 film formats), not withstanding the hassle of lugging around a heavy Gandolfi wooden field camera, tripod and DD slides now that I'm old!....This has led me to experimenting to achieve a similar authentic look on my screen.
This shot was 2 Raw images (one exposed and processed specifically for the highlights and the other for the shadows) as the dynamic range of the scene was probably in excess of 15 stops...Both images blended on layers (sometimes I would add a 3rd layer from my library of handmade papers to allow the texture of the paper itself to show through) > Flattened > Burning and dodging > Converted to B&W in Nik Collection - Silver Efex Pro 2 + Toning in Analog Efex Pro 2 > No noise reducion or sharpening< Voilà
Thank you, K-H, Barry, Joshua and Peire! I enjoy all your outstanding work!
This is probably the last installment of my Iceland trip, the last two days of the trip were rainy and crazily windy, we stayed at the hotel near Vik, didn't even bother to go to the Black Sand Beach. I did get some shots of the lupines in bloom in and around Vik. I have some pictures with my IR camera but I haven't looked at those yet.
ILCE-1Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/11.01/15s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/11.01/30s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens111mmf/8.01/60s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/8.01/1600s400 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens33mmf/10.01/3s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens44mmf/11.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens55mmf/14.01/50s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens130mmf/10.01/60s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens166mmf/18.01/25s100 ISO+1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens65mmf/14.01/30s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens70mmf/18.01/15s100 ISO0.0 EV
@Peire, @Besar, These were taken on June 5 at the 2024 NATO Tiger Meet at Schleswig AB in northern Germany. Hope the boys make you proud!
More than 10 NATO nations and partners sent their team to the exercise. It was my first time ever see European-made fighter jets, on ground or in air, I was like a kid in the candy store.
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