Black Sand Beach of Iceland

Black sand beach Iceland

The Black Sand Beach in Iceland is a tourist destination along the main road in southern Iceland, east of Reykjavík. Here you can expect wedding photographers, tour buses, food trucks, patrolled paid parking and a few avid photographers.

Winter is a better time of year to visit the Black Sand Beach of Iceland.  There are some wonderful hotels nearby.  Winter is best from a photography point of view because the light is better with the sun lower in the horizon, bigger storms and larger icebergs on the beach.  During the summer months, the iceberg remnants are having a contest to see which can melt away the fastest.  In the winter it is a struggle of survival for the heartiest photographer.  I visited in the winter of 2015.  Iceland Winter Visit.  Our goal in 2024 was to photograph Iceland from the air, from both an airplane and a helicopter.  But first we need to travel to our tiny inland airport, photographing southern Iceland along the way.

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Antarctic Abstracts, Goodbye to the Whales and Penguins

 

The melting snow reveals snow fall layers from many prior seasons and Antarctic abstracts.

In one small section of this coastal area we spotted varied Antarctic abstract designs.  The melting snow was revealing the layers of previous years of snow, creating interesting designs.  These muted color patterns in the cliffs were several stories tall.

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Brightly Colored Homes, Newfoundland

Brightly colored homes

Brightly colored homes in Newfoundland, Canada

My theory regarding brightly colored homes seems to still hold true.  European towns with long, cold winters have the most brightly painted houses.  These brightly colored homes were a common sight in St. Johns NL, Newfoundland-Labrador, Canada.  Most every home and business in this town followed this tradition.  Islands seem to have more subtle pastels.

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Greenland Villages

 

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Nanortalik, Greenland Field of Dreams

Greenland villages are small by any standard.  The largest town in Greenland, the largest island on earth, has less than 20,000 inhabitants.  Nanortalik has about 1,100 people making it the eleventh largest town on the island.  So I was wondering what is the eleventh largest city in the US?  If you go strictly by incorporated city limits, it is Austin, Texas.  If you include the primary statistical area it is the Miami, Fort Lauderdale area with over six million residents.

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Kenya Photo Safari

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Elephant portrait

Kenya Photo Safari Begins

The next couple weeks were spent bouncing around Kenya exploring the savanna from the window of a Land Rover.  I was the only person in our ten photographer group to not print off the correct travel documents for entry into Kenya from Uganda.  Fortunately, we had gotten to the airport in time to correct this oversight.  More African travel frustrations.  Continue reading

Grand Canyon Erosion Photography

Grand Canyon Erosion

Layers upon layers of rock in a mile deep canyon, the Grand Canyon

Most any photo of the Grand Canyon landscape will reveal the many colorful layers of very different rocks.  Billions of years of erosion and upheaval have revealed ten distinct layers.  My favorite to photograph was the vishnu shist.

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Reflections in the Grand Canyon

 

It seems viewers expect photos of the Grand Canyon to look like, well, the Grand Canyon.  However, a great variety of reflections in the Colorado River kept me occupied.  These abstract, more intimate scenes, are preferable to me over your typical landscape photography.

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