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Old school ...

At the age of 15 I moved to Akureyri to attend this college. Back then I didn't exactly have my future planned out to the most minute detail but I had som vague intention of broadening my horizon. At first I was mainly interested in studying litterature and arts but ended up majoring in mathematics and physic. Most importantly I got to know some great people there and the 4 years I spent there were most certainly the most adventurous day's of my life.

Uploaded on Jul 23, 2008

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Sigurhæðir ...

might be translated to "Victory heights". This house was built by Matthías Jochumsson in 1903. Matthías was a priest and a poet. He was the author of the poem "Lofsöngur" a.k.a. "Ó guð vors lands", Iceland's national anthem. The house is now a museum dedicated to Matthías and his legacy. If anyone's interested in the poem it can be found here.

I spent a few day's of my vacation in Akureyri last week and took a tour around the village, mainly to shoot the places I spent my time while attending collage there in the late eighties. I might upload some of it soon.

The image is an HDR from 3 exposures, processed in Photomatix and Photoshop.

Uploaded on Jul 22, 2008

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Midnight glory ...

As I was going to bed just before midnight last Thursday I noticed that there was quite an amazing show going on in the norhtern sky above Reykjavik. I grabbed my camera and tripod, rushed out to the lawn and took some shots for an HDR panorama.

When doing HDR panoramas I start making HDR's from 3 exposures each in Photomatix. Then I use photomerge in Photoshop CS3 to stitch them up. Then some curve adjustment to squeese out some moore color. I uploaded a high resolution version of this image if someone is interested in a closer look.

Uploaded on Jul 21, 2008

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Tiny whale ...

I found this harbour porpoise on the beach in Garður about a month ago. My guess is that it's a rather young animal as it was only about 70 cm long and weighing 20 kg at the most. Adults from this species can grow upto 1.5-2 meters long. It may just be the most normal thing for a whale to become beached every now and then. But I fear it may have something to do with how we treat nature.

I myself have been doing fine recently. I haven't done much photography in the past few months, but that's all about to change. I'm starting to take photos and making images again. As alway's I'm hoping to improve my work and define my own style. If it catches someones eyes that a big bonus too.

I also revived my old blog

Uploaded on Jul 20, 2008

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Greenhouse fx ...

Finally I managed to a get a few hours of shooting tonight. I found this abandoned greenhouse in Hveragerði, which was heavily hit with an earthquake a few days ago. Although that fact probably nothing to do with the shape of this establishment.

Uploaded on Jun 18, 2008

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Old school ...

Sigurhæðir ...

Midnight glory ...

Tiny whale ...

Greenhouse fx ...

Akureyri

High dynamic range

Long exposure

Panorama

Monotone

Heavy metal

Muted colors

Whales and whaling

Old toy camera

Winding ...

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