Northern Lights

Iceland

January I finally had my breaking point with wanting to go see Iceland. I finally booked my plane ticket to force myself to make it to my dream destination. February came along and it was time to travel to Iceland. Originally I wasn’t going to go to Iceland as a Solo-Trip. I scheduled it so quickly, I didn’t have any extra time to organize any travel buddies. So I landed in Iceland early morning and ventured to my rental car. Was able to get the rental car reasonably fast and off I was towards Reykjavik. The point of this trip was to discover a new destination, see the culture, landscape, and to hopefully have a chance at capturing the Northern Lights. To get around the country I rolled around in a Nissan SUV. While living in the car, I had to listen to the roaring Iceland wind at night. About 4 days into my 7 day trip there were 180km/h winds that prevented me from driving for half the day. I also got to explore a cave that was used in a scene of Game of Thrones. Along with meeting a lot of pleasant travelers on the way exploring the country too. The Ring-Road brought a lot of unexpected landscapes, I absolutely was stopping the car every 5 minutes to capture something completely different than the last 5 minutes. Well, here are my photos from my crazy cross-country Iceland trip.

Reykjavik - Leifur Eiríksson Statue

Reykjavik - Leifur Eiríksson Statue

Crazy waves

Crazy waves

Famous church in Vík

Famous church in Vík

Iceland Horse Farmers

Iceland Horse Farmers

Ice and Stars

Ice and Stars

Vestrahorn

Vestrahorn

Game of Thrones Cave

Game of Thrones Cave

Waterfall Rainbow

Waterfall Rainbow

Stallion Mountain

Stallion Mountain

S-curve River

S-curve River

Kirkjufellfoss

Kirkjufellfoss

Northern Lights - Kirkjufellfoss

Northern Lights - Kirkjufellfoss

Crazy yellow landscape

Crazy yellow landscape

Horse photo-bomb

Horse photo-bomb

Beautiful sea-stack on black sand beach

Beautiful sea-stack on black sand beach

Glacial spikes

Glacial spikes

Mountain Peak

Mountain Peak

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Snowy mood on farm house

Snowy mood on farm house

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Höfn

Höfn

Stone pathway to Red Church

Stone pathway to Red Church

Northern Lights - Kirkjufellfoss

Northern Lights - Kirkjufellfoss

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Photoshop "Dreamscapes"

Photoshop has been a love and hate relationship for me since I jumped into the program. Sometimes it does what I want to do and sometimes I wonder how wrong could it actually get. This beautiful program has made so many things easier to do and broadened the road for more creative pieces. The multi-use program has been helpful to me in many different situations and shoots. From photoshopping small details out to compositing images like this, or repairing a subject. Photoshops many great uses have benefited and broadened art.

These images below were all crafted with images I took personally. They are from many different locations such as Yosemite National Park, Iceland, Grand Teton National Park, etc. These locations are all special to me, along with the beautifulness each spot holds. In total I spent about 40 hours creating this group of work.