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Sunset on Þorgeirsfellshyrna
This is a view facing northwest from Ytri Tunga (Seal Beach) toward the 601-metre-high mountain Þorgeirsfellshyrna, the name of which roughly translates into Thor’s-spear-mountain-peak. The leftmost building sitting on a hillock is Kirkjuhóll Lighthouse. So far as I know, the … Continue reading
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The Moon and Mount Saint Helens
Shot from near Seaquest State Park with Silver Lake in the foreground. Saint Helens is the lump on the horizon left of centre. (Click on the image for a full-sized version.)
Herring Girls
Cut steel plate sculpture by artist Arthur Ragnarsson. The work commemorates the women (including the artist’s mother and grandmother) who worked tirelessly during Sigló’s 20th-century herring heyday, which lasted until the stock collapsed in the 1960s. The memorial sculpture was … Continue reading
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Goðafoss Diptych
A quasi-panoramic photo comprised of a pair of sequential frames shot with the Olympus Pen half-frame camera. (Click on the image for a full-res version.)
Grána
The Grána fish meal and oil factory is part of Siglufjörður’s fascinating Herring Era Museum and worth the time if you ever find yourself in this part of northern Iceland. Click here for my review of the small-but-mighty Olympus Pen … Continue reading
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Kolufoss Waterfall
The Isolette is a great, medium-format travel camera. You can find my review of it here.
Looking Seawards
Bronze sculpture by Ingi P. Gislason on Reykjavík harbour, a short walk southeast from the Reykjavík Maritime Museum. Click here for my review of the delightful Olympus Pen half-frame camera.
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Eve in the Botanic Gardens
Sculpted from white marble by Scipione Tadolini around 1880.
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