Icelandic Autumn
Autumn is here and Iceland feels magical.
Iceland emanates a certain feeling through Autumn. You can hear its voice in the wind howling through the trees.
The leaves draw their last breath and smell like an ancient home, whispering words only few can hear.
The light fades day by day. But the long dark still seems far away.
There is a stillness that creates motion. A shift inward. As it is only through the stillness and the silence, offered by a place like this, a lone island in the cold far north, that you can truly listen to what's within.
Photographing Weddings - The Fun Way
I don’t often photograph weddings. But when I do, I enjoy doing so because weddings can many times be, what I call “high energy places”.
A bride is seen dancing in her white wedding dress, with her friends are dancing and having fun around her.
I don’t often photograph weddings . But when I do, I enjoy doing so because weddings can be what I call “high energy places”.
High energy places, are situations of intense social energy. A protest, a concert, a birthday party, a Sunday barbecue, or a wedding. While the ceremony is usually more formal, demanding people to be a bit more stiff, leading to stiffer images, the party after the ceremony is something else. It is there that people loosen up, drink, dance, sing and occasionally go crazy.
So I just love it when i am hired to photograph in these type of after-ceremony wedding parties. I usually use a handheld flash since the light conditions in most venues are poor. But also do that to freeze action. I combine the flash with slow shutter speeds to also use some of the ambient light of the space but also, have some extra layer of actions in the background. I feel that catching the right moment like this, can really capture energy of the party and leads to fun photographs that the couple and guests can have as a souvenir for a lifetime.
These are some of the images from the latest wedding I got assigned to photograph in Iceland.
Nature's Rare Spectacle: Volcano Eruption Meets Northern Lights
The stars aligned last night and I was able to capture an image I was waiting for a long time now, the erupting volcano with the Northern Lights, the rare phenomenon, where the fiery force of the Earth meets the celestial dance of the sky.
This extraordinary convergence is exceedingly rare. Volcanic eruptions, driven by tectonic forces beneath the Earth's crust, are unpredictable and often violent. In contrast, the Northern Lights are a delicate, atmospheric phenomenon caused by charged particles from the sun interacting with Earth's magnetic field. For both to occur simultaneously is a unique event, requiring precise conditions—clear skies, high geomagnetic activity, and an active volcano.
Photographers and nature lovers cherish such moments, as they offer a glimpse into the incredible forces that shape our planet and beyond. This image of this dual spectacle, for me not only captures a fleeting moment of natural wonder but also serves as a reminder of the powerful and beautiful forces at play on Earth and in the universe.
A night to remember.
Explorations of shape, form and colour, with Donna Carnow
Portrait session with pole dancing artist Donna Canrow, Reykjavik, October 2022.
Portrait session with pole dancing artist Donna Carnow, whose skills and strength truly defy gravity. Here’s some of the images we created through our recent collaboration.
Interested in the flow of movement during dancing acts and the way this can be captured through photography, I mostly used slow-shutter speeds to capture the flow of Donna’s movements and emphasize on the overall movement rather than instants of it.
We used a single LED light with variable colour hues for the most part of the shoot, and combined it with a few speedlight flashes for some of the images to freeze motion. I wanted the color palette for the shoot to be vibrant, bold and always changing like the motion in most pole-dancing acts.
Donna Carnow (she/her) - is a Brooklyn-based pole dancer, aerial pole artist, choreographer, teacher, performer, national pole champion, and human pretzel-tornado.
Donna’s performative abilities have been celebrated in the New York Times, Variety, The New Yorker, The New York Post, Theatermania, and more. She is the Pole Sport Organization 2022 US National Pole Art Champion where “she POLE the show” (New York Post). Donna is also known for starring in the off-broadway show Seven Deadly Sins NYC in Bess Wohl’s play, LUST, voiced by Cynthia Nixon. Her performance was described as the “production’s true showstopper” (New York Times). Currently, Donna is a soloist in Company XIV’s production of Nutcracker Rouge, a resident artist at The Slipper Room, and a regular performer in nightlife, circus, and competition spaces + productions worldwide.
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Event Photography - Sóðabrók
Event photography assignment for Sóðabrók, Reykjavik, September 2022.
Assignment for the burlesque performance team of Sóðabrók, Reykjavik, September 2022.
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