Barnafossar are close to Húsafell in the west region of Iceland

Rapids in glacial creek Geitá (Goat Creek) at the foothills of Kaldidalur

The Icelandic summer night yields interesting light

Hraunfossar (Lava Falls) is just down the river from Barnafossar

Hraunfossar (Lava Falls) in Hvítá

Just finished a very rewarding and fun assignment with the theatre group Lab Loki – photographing and designing the promo materials for the monologue Svikarinn. It´s a play written by Lab Loki´s Rúnar Guðbrandsson and Árni Pétur Guðjónsson, where they mix and match from Jean Genet´s plays mainly The Maids and Thief´s Journal with their own experiences. Rúnar directs and Árni acts– it´s a very powerful and captivating play. If in Iceland it can be seen at the Tjarnarbíó theater.

Phototrips in January are always refreshing, rinsing of the stale state of Christmas and new years and taking in fresh air and fresh views at the beginning of a new year.

Kleifarvatn Lake on the Reykjanes Peninsula, South West Iceland

Hotsprings in a frozen lake

January has thus far been very cold and windy, which usually means that the grey cloud soup that hangs around the south west of Iceland in winter, is lifted. Often displaying clear skies or interesting cloud patterns that really come alive during sunrise and sunset. Those two not so far apart during this time of year maybe 5 hours between them, a very good thing for landscape photography.
These photos are from the Reykjanes peninsula and the south west coast a spectacular area for photography and sightseeing, only minutes away from the Capital region.

Knarrarós Lighthouse near Stokkseyri on the South Coast of Iceland

Photography by Photographer Snorri Gunnarsson All rights reserved ©2011
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Since coming home in the beginning of the year I have been a frequent visitor at my sister´s farm, Sturluhóll in north Iceland. She and her husband are farmers, with sheep and horses- so usually there are many subjects for photography.
Below is a gallery with images taken at Sturluhóll. I did a couple of posts on Sturluhóll when I visited Iceland in 2008 you can view those ones here and here – for more images press the more link below….

I was happy to see that my photo from Gordon´s Beach ended up on the front page of the Outdoor Photographer website. I´ve been an avid reader of this fine publication for some time and enjoy the website, check it out Outdoorphotographer.com

Here is the original photograph, shot on the way home from canoeing on the San Juan River

My first assignment in Iceland was to photograph a play by the theater group LabLoki, called Ufsagrýlur or Gargoyles. It´s a great play by an Icelandic writer called Sjón and performed at the Hafnarfjarðarleikhúsið.

The poster and program was designed by me and my friends Thorri and Linda at Hringbrot.

Check out the slideshow with images from the preparation to the performance. Gargoyles|Ufsagrýlur

One of the most fun shoots this summer was a shoot I did for Shi Studio. Shi Studio, based in Victoria BC, designs jewelry and accessories. They have beautiful products for both men and women.

We decided to shoot the outdoors scenes at dusk on a great summer day. Using the golden hour to capture the models and the product in the late daylight.

Check out their website! and their new blog!

Click the more for more photos.

Lately I have been getting a lot of requests for technical information. Without going into to much detail(I am lazy) here goes:

Outside shoot. One AlienBee 800 Octagon softbox, stripped for harder light. Powered by a really long extension cord to a converter attached to a car. Should really get a nice portable battery unit! Everything shot with a Canon 5D – Canon 24-70 2.8 and Canon 16-45 MII 2.8.

Studio. 3 AlienBee softboxes, square ones for back, side and hair and an Octagon softbox for front fill. Same camera and lenses as outside.

I recently went over my archives and did some Black and White conversions of Icelandic Landscapes.
Here is a gallery with 11 B/W images – Iceland in B/W

“Light at dusk” could be the English  translation of the title of this book “Birtan í Húminu”. A book of poems by Canadian poets.
It was published by The Reykjavik International Literary Festival and features poets that have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, among them A.F. Moritz, C.D. Wright and Michael Ondaatje.
I had the honour of having one of my Photos on the cover.

Here is the original photo, it is from a fall trip to Port Renfrew.

Did an assignment for PNR shooting the RCMP Musical Ride last weekend. It was a fun event with sky divers, Scottish Pipers and of course the RCMP Musical Ride. Great to see the RCMP in their distinctive red uniforms and the Musical Ride was pretty amazing.

I often wondered how they managed not to injure themselves – a big group flying about on big horses with spears in their hands sounds like a recipe for disaster but the Musical Riders pulled it off gracefully and in style. Great show.

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