Just finished a project for the play School of Transformation a production made by Steinunn Knútsdóttir of Herbergi408 and Zoe Christiansen of Mobile Homes….

Did portraits, designed the posters and promotional material and did a small website which you can see here. School of Transformation is a part of the LOKAL theatre festival that starts today in Reykjavik.

School of Transformation – Images by Snorri Gunnarsson

Snorri Gunnarsson is an Icelandic Photographer based in Reykjavik Iceland. Focusing on Landscape, commercial, wedding and editorial photography.

Under the south hills of the Langjökull Glacier, are many spectacular places that are easy to visit in a 4×4. One of those places is Nýjifoss (New Falls) and the river that hosts it, Farið (The Mark). The best way to get to this place from Reykjavik is by going through Thingvellir National Park…

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From there the mountain roads lead up to Bláskógarheidi on Road number 52. After a while one drives by a pretty dried up lake called Uxaklyftarvatn, from there it´s a short way to the junction where the mountain road F338 goes to the right under the south hills of the Langjökull glacier. This road is spectacular, with black desert sands contrasted by green grass patches and all the way littered by huge pylons, moving electricity from the electric dams in the highlands. These pylons are certainly not for everyone but they do make an impression and sometimes the lines form interesting forms against all the nothingness.
This area is criss crossed with interesting paths leading south towards the Thingvellir area and north to the roots of the Langjokull glacier. Around Hlöðufell mountain and up to the shoulders of Skjaldbreidur mountain. One of the tracks leads from Hlöðufell and to Laugarvatn (Bath Lake) through a very interesting terrain.

As we approach the manmade lake Sandvatn (Sand Lake) made to stop the sand and mud storms that swept across this area and down into the farmlands south of here, we cross a small river easy to cross in any truck or SUV and hit the Kjölur Mountain Road. Heading north for a few minutes we turn left onto F335 that leads to our final destination, Hagavatn and Farið.
This road is rather featureless goes through rock covered ground, flat all the way to the mountains surrounding the Langjökull glacier to the south.

As soon as we traverse the small pass through the Jarlhettur mountains (Earl hats mountains) the landscape jumps up in scale from boring to amazing. Green hills, big rocks, glacial river and the looming glacier all surrounded by majestic mountains and in the midst a small rescue hut with a lone birch tree to chalk up a perfect picture.

After crossing the river, the way is pretty straight forward to Nýjifoss (New Falls), besides the falls is a very steep hill- that is hard to travel even in heavy duty trucks, so the best bet is to walk up the short but steep hill to Hagavatn.

Hagavatn – Images by Snorri Gunnarsson

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Snorri Gunnarsson is an Icelandic Photographer based in Reykjavik Iceland. Focusing on Landscape, commercial, wedding and editorial photography.

My band which I play guitar for just released a single from an upcoming album. It´s called Föllin which could translate to Falls or Falling. Check out the song on youtube.
We made the video ourselves zero budget but alot of hard work. Hope you enjoy!

Snorri Gunnarsson is an Icelandic Photographer based in Reykjavik Iceland. Focusing on Landscape, commercial, wedding and editorial photography.

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

Again working for the theater, now designing and photographing for a very special performance called Jöklar or Glaciers. It is a play that is performed in 4 locations in Iceland, brodcasted live on the internet and in a movie theatre. Pretty ambitious production and great to be a part of. The play will be opened on Friday at 8 o´clock and can be seen on the web at Herbergi408.is

The second day was much better with a mixed bag of glaring sun, thick fog and everything in-between. The area around Landmannalaugar is very beautiful, and so different in winter with snow covering everything. I went as a passenger with a friend as I do not yet! own a Land Rover – After this trip the Land Rover virus has spread and is now a full blown disease!

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It is shot on a Canon 5D mark II, with 85mm 1.2 – Canon 24-70mm 2.8 and 70-200mm 2.8

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.

To continue the good spirit of giving, here is a wallpaper with a 2011 february calendar. Just click on the image that corresponds with your screen resolution, wait for it to load and save it to your desktop.

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All images are ©Snorri Gunnarsson 2011 – above images can only be used for personal uses, no commercial use allowed. All rights reserved.

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