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There are as many ways of doing landscape and nature photography as there are photographers. For some, such photography is an activity akin to fly fishing. Find a likely spot and work it until you get a catch. For others photography is more like hunting — keeping on the move searching for prey.
For me it’s the latter, and this was brought home to me doing the two week-long workshops which I conducted in Iceland in the summer of 2004. Each workshop consisted of 12 people and lasted for 7 days. During each of those weeks we drove some 2,500 km, at least half of it on dirt roads and mountain tracks.
Because Iceland is located close to the Arctic circle, in late June and early July daylight lasts for more than 21 hours, and on the northern coast there is as little as 30 minutes of “night” each day. These extremely long days, with as much as 4 hours of golden light on either side of sunset create a huge problem for photographers, along with some excellent photograph...

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Michael Reichmann
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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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