Iceland 2003

I first visited Icelandin the summer of 2002, and it was love at first exposure. I've done landscape photography all over the world, but Iceland captured my heart and my imagination like no other place. Exactly 12 months later, in late June, 2003, I returned for another week of photography. This time it was with a small invitational workshop group, and with a secondary purpose of scouting locations and figuring logistics for a series of workshops that I plan to hold there in the summer of 2004. (More on this at the end of the article).
The members of this small workshop wereThomas Knoll, the original author ofPhotoshop, andBill Caulfeild-Browne, a board member of theNature Conservancy of Canada— both very fine photographers. Thomas and Bill had each attended two previous workshops of mine, and I know that Iceland was high on their must-see list. The fourth member of our party wasChris Sanderson, the director of theVideo Journal.
The two best photographs from this shoot can be fo...