Featured Images 2002

This page features photographs from my portfolio taken during the past several months with which I am particularly pleased and for which there is an interesting story. 
June, 2002

Photographed with a Pentax 645II and Pentax 300mm (67) APO f/4 lens on Provia 100F
Iceland, which I visited for the first time in late June, offers up some of the world's most spectacular landscapes. But, I was unprepared for this otherworldly scene. It was 2am on the day after the summer solstice and we were driving on Hwy 1 in northern Iceland, close to the Arctic Ocean. This bizarrely illuminated lenticular cloud started to form and we quickly stopped to photograph it. A farmhouse was on the hillside before us. (Sunrise would be 1 hour later, at 3am).
To hold both the sky and the foreground would have required the use of a 3 stop split ND filter. I had one in the truck, but decided not to use it‚ instead lettering the foreground go dark, adding to the mystery of this already remarkable scene.
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