Icelandic Portraits

On the first of two workshops which I conducted in Iceland in July of 2004 we stopped one morning atThe Black Churchon the Snafelsness Peninsula. This unique church is located next to the ocean, with a waterfall on the hillside behind it. We spent about an hour shooting in the area, and part-way though our time there a couple of cars drove up. One contained a middle aged woman who opened the locked church, while the other had a young couple with a child.
Black Church Warden — Iceland, July 2004
Contax 645 with Kodak DCS Proback 645C and 35mm f/3.5 Distagon
A few members of our group who were shooting architectural shots of the church at the time were quite taken with the woman's appearance — her white hair and black dress, which mirrored the tones of the church itself. It turned out that she was the church Warden and was there with the family to prepare the church for a wedding ceremony later that afternoon. She spoke no English, but the couple did, and one of our workshop...