Blue Hour - 12" x 18"
‘Blue Hour’ is one of my personal favorite photos, and it represents a quintessential aspect of landscape photography called ‘Chasing the Light’ - and moreso, represents the failure to do so that every landscape photographer experiences at some point. This was taken on the first day of my camper van powered Iceland solo excursion in 2018. I had a whirlwind morning and afternoon getting off my overnight flight, getting the van, and then hitting a destination WAY out of the way for an incredible lunch while filming a (now abandoned) mini documentary. My plan was to leave from there and get to the campsite at the world famous Skogafoss waterfall (if you’ve never been to Iceland, it is probably the waterfall you’ve seen in Iceland), with plans to arrive right at golden hour and do some wonderful sunset photos at that iconic site. But things kept getting delayed as I simply couldn’t resist pulling off the road for shot after shot as I made the drive to the camp ground. And just like that, one of the more beautiful sunsets I’ve ever experienced happened while I was stuck in a van in a stretch of nothingness along the southern coast of Iceland.
So I pulled off the road, so as not to miss both experiencing it, and trying to capture it, but without a compelling composition. Once the sun dipped below the horizon, however, the blues of ‘blue hour’ exploded on the water and in the clouds, and I was able to get one of the most minimalist photos I’ve taken in my life. And it remains one of my favorites for the serene waters and sky, bisected by the perfectly black stretch of land jutting off the island along the horizon. It is unlike almost every other photograph I’ve taken previously, and I’ve never quite found a way to recapture that style since.
Printed on MOAB Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper. This serene image, taken in Iceland in 2018, shimmers with the pearlescent paper. 12” wide by 18” tall. Best matted and framed for 18” x 24” matted picture frame (not included). Contact me for custom matting/framing quotes.
Limited to 50 prints. Includes numbered & signed badge on the back of the image.
‘Blue Hour’ is one of my personal favorite photos, and it represents a quintessential aspect of landscape photography called ‘Chasing the Light’ - and moreso, represents the failure to do so that every landscape photographer experiences at some point. This was taken on the first day of my camper van powered Iceland solo excursion in 2018. I had a whirlwind morning and afternoon getting off my overnight flight, getting the van, and then hitting a destination WAY out of the way for an incredible lunch while filming a (now abandoned) mini documentary. My plan was to leave from there and get to the campsite at the world famous Skogafoss waterfall (if you’ve never been to Iceland, it is probably the waterfall you’ve seen in Iceland), with plans to arrive right at golden hour and do some wonderful sunset photos at that iconic site. But things kept getting delayed as I simply couldn’t resist pulling off the road for shot after shot as I made the drive to the camp ground. And just like that, one of the more beautiful sunsets I’ve ever experienced happened while I was stuck in a van in a stretch of nothingness along the southern coast of Iceland.
So I pulled off the road, so as not to miss both experiencing it, and trying to capture it, but without a compelling composition. Once the sun dipped below the horizon, however, the blues of ‘blue hour’ exploded on the water and in the clouds, and I was able to get one of the most minimalist photos I’ve taken in my life. And it remains one of my favorites for the serene waters and sky, bisected by the perfectly black stretch of land jutting off the island along the horizon. It is unlike almost every other photograph I’ve taken previously, and I’ve never quite found a way to recapture that style since.
Printed on MOAB Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper. This serene image, taken in Iceland in 2018, shimmers with the pearlescent paper. 12” wide by 18” tall. Best matted and framed for 18” x 24” matted picture frame (not included). Contact me for custom matting/framing quotes.
Limited to 50 prints. Includes numbered & signed badge on the back of the image.
‘Blue Hour’ is one of my personal favorite photos, and it represents a quintessential aspect of landscape photography called ‘Chasing the Light’ - and moreso, represents the failure to do so that every landscape photographer experiences at some point. This was taken on the first day of my camper van powered Iceland solo excursion in 2018. I had a whirlwind morning and afternoon getting off my overnight flight, getting the van, and then hitting a destination WAY out of the way for an incredible lunch while filming a (now abandoned) mini documentary. My plan was to leave from there and get to the campsite at the world famous Skogafoss waterfall (if you’ve never been to Iceland, it is probably the waterfall you’ve seen in Iceland), with plans to arrive right at golden hour and do some wonderful sunset photos at that iconic site. But things kept getting delayed as I simply couldn’t resist pulling off the road for shot after shot as I made the drive to the camp ground. And just like that, one of the more beautiful sunsets I’ve ever experienced happened while I was stuck in a van in a stretch of nothingness along the southern coast of Iceland.
So I pulled off the road, so as not to miss both experiencing it, and trying to capture it, but without a compelling composition. Once the sun dipped below the horizon, however, the blues of ‘blue hour’ exploded on the water and in the clouds, and I was able to get one of the most minimalist photos I’ve taken in my life. And it remains one of my favorites for the serene waters and sky, bisected by the perfectly black stretch of land jutting off the island along the horizon. It is unlike almost every other photograph I’ve taken previously, and I’ve never quite found a way to recapture that style since.
Printed on MOAB Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper. This serene image, taken in Iceland in 2018, shimmers with the pearlescent paper. 12” wide by 18” tall. Best matted and framed for 18” x 24” matted picture frame (not included). Contact me for custom matting/framing quotes.
Limited to 50 prints. Includes numbered & signed badge on the back of the image.