Camera settings, gear recommendations, and shooting techniques for Iceland’s unique conditions — from aurora photography to puffins, midnight sun to glacial ice.
The technique Iceland was made for Look through the images on this site — the Reynisfjara sea stacks dissolving into soft grey water, the icebergs at Diamond Beach with the surf smoothed to mist around them, Goðafoss rendered as a continuous band of white, Hvítserkur standing in glass. Nearly every one of them is a … Read more
Iceland is hard on equipment. Here is what six trips have taught me. Most camera gear guides for Iceland read like a sponsored product catalogue. This one is different — it is built on six trips across all seasons, on the lenses I wished I had brought, on the filters that earned their place in … Read more
The bird that makes itself available — if you let it come to you Puffins are not shy. That is both their charm and the source of the problem. An Atlantic puffin on its nesting cliff will often allow a human to approach closer than almost any other wild bird — not because it is … Read more
The aurora doesn’t wait for you to be ready In October 2024 I was sitting in a hot tub at Hótel Laxárbakki in northwest Iceland. No one in our group had checked the forecast that evening. No one had their camera out. The sky had been overcast for most of the day and expectations were … Read more