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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Rajan Parrikar on February 08, 2014, 04:22:23 pm

Title: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 08, 2014, 04:22:23 pm
In the East Fjords region of Iceland.  Video of the car rescue and more images in my blog post (http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2014/02/08/rescue-on-mjoafjardarheidi/).

Sunrise on Mjóafjarðarheiði (http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2014/02/08/rescue-on-mjoafjardarheidi/)

(http://www.parrikar.org/images/LL/Sunrise-Mjoafjardarheidi-Iceland.jpg)



Stranded Car

(http://www.parrikar.org/images/LL/Rescue-Mjoafjardarheidi-Iceland.jpg)

Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 08, 2014, 04:47:36 pm
So this guy just assumed someone would come by if he waited long enough, say until June?
He was pretty lucky!

I'm glad they came back for you, Rajan.  ;)
Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 08, 2014, 04:49:35 pm
So this guy just assumed someone would come by if he waited long enough, say until June?
He was pretty lucky!

I'm glad they came back for you, Rajan.  ;)


Ha!

He could have trudged to the main road, so his life wasn't in any imminent danger.
Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: markadams99 on February 09, 2014, 01:06:08 am
Very nice. Your 2014 website works well by the way. So many portfolios are clunky or slow - not yours. The basic surface of your Iceland shots is attractive to me - not stressed, over sharpened or dramatized.   I'd be interested to know how a Goan-Californian became so committed to scouring Iceland, especially in winter.
Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on February 09, 2014, 03:31:18 pm
Very nice. Your 2014 website works well by the way. So many portfolios are clunky or slow - not yours. The basic surface of your Iceland shots is attractive to me - not stressed, over sharpened or dramatized.   I'd be interested to know how a Goan-Californian became so committed to scouring Iceland, especially in winter.

Rajan is a cosmic polite citizen - isn't that called a cosmopolitan? ;)
Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 09, 2014, 04:26:03 pm
Very nice. Your 2014 website works well by the way. So many portfolios are clunky or slow - not yours. The basic surface of your Iceland shots is attractive to me - not stressed, over sharpened or dramatized.   I'd be interested to know how a Goan-Californian became so committed to scouring Iceland, especially in winter.

Mark,

Thank you.

The Portfolio design and template is from http://www.aphotofolio.com.  My blog is on the Wordpress platform.

Re. Goan-American & Iceland.  Briefly: I first visited Iceland 8 years ago as an electrical engineer with a point-and-shoot (never held a SLR before) and came back feeling uneasy (and not a little stupid) after realizing I knew nothing about photography.  The impact Iceland made on that visit was life-changing.  And now here I am.  My predilection is for stark, desolate places.  Iceland and Mojave/Death Valley are them.  Goa, of course, is home.  Iceland feels so much like home, too.

Christoph - your spin on cosmopolitan noted.


Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 09, 2014, 05:19:47 pm
Rajan is obviously a native Icelander, a native California desert rat, and a native Goan. All of his photos look as if he has been living and photographing there (-- all three "theres"--) all his life.

And to have gotten to this point as a photographer in only eight years! Wow!
Title: Re: Sunrise and Car Rescue on Mjóafjarðarheiði
Post by: francois on February 10, 2014, 04:06:38 am
Rajan is obviously a native Icelander, a native California desert rat, and a native Goan. All of his photos look as if he has been living and photographing there (-- all three "theres"--) all his life.

And to have gotten to this point as a photographer in only eight years! Wow!


I agree, he is a multifaceted, very talented photographer. It's always a pleasure to see Rajan's images.