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Rajan Parrikar

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Loðmundarfjörður
« on: May 23, 2013, 12:09:31 pm »

A remote, abandoned fjord in east Iceland.  More images in my latest blog post.





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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2013, 03:10:46 pm »

#2 does a good job of conveying scale and isolation. The rest is well done, too!

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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2013, 03:45:16 pm »

#2 started to work for me after I discovered the house and the winded road. Unfortunately that house hasn't the red roof like the house in #1. To be honest I would be tempted ... but I know that nowadays this is a no-go
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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2013, 05:12:09 pm »

Rajan,

My wife and I enjoyed your latest Iceland photos immensely. She was especially delighted to see the wild Rhubarb, as we have cultivated Rhubarb in our garden.

Eric M.

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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2013, 09:30:21 pm »

Thank you, all.

Eric - my wife learnt to make rhubarb jam (rabarbarasulta)  in Iceland.  See this.

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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2013, 05:28:53 am »

Thank you, all.

Eric - my wife learnt to make rhubarb jam (rabarbarasulta)  in Iceland.  See this.

Both images are very nice but #2 is outstanding. It shows the vast and almost empty expanses of land in Iceland. This is a thing that always struck me.

My mother still does make some rhubarb jam, with a very similar recipe, but she's not from Iceland!
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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2013, 07:09:20 pm »

#2 is exquisite!

My granddad was a farmer in upstate New York, grew a lot of rhubarb and berries. As a kid I ate a lot of rhubarb pie. Sadly I haven’t had any like my grandmother made in many decades. No one in the family seems to be able to make it like she could.

Later Larry
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Re: Loðmundarfjörður
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2013, 11:13:01 am »

You can watch an Icelander play a xylophone made out of rhubarb stalks in Sigur Ros' excellent video "Heima". And see lots of Icelandic landscapes.


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