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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Rajan Parrikar on January 19, 2023, 01:43:30 pm

Title: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on January 19, 2023, 01:43:30 pm: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes (https://blog.parrikar.com/2023/01/19/light-in-iceland-reykjanes/)
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: RMW on January 19, 2023, 11:44:03 pm: Rajan,
Please bear with me as I express a thought to you.
It seems to me you make of the camera a literary instrument. Sometimes you create sonnets of elegant proportions and at other times you make haikus of spare meaning. This foto I can't say what it is. It has both classic design and a freedom from literal meaning. I admire it and I'm bewildered by it. The light is almost sacred, yet the abstractness makes it personally difficult to feel.
I'm grateful that it is so elusive. However much merit it has for anyone else, I value very much the experience of being stumped.
Thank you.
Richard
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: kers on January 20, 2023, 03:49:40 am: Majestic as is the other photo on your site.
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: francois on January 20, 2023, 10:12:16 am: Soft and wonderful light, like nowhere else!
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on January 21, 2023, 04:16:45 am: Quote from: RMW on January 19, 2023, 11:44:03 pm
Rajan,
Please bear with me as I express a thought to you.
It seems to me you make of the camera a literary instrument. Sometimes you create sonnets of elegant proportions and at other times you make haikus of spare meaning. This foto I can't say what it is. It has both classic design and a freedom from literal meaning. I admire it and I'm bewildered by it. The light is almost sacred, yet the abstractness makes it personally difficult to feel.
I'm grateful that it is so elusive. However much merit it has for anyone else, I value very much the experience of being stumped.
Thank you.
Richard

Thank you, Richard. Getting to experience Iceland in this manner has been a blessing.
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on January 21, 2023, 04:20:14 am: Quote from: kers on January 20, 2023, 10:12:16 am
Majestic as is the other photo on your site.

Quote from: francois on January 20, 2023, 10:12:16 am
Soft and wonderful light, like nowhere else!

Pieter & Francois - thank you, gentlemen.

Francois - Iceland is the northernmost one can go to have a civilization and experience this kind of light. Any further north (eg. Svalbard) and you will still get this light, but the extremes of polar night & day make normal living quite difficult.
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: francois on January 21, 2023, 07:11:35 am: Quote from: Rajan Parrikar on January 21, 2023, 04:20:14 am
Pieter & Francois - thank you, gentlemen.

Francois - Iceland is the northernmost one can go to have a civilization and experience this kind of light. Any further north (eg. Svalbard) and you will still get this light, but the extremes of polar night & day make normal living quite difficult.

Thanks Rajan… I've never travelled further north than Iceland but I can easily imagine how normal life can be up there.
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 21, 2023, 11:35:34 pm: I love Iceland and your photos from Iceland.

This is one of the very best (so far!)
Title: Re: Light in Iceland: Reykjanes
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on January 22, 2023, 09:36:05 am: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 21, 2023, 11:35:34 pm
I love Iceland and your photos from Iceland.

This is one of the very best (so far!)

Thank you, Eric.