Tag Archives: Photography

Last year

An experiment with some pics from last year. last year from Jessie on Vimeo.
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Art

“Remember, art is fun. Like magic, it brings you into another world.  The trick is to trick yourself into entering that world.” — Dennis Mc Mahon
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A ferd til Hvalfjörður (A trip to Whale-fjord)

A and I took a road trip to Hvalfjörður, or Whale-fjord, not long ago.  We took the scenic route there, and stopped along the way to check out a river that had frozen over.  This is what I love about Iceland:  you can drive a matter of minutes outside of Reykjavík proper and spot something [...]
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Don’t forget to look up

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Snowflake Bentley: Snow Up Close

Last week in New York, photographs by Wilson A. Bentley (aka the Snowflake Bentley and The Snowflake Man), the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera, went up for sale at the American Antiques Show. The vintage images are breathtaking… “Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one [...]
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Andrew Bush

I love these photographs by Andrew Bush, a nice tribute to subtle things.  He has so many of them, dating back to 1992.
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Rilke

July 16, 1903 Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, Like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to [...]
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Fun at the Bláa lónið (Blue Lagoon)

This is probably the most touristy place one can go while in Iceland, aside from the Golden Circle tour to Þingvellir – likely comparable to Disneyworld or Times Square in the US, but it is a treat to go, nonetheless.  The water is an ethereal and opaque light blue color, a result of some of the minerals [...]
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