Insane. Iceland. | 💥 | "Concluding my series about the mysterious country" | 33 photo's |

Since being a medical student entails having a 60h work week without a salary, the university does compensate us with some quite lengthy breaks.
During the first week of my 4-week Holliday, I visited a country I was most hyped about visiting for so long.

Being a photographer for 4 years who traveled with 9 lenses
"Iceland did not let me down." 😊

Iceland is the third most windy country in the world. There is insane vulcanic activity (remember the europe flight traffic some years ago?) I am sure what mother nature must have thought while creating it: "well, let's see what humanity would do with a volcanic place, stripped from all possible control they love so much having"

Since I want to show you way too many pictures (33) I keep the writing to a minimum. Now sit back and scroll away, I invite you to click on the photos for a full resolution render

This spike-tired bus was our mothership during our stay. 🚍

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The colours, as well as the cleanest sky and most delicious water, are something you have not ever encountered before. It seemed Iceland only knows two colour states during the winter: Pastel coloring and Black and white. First of are the colored shots.

Maybe there are too many pastel sunsets shown here, but whenever a landscape scenario does almost bring me to tears I just have to include them... 🗻♥

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The mothership did get stuck for over 3 hours. Mother nature is relentless, even bus drivers with over 40 years of experience are not properly armed against it it seems. 🚍🌨

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Talking about the problematic elements:
During the last day, a heavy storm was heading over Iceland's capital, turning a nice walk into a tremendously scary endeavor which ended in a taxi ride home. 🚖 What's more, we had not even one uncloudy night, so no stars nor northern lights for us sadly 😔

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I can't help myself but shoot some abstract work alongside my normally more realistic photos. Above you see a long exposure from the buss and some water at the Reykjavik harbor. See the Desaturated section below for abstracts

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This second chapter will mainly show you the great contrasts between blacks and whites seen in Iceland. Starting off with this bird, that was just minding its own business (being food) while I was so rude to interrupt with my camera.

Don't ever use your flash while capturing animals, lets be nice to our fellow species.

Those monochrome shots make me really want to visit Iceland during the summer. I am just so curious what tints I would be able to capture while photosynthesis is doing its thing.

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And then that moment came... Having to head home again.😕
Just five days in Iceland feel like a month. The lack of control of what and where you can go yields lots of tiny moments of stress. This surrender to the elements is something we are not used to in The Netherlands. We just built big and great walls against the rising waters. Here just planning one day ahead was too much to ask. It was both the most weirdest and inspiring truth 🌬✨

As seen above, traveling to the airport to head home again was complicated by the heaviest storm Reykjavik had seen in a year. Yep the same one we experienced the night before . (source: the bus driver )
On the left, you can see the engine of the plane while standing still, accelerating and flying.

Iceland is 3 times the size of the Netherlands with just 330k inhabitants it has less than 2% of the Dutch population. I came here in order to capture it's wild nature and hoped to get a sight of the northern lights. I was successful of the first thing. the latter, not so much.

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On the right you see some of my
previous photos from Iceland.

Check them out here:
>Episode 1< and here: >Episode 2<
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Damn Iceland, you are beautiful. See you again soon.

The above pictures are shot by me, with a lot of different manual focus vintage lenses (varying from 24 to 300mm) on my Sony A7II

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"Emotions are there to be expressed, not to be suppressed and bottled up. I do photography in order to take my mind away from the dilemma's I encounter during my medical internships."

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