Pyramid Mountain - Kirkjufell at Snæfellsnes, Iceland

Pyramid Mountain - Kirkjufell at Snæfellsnes, Iceland a photo by orvaratli on Flickr.

From our 2nd last day of the 12 day winter tour around Iceland.

We waited one full day in bad weather to be able to photograph this mountain. The aim was to shoot the close by waterfall with the mountain in the background but it turned out that the fjord with the still weather gave much more interesting view of it. The waiting in snowfall for 24 hours also added a thick fresh layer of snow over everything making the scene much more interesting than without it. It is not often that snow falls evenly over everything here in Iceland. Usually it is blown into large piles complimented with large snow free areas.

I have never had a photographic equipment failure in my 4,5 years of photography. I have lost some lenscaps and a filter but never had any electronic or glass fail me. Until this trip. It seemed to have accumulated to hit me hard this trip. My body count is as follows:

Canon 30D Destroyed - Camera and tripod fell to the ground
Canon 70-200mm f4 broken - Unknown causes
Canon 17-85mm broken badly - Fell to the ground on a camera and tripod
Canon 60D stopped working (brand new) - Stopped working for unknown reasons.
Remote trigger broken - Caple torn.

First massive kudos to Nýherji/Sense for flying out to us a new Canon 60D the same day as we called them and reported it broken. Thats what I call good service.
I hope now I will experience another 4,5 years free of equipment failure.

20.1.2011: Thanks alot everybody for the wonderful comments. I was pleasantly surprised how well it got received. I was not expecting this.

IQ 2 ½

IQ 2 ½ a photo by red R on Flickr.

Explored: #1 on Saturday, January 25, 2011

chillin' on the cliff

chillin' on the cliff a photo by p.folk { off } on Flickr.

much better on black

[ENG] I don't have much time for photography and flickr these days... This one is the only picture I could take during the past two weeks. It isn't very original, to say the least! I'm not really ok with it... I just liked how bright this full moon night was. This startrail is made out of 34 "30 seconds" shots (so 17 minutes total) for lack of any additionnal time. This is the West direction.

[FR] Titre : Détente sur la falaise. Je n'ai pas beaucoup de temps pour la photo et flickr en ce moment... Celle-ci est la seule que j'ai pu prendre pendant ces 15 dernier jours. Et le moins qu'on puisse dire c'est qu'elle manque cruellement d'originalité ! Elle ne me satisfait pas plus que ça... J'ai simplement aimé à quel point cette nuit de pleine lune était claire. Il s'agit d'un startrail composé de 34 images de 30 secondes (soit 17 minutes au total), faute de plus de temps. La direction est Ouest.

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strike while the iron is hot

strike while the iron is hot a photo by DM 909 on Flickr.

taken for ourdailychallenge (topic: work)

I had fun doing this :)

Untitled

a photo by massimo sbreni on Flickr.