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This is just a quick update on my trip to Iceland. As expected the Icelandic weather has been as unpredictable as ever. Upon landing in Iceland Saturday morning I was greeting with freshly fallen snow. Although this pushed my arrival time back a bit it wasn't that big of an issue as the jeep rental didn't open until 9am anyway. From the bus terminal in Reykjavik it should have been a quick 5 minute taxi ride to pick up the jeep, but this is when things started to fall apart. It seems that the address for the rental company did not match the map on their website causing the driver to cruise up and down the blocks for about an hour trying to fi

This is the second part of a series walking through my entire process for shooting a (hopefully) great landscape photo. In the first part I covered the early part of the planning process for a trip to Iceland, in this post I'll be covering what I'll be bringing with me and how it all managed to get packed. Before setting off on packing I always make it a point to check the airline's luggage policy as this can change at any time. For Icelandair the allowed baggage policy is fairly good, 2 checked bags up to 50 lbs each, a carry on bag up to 22 lbs and a small personal item. While this seems like a lot, it's surprising how quickly things add u

This is the first post in a multi-part series that I will be posting over the next several weeks and will walk through my entire process for a landscape photo from beginning to end. Before we get started it's worth noting that a lot of what this series will contain is what works for me and may not necessarily work for you. The absolute first step for any photo is deciding what or where to shoot. Recently I found out that I had to take a trip to the UK in late January for non-photography reasons, so I decided why not bookend the trip with a side excursion to capture some great photos. Given that I need to fly into London Heathrow on the Janua