Let's do a summer sprint around Iceland I know this is rather last minute but that is what makes it an adventure. I came back from Iceland two weeks ago and I’m ready to go back. This time in the summer and I'm creating a six-day nearly non-stop photo shoot.
What I am thinking is to have a small group - five or six people total - rent a van and sprint around Iceland for six days. We’d go Thursday night July 19, arrive Friday morning and come back on Wednesday, July 25 in the late afternoon.
During my visit earlier this month I was hosting a workshop and we covered the south part of the island. There are lots of cool places I would go again, including Diamond Beach, where chunks of glacier float up on the black sand beach all year. I went two days early and did a thorough scouting of two peninsulas north and west of Reykjavik and went to many cool locations. I will take us to many places where we will make extraordinary photos the entire time we are there. We'll do a lot of driving, Iceland is bigger than you think and the great locations aren’t close together, it isn’t like shooting tall buildings in Manhattan. But I will put together an itinerary that optimizes our driving time and everybody except the driver can catch some naps. There won’t be much hiking but we may walk ¼ mile or more to some locations over rocky ground. In the summer we can’t do ice caves or see the aurora but we will see some marvelous waterfalls, amazing green landscapes, churches painted black, glaciers up close and spectacular ocean scenes.
One thing I learned in Iceland is that there are a lot of tourists and in summer there are even more. Shooting at some of the more famous places can be tough but the tourists tend to visit the sites mainly between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. In the middle of July the sun sets at 11:45 p.m. and rises 3:40 a.m., which is when we want to be at the waterfalls, to get the best light and fewest other people. Our sleep cycle will be all screwed up but I don’t go to on journeys to sleep. We can take naps during the day when the light is the worst.
So I am looking for an adventurous few who want to make some great photos. Hotels fill fast, even getting three rooms may be tough in some areas, so I need anyone interested to commit right away. I’m not going to secure hotels until I know I have at least four people going.
Iceland isn’t cheap but getting there is. A round trip flight on IcelandAir from Newark or JFK is $202 during that time. WOW airlines also has about the same prices from multiple airports. There may be an additional bag fee. Decent but not fancy hotels, rental vehicles and gas are expensive. So I can put all of this together for $2200 each if I have four people, $2000 each if we have five. It will have to be double occupancy. That price wouldn’t include the flight, you’re on your own for that and most meals but it would include ground transportation, hotels, great locations and hopefully breakfast each day since most hotels there provide it.
Most flights from the U.S. leave around 7:30 p.m. and arrive around 6 a.m. in Reykjavik, it is an overnight flight. We’d be out shooting sod roofed houses by 9 a.m. Friday morning and we’d be off on our great adventure. I hope you want to join me, it will be exciting.
I’m not setting this up as a workshop on my website, I'm only inviting people I have had contact with befoe. So drop me an email or call me if you want to go or have any questions. You won’t forget this trip.
Loren |
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