Neil Corman Photography

On a rainy day I explored along the waterfront in Reykjavik spending some time photographing the Sun Voyager sculpture. On this day it was a little less crowded which allowed me to get closer and spend more time at the sculpture. As I started to looking back towards the city I noticed how Hallgrímskirkja was visible up the hill. Once I noticed this I spent time photographing the two of them together which with the rain allowed me to focus on the rain drops on the Sun Voyager as the church fell slightly out of focus in the distance.

Prints: Through the Sun Voyager

The times I have stood in front of Harpa it never is the same. As the environmental elements change so does the appearance of the building where if you were to take this same image over multiple days you would get a differing result. For a while I stood in this location and watched it change as the sun went behind the clouds on this early September day. With Reykjavik also being so far north the position of the sun changes drastically over the course of the year as well which also provides differing directions of shadows from the light.

Prints: The Front of Harpa

The Sun Voyager sculpture sits along the water in Reykjavik, Iceland. The sculpture by sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason is described as an ode to the sun. Playing off of this name when I found myself there on an early morning I decided to bring the sun into the photograph. Finding a nice composition was the task at hand which I could then position myself to include the sun into the scene as well. By using a small depth of field (f/22) and placing the sun right at the end of the sculpture it provides the star effect in the image and also helps eliminate some of the sun glare.

Prints: Sun Voyager Sculpture Sunlight

Sitting above the majority of the village of Vik is their church. Vik is the southernmost point in Iceland and is located just over a hundred miles from Reykjavik. As the church is on a hill, it is the safe location to go to if there is an eruption of Kalta. This volcano sits below a glacier which would melt and generate flooding in a short period of time along the coast. From the black sand beach I found this image of the church against the higher mountains of the area.

Prints: Church in Vik

While photographing from the beach in Vik, some stacks from the sea caught my eye. From my position the sun was behind the stacks thus I opted to get creative with my image. I found a spot which showed the stacks well and let them go to shadow as I also zoomed out a little to capture a large portion of sky. What this did is let the stacks position themselves into the right bottom of the frame and give plenty of negative or open space in the image allowing a minimal composition.

Prints: Iceland Sea Stacks

The patterns of Harpa in Reykjavik are quite interesting. With the layers of glass just moving a little will give you a different perspective of the building with the varying lines. As I moved around the building I looked at the different compositions with not only the materials of the building but also how the light hit the building during the course of the day. In this image I was working on the repeating lines and patterns which exist on the building and stacking them upon each other.

Prints: Patterns of Harpa