It’s closing in…

This was shot in the docks of Reykjavik in Iceland… some ropes for mooring the icebreakers and fishing boats.

BTW, regular blog readers may or may not know you can click on any picture to go to my Flickr site where you can get the ultra-large versions…

It was bitter cold at the harbor in Reykjavik. Burly Icelandic fishermen looked at me suspiciously as I walked around with my camera and ipod through the ice and carp skeletons to find some interesting things…

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I made it to Iceland… will be announcing www.webwars.com soon…

A slippery trip into work!

Actually Icelandic people are quite attractive… I don’t know why this eerie sculpture in Iceland makes them look so creepy creepy…

I’ll be heading back to Iceland soon, and maybe stopping off at a few fjords to find some of these wild-haired horses prancing about. This time, I’ll bring a pair of gloves!

I’m getting psyched for my next trip up to Iceland for the Eve Fan Fest, so I am posting this picture I have finally gotten to from Reykjavik. I heard there are over 1,000 people coming from all over the world for the event. I’ll be happy to represent the old guard of Taggart Transdimensional.

This was shot during the sunrise just after the lake in Reykjavik was frozen over.

Here once again are some of those furry horsical creatures that run free around the fjords of Iceland. These guys are surprisingly docile, although I did not try to ride one.

I came across this gem early one morning before work while exploring Iceland.

One morning before meetings, I woke up early to go down to the frozen lake in Reykjavik to watch the sunrise and drink coffee.

Hallgrimskirkja is just about the coolest church in the world. I’ve never seen this style of architecture before, but it’s very satisfying from a phi-golden-ratio-geometric standpoint for some reason. I can’t put my finger on it and I don’t know why such a simple geometric style has never really been attempted in any real way by other cultures around the world.

Icelandic people are very interesting, tough, and independent. I’ve found that their thought and creative circles are almost completely separated from the traditional Western Europe (+US-spawnee) and the Far East. This leads them to do things a bit different than the rest of the world and it was refreshing to talk to the locals and see how they approach everything from a design perspective. It’s got a lot of that Scandinavian clean elegance, but still very much its own.

This is a long shot of Gulfoss, which is one of the coldest and most slippery areas I’ve ever been in my life. One misstep and you are at the bottom of a Rube-Goldberg series of frozen waterfalls. I think the huge tripod actually helped me keep my balance!

The ice near the town square gave off an interesting purple glow during dusk. I think it was the warm colors from inside the buildings mixing with that strange blue light from the long winter dusk.

Here are a few whale hunters.