Iceland Trip Recap April 2023

Sep 7

In early April of this year I took my oldest son to Iceland with me. The goal of the trip was two-fold. First, to continue working on my series “A Changeable Sea” documenting the landscapes around the North Atlantic and second, to give my son his first adventure abroad. When I’m traveling on my photo trips I usually go solo and go at a pretty breakneck speed. Up early, out late, and usually driving long distances in between. So for this trip I needed to mix in a little more relaxation to make it more fun for him. Not to mention the late winter weather in Iceland can be pretty brutal.

Originally I had planned to work our way to Hofn and back along the south coast of Iceland, however, a large storm was anticipated to move along the south coast so at the last minute I rerouted us to drive northwest to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula for the first few days before driving to Vik on the south coast.

This was my fifth trip to Iceland and second within a span of 6 months and as such I’ve come to feel that its part of a chapter closing in my travels for this series. More recently the work I’ve created for “A Changeable Sea” has primarily focused on Iceland and while I will likely go back at some point down the road, in the near-term I feel that I need to round the series out with different locations.

Snæfellsnes Peninsula. This was a location I found on my previous trip to the area in November 2022. I’m excited to see the difference of the same shot with different conditions. Unfortunately the lens malfunctioned just as I was setting up this shot, but I managed to make one or two frames work.

Images above and below from the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. There is a brutality to Iceland’s landscape, especially in the wintertime. Below my son is inspecting whale bones washed up on the shore.