Taking a break

Due to school commitments I am taking a short break from photoblogging until April. Until then, here are some galleries of Iceland photos to keep you happy:

• Ragnar Axelsson
• Harri Eliasson
• Daniel Bergmann
• Arctic Photo

If you like quirky photography, try this blog.The owner is Icelandic and the photos are (mostly) taken and processed by her, with a few of mine thrown in.

A black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) glides slowly over the Pond in Reykjavík.

Red

Fantastic blog

So why am I reposting one of my India photos? Well, I wanted to illustrate this entry with something, and what more suitable than a photo of a Delhi street market when the subject concerns that city?

For the last several weeks I have been following a really fantastic photoblog: 52 suburbs around the world. Blogger Louise Hawson originally set out to explore the suburbs of her home city of Sidney, Australia, and now she is taking one year to explore suburbs around the world. Today she posted the last of her Indian suburb stories and is heading to Istanbul.

Her photographs are really good and imaginatively presented, and unlike me she clearly has no problem approaching people to ask to take their photos. The outcome is a very interesting blog, full of good photographs that will give you a little bit of insight into the lives of suburbanites in several very different cities. Go visit it, especially if you like travelling and good photography.

Frost cracks

Here surface ice has fallen and cracked when the surface of the water beneath subsided:

Hoarfrost on yarrow, part IV

Hoarfrost on yarrow, part III

Hoarfrost on yarrow, part II

Hoarfrost on yarrow, part I

Showing its age

Corrugated iron became a very popular covering for houses in Iceland soon after importing of it started in the late 19th century. While its popularity has waned with the advent of newer types of cladding, it is still the covering of choice for roofs. You can still see many older houses (and new outbuildings and sheds) that are clad in it.

This old house is typical of 1930's and 40's building styles and stands in Hverfisgata in the centre of Reykjavík. When the photo was taken it was sorely in need of painting (still may be - I haven't been in that part of the street in ages).

Wild clouds

Taken just after coming out of the north end of the Whale Fjord tunnel: