Iceland Photo Guide

Name: Iceland Photo Guide
Address: Reykjavík, 104, IS
Telephone: +354 822 7601
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Iceland Photo Guide Custom Made Photographic Adventures. Make your dream photo trip come true in amazing Iceland. I was brought up with photography all around me.

My name is Christopher Lund and I was born 1973 in Reykjavík, Iceland. My father took me on countless trips around Iceland when I was a kid. We travelled to every little town and village in Iceland. We even flew over most of them in his small Cessna to photograph from the air. I usually sat in the back, loading fresh rolls of Kodak VHC in the Pentax 6×7 bodies as fast as I could. Ever since I can

remember, I have loved to travel and discover new places. Our country is so diverse and never fails to amaze me. Short or long trips, every time I see something new to photograph. I studied photography mainly through working with my dad. He is in fact Norwegian, immigrated to Iceland in 1963 with my mother who is Icelandic. As a young man, he was obsessed with Iceland and hung out with Icelandic students at the University of Oslo, where he eventually met my mother. I consider my father to be an Icelander, not many Icelanders know the country as well as he does. He is also quite well known around Iceland, since almost everyone has had a visit from him, selling one of his aerial obliques! In 1993, I graduated from college (majoring in Natural Sciences) and moved to Trondheim, Norway, where I worked as a photographer and a lab technician at the company Melhuus A/S (now Fame photographers). Between 1994 and 1998, I continued to work and study photography with my father in Iceland and was in charge of both analog and digital processing in his company. Between 1998 and 1999, I moved to Viborg in Denmark to study photography at Medieskolerne. While there, I also worked for Grundfos a/s as a photographer, as well as managing my own prepress company, which I named Pixel Production (I thought it was quite smart). I moved back to Iceland just before Christmas 1999. Throughout 2000-2001 I was the manager of The Icelandic Image Library. A small division with a big name, in a doomed Internet bubble company that didn’t even survive a year. In 2001, I founded a company called Dikta (professional digital photo lab) which I ran for a couple of years, until I got totally fed up with the lab business and went 100% freelance as a photographer. At that time, I felt that it was time to become independent so I could spend more time doing my own photography projects. I have never looked back and couldn’t be happier. Since then I have done all sorts of photography; weddings, portraits, architecture, product and industrial photography to name a few. In a small market like Iceland one really needs to be multi-skilled. I also do Fine Art printing for artists and galleries with large format Epson and prepress work for publishing companies. I have gradually shifted my focus more and more into traveling and nature photography – since this is where my passion lies. In 2009 I decided to become a certified guide and entered the Certified Guide Course in the Continuing Education department of the University of Iceland. And now I enjoy doing what I love most – photography and traveling.

28/02/2025

In May 2010, my friend Árni and I spent a couple of days shooting the volcano and the affected area of Eyjafjöll and Vík í Mýrdal. During those particular days ash-fall in Vík was pretty bad so when we arrived there almost everyone had left the town and all stores were closed. It was eerily apocalyptic.

Here are a few selected images.

21/02/2025

Svínafellsjökull outlet glacier a couple of weeks ago.

First image is a square crop from the file. Swipe -> for the xPan image. Shot with the X2D and XCD 25V lens.

10/02/2025

Stokksnes beach and Mt Vestrahorn earlier this week.
Shot with Mavic 3 Pro.

06/02/2025

Impressed with the sharpness from the XCD 90V lens in the low light at Víkurfjara beach a couple of days ago. I was shooting wide open at f/2.5 to get the shutter speed I needed for the waves.

Swipe -> for more detail 😉

04/02/2025

This (cold) morning at Víkurfjara Black Sand Beach.

Shot on the X2D using the square crop, with the XCD 25V lens. Exposure was 0.6s at f/11 ISO 64.

03/02/2025

Kvernufoss waterfall earlier today.

Got to love the level of detail in tones and the resolution of the X2D files. Shot with the XCD 55V, exposure was 1/250s at f/8 ISO 400.

07/11/2024

Sunrise at Green River Overlook.

09/10/2024

Ilolla in early morning fog.

On our way home today. Already missing this amazing place 🥰

20/09/2024

Rain showers and god rays over glacier river Krossá, South Iceland.

16/09/2024

Autumn flow at Hraunfossar.

15/09/2024

Autumn flow.

04/09/2024

Hvalnes and Mt Eystrahorn last night, about 30 minutes before sunset.

03/09/2024

Skútafoss waterfall earlier today.

08/08/2024

Moody conditions at Þvottárskriður, Southeast Iceland. Shot last July, guiding a great group of photographers for .

27/07/2024

These Craters north of Hnausapollur looked their best in the late afternoon light last week.

Make sure to swipe to view more details 😉

14/07/2024

Gagnheiði mountain road is pretty epic 😍

21/05/2024

So proud to have been part of this, capturing footage of Iceland for the game, and meeting all the great people from Ninja Theory. The level of passion from all that have been involved has been incredible to witness. Congrats everyone!

An acclaimed video game series returns to shine a light on a misunderstood mental health condition.

20/05/2024

Það var falleg birtan rétt eftir sólsetur kl 23:00.
The light was pretty tonight just after sunset at 11:00 PM.

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A calm morning in Mjóifjörður, East fiords of Iceland. #iceland #bestplace #wanderlust #dji #calmness #naturelovers

So stoked to be finally able to travel to the US to meet my dear friend Richie. #traveladdict #cloudscape #shotoniphone

Probably the most relaxing week of my life was sailing around in Scoresbysund last year. Hope I will get the chance to go there again someday ❤️ #greenland #scarpa #sailing #wanderlust #traveladdict

First day of a Highland and South Iceland Photo Tour. Guiding a great group for @iceland_photo_tours for the next eight days. #iceland #highlands #travelphotography #ig_iceland #fordeconoline #modifiedcars #wanderlust

From a recent drone assignment on Fjallsárlón Glacial Lagoon

Malarrif waves

Strong waves at Malarrif today!

It was a bit windy tonight at the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. (Shot with the built in TimeLapse feature of the Nikon D810)

A short time lapse from the Auroras we saw last night at lake Mývatn (best viewed in HD)