Iceland Photo Guide

Name: Iceland Photo Guide
Address: Reykjavík, 104, IS
Telephone: +354 822 7601
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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.

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.

07/03/2024

What are they all looking at?

I snapped this image the other day at Fjallsárlón Glacial Lagoon which was frozen over. Ice is such a wonderful thing.

06/03/2024

Stormy Snæfellsnes.

The view over Svalþúfubjarg Bird Cliff, Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Lóndrangar Rock Pinnacles seen in background. The Kittiwakes have already arrived, flying and screaming their distinctive call.

05/03/2024

Before FPV drone capture we just did FPV flying with actual airplanes 😆

This image from 2010 of a small plane flying over the volcanic eruption at Fimmvörðuháls is kinda crazy isn’t it?

(Taken with a 185mm focal length it does make it look closer than it actually is 😉)

28/02/2024

From a visit to Hvalnes Peninsula today. Mount Eystrahorn towering above.

22/02/2024

Loving the crop modes on my X2D. Here is an image from today’s adventure at Hvítserkur sea stack. Shot with the XCD 38V lens and using a 10 stop ND to get a three minute exposure (why do other cameras need a cable release for anythibg longer than 30 sec?).

Just five minutes after I made this photograph the wind really picked up and it started snowing. The journey back was interesting to say the least, with proper whiteout conditions on the roads😝

Make sure to swipe -> to see better details from this Xpan crop.

06/02/2024

A cold winter morning by Streitishvarf. Súlur mountains in background. East Iceland.

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