The pictures I didn't take (much)
Aug. 14th, 2009 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustTowards the end of our time in Iceland, I made a note of the photographs I wasn't taking; the sights which filled my days, but of which I didn't have many pictures (often because these were the views from the moving car, the landscape through which we travelled).
Top of the list was Route 1 itself. The backbone of our trip was the ring road which circles the whole of Iceland, and every now and then it appears in my photos, but the view which filled the windscreen (and features on the postcards), the classic wide angle shot, white line flanked successively by black carriageway, yellow marker posts and white cotton grass in the ditch on either side - well, there wasn't that much traffic on the road, but too much for me to attempt that one.
Then there were the farms. At the margin where the flat land of the coast (or, later, of the long valleys, with the river meandering across the valley floor) rose abruptly, brightly painted farms, and the occasional church, nestled against the broad green sweep of the fells.
But it seems I was wrong to think I hadn't any photos of this, for here is Þorvaldseyri, purely by chance a particularly enterprising farm, where they are succeeding in growing wheat.
I also listed as absent from my photos the dramatic clouds - which, looking again, is not entirely the case, although they aren't always represented in the pictures I choose to show the world (a dark sky doesn't always make for easy photography). But my note describes a scene of black cloud, with bright light falling from it onto the straw bales (wrapped in white plastic) in an acid green field; and, a little later, a bright green hayfield running down to a steel grey fjord under dark clouds, and, right at the water's edge, a red tractor. I wish I could have photographed that.
Top of the list was Route 1 itself. The backbone of our trip was the ring road which circles the whole of Iceland, and every now and then it appears in my photos, but the view which filled the windscreen (and features on the postcards), the classic wide angle shot, white line flanked successively by black carriageway, yellow marker posts and white cotton grass in the ditch on either side - well, there wasn't that much traffic on the road, but too much for me to attempt that one.
Then there were the farms. At the margin where the flat land of the coast (or, later, of the long valleys, with the river meandering across the valley floor) rose abruptly, brightly painted farms, and the occasional church, nestled against the broad green sweep of the fells.
But it seems I was wrong to think I hadn't any photos of this, for here is Þorvaldseyri, purely by chance a particularly enterprising farm, where they are succeeding in growing wheat.
I also listed as absent from my photos the dramatic clouds - which, looking again, is not entirely the case, although they aren't always represented in the pictures I choose to show the world (a dark sky doesn't always make for easy photography). But my note describes a scene of black cloud, with bright light falling from it onto the straw bales (wrapped in white plastic) in an acid green field; and, a little later, a bright green hayfield running down to a steel grey fjord under dark clouds, and, right at the water's edge, a red tractor. I wish I could have photographed that.
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Date: 2009-08-14 10:27 pm (UTC)I don't know. I liked reading it.
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Date: 2009-08-15 04:14 am (UTC)