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The Church of Akureyri, Iceland

Akureyrarkirkja

Half way through our 14 day road trip around Iceland, we made our way to Akureyri, the second largest urban area in the north of Iceland. Akureyri is a harbour-side city and is an important port and fishing centre in Iceland. The Church of Akureyri or Akureyrarkirkja is one of the famous icons in the city. The prominent Lutheran church is located at the centre of the city, towering above the city on a hill. Unfortunately we didn’t get to go into the church to check out the interior. It was the perfect sunny autumn morning to walk around the city before heading to our next stop.

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HDR of Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

As I mentioned on the last blog post, we pretty much had Aldeyjarfoss all to ourselves. Two of us photographers stuck to photographing from the top of the falls while the other two daredevils climbed down to the bottom of the falls. I experimented with taking a few different exposures and merging them in Aurora HDR. The colours of the photos came out pretty well. All the photos posted in this post were processed in Aurora HDR, I had a lot of fun experimenting with it.

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Godafoss and Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

Aldeyjarfoss waterfall in Iceland was one of my favourite waterfalls we visited. It was a bit out of the way, at the edge of the Icelandic highlands. It also required us to cross a F road to get there. F roads generally considered more challenging to drive on and require a 4×4 rental car which thankfully we had. This meant we almost had the whole place to ourselves. The only other people there were a small group of photographers on a photo tour. We knew we were in good company if photo tours take photographers there!

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Sights around Lake Myvatn, Iceland, Part II

Continuing on with my journey around Lake Myvatn. Part I can be found here. Dimmuborgir is a lava field in Myvatn in Iceland. There are several hiking routes through Dimmuborgir ranging from 10 minutes to 1 hour. The hikes are easy and mostly well paved. We did the 1 hour walk which took us to the rock formation called The Church. We saw lots of people posing in the hole in the rock formation.

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Shooting for Reflections – A Fuji X Aus Competition

Perth, City of Lights, after sunset

The last Fuji X Aus group competition challenge brief was reflections. We had 2 weeks to shoot and submit a photo. The grand prize was the NiSi Filters 100mm Starter Kit. An amazing prize to die for! I wasn’t a hundred percent happy with the shot I submitted, but given the time constraints I had and the stormy Perth weather, I really went out for a couple of hours one afternoon when the weather wasn’t too bad to do some creative shooting. Most of my favourite photos I shot from that session was shared on a previous blog post. However in this blog posts I wanted to share the shots that I tried to take that fit in with the “reflections” theme.

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