Arnar Páll's photostream

This is me in Sandártunga, Þjórsárdalur at 1:07 am shot just with avalable light on one of the brightest nights of the year. I was camping with my best friend and our girlfriends. Probably I was a bit drunk at the moment.

Hvítá, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, IS

Took this photo from a bridge over the river. The river is a glacier river coming from the mountains in the background. The mountains are from left, Mt. Strútur, Mt. Eiríksjökull and Mt. Hafrafell witch is in front of the big glacier Langjökull.

Location: N64°41'02'' W20°43'56''
Kaldidalur, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, IS

Geitá river is a river flowing from the glaciers Langjökull and Þórisjökull down to Borgarfjörður valley joining few other rivers into Hvítá river.

There is a bit of a story behind this photo. While I was in the river desperately waiting for a better light (it didn't come) my girlfriend was in the car playing games on my iPad and listening to the radio. Finally when my patience ran out I got back to the car, eager to get down to camp and have a nice barbecue. But my car had different plans. It didn't start. The radio had used to much of the energy. At midnight in the middle of nowhere the battery was dead. Traffic wasn't expected until next day. But I didn't panic of course. It is a manual car and it is not hard to do a push start. Especially with about 300m of potential energy on your hand because of the incline road. There was just one problem. The car was facing uphill and it is not possible to jump start a car in reverse. Yes i tried. So we had to turn the car around on a road barely wide enough for two cars to meet. One wheel of the road and I would have to call the rescue team. Luckily I found a nice turn in the road where it was possible to turn the car a round and with a considerable pushing power we managed to turn it around. The rest was easy and we finally enjoyed our barbecue and couple of beers camp.

Location: N64°41'39'' W20°45'16''
Kaldidalur, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, IS

I usually don't use shallow dof in my landscape photography but here it felt right. It puts the attention on the small sand grass cone in the foreground.

I have been working a lot lately on my Keyword List. Makes key-wording each image hell of a lot easier. With few clicks I can add over a hundred keyword to my images that all fit but that seems to be a problem for flick because they only allow a maximum of 75 tags per photo. Maybe I should cut back a little bit on my use of synonyms.