Solfar (SunCraft) by Jon Gunnar Arnason

    Sólfar: The Sun Voyager -- My blog posting about this photograph, the sculpture and the Flickr group devoted to it

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    1. Noinnebcd (82 months ago | reply)

      That is a great photo.

    2. Elizabeth Thomsen (82 months ago | reply)

      Thanks! It's easy to take great photos in Iceland. I used this one for the Reykjavik article in Wikipedia.

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      datenmull added this photo to their favorites. (79 months ago)

    4. datenmull (79 months ago | reply)

      AHHH - finally. I`ve already a miserable grainy newspaper-scan of this amazing sculpture, and now, finally, a good one!
      thanks for posting!

    5. Jeremy Charles Photography (78 months ago | reply)

      my friend travelled to iceland 2 years ago and captured this same sculpture. very cool.

    6. Loon Man (74 months ago | reply)

      hmm, for tenuous links, I'm sorry we've never bought forks from Ikea.

    7. Elizabeth Thomsen (74 months ago | reply)

      I'll admit that it does evoke forks from Ikea as much as the Viking ships it's intended to memorialize! It looks very forky in some photos, like Forks in the Sky.

      Mostly people compare it to various long-legged bugs, however!

      I run a Flick group called Sólfar devoted to this sculpture. It's interesting to see how many different ways people find to photograph this interesting, odd piece.

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      Charissa May Borroff added this photo to their favorites. (74 months ago)

    9. publicheart (44 months ago | reply)

      I blogged some solfar pix for www.publicheart.wordpress.com (a photoblog that supports public art) from your flickr group. Wow! Amazing shots! Alas i can only choose 3 but i will link your group to the post! May I quote you as well? Thanks!

    10. Elizabeth Thomsen (43 months ago | reply)

      @publicheart -- That's great, thanks for letting me know and for linking to the group. The blog was new to me, it looks great, and I want to explore it further!

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      Rich Flynn added this photo to his favorites. (8 months ago)

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