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Siglufjörður

Sometimes you don't have to go far for a photo, I shot this within one hundred meters from my office this morning.

Yesterday I met very nice artists from Spain that have been staying here recently when they relaxed in the sun on their last day in Iceland. Lois Pation is a filmmaker who makes very interesting videos and Carla Fernández Andrade is a photographer who takes wonderful landscape photos on her old Pentax 35 mm film camera.

Full story; cowbird.com/author/bjorn-valdimarsson/stories/#!/26347

Winter photo from lighthouse Sauðanesviti outside Siglufjörður.

High and steep mountains on three sides and the North Atlantic Ocean on one side surround Siglufjörður. The first road to this isolated village over the mountain pass Siglufjarðarskarð (630 meters above sea level), was opened in 1946. It was replaced by a new road and tunnel in 1967 and since than better roads and new tunnels have vastly improved communications and infrastructure in this rugged area.