Yellow lighthouses at the mouth of Reykjavik Harbour in Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/11 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 21mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/250s |
I was there too
Yellow lighthouses at the mouth of Reykjavik Harbour in Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/11 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 21mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Sticker on the back of a street sign in Reykjavik, Iceland
Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/125s |
Very recently we spent almost 2 weeks in the Spanish town of El Puerto de Santa María. We stayed in a friend’s apartment and it was a really nice break away from the bad news and rush of life back in Ireland. Unfortunately we brought the rain with us but that didn’t dampen our spirits!
One of our meals out was in El Rincon del Chirri SL where they specialise in seafood. This was only one of the dishes served and while I’m not usually one to eat seafood I was glad I tried it here. We also had what I think were Sea anemones in a crispy bread covering but they tasted like seawater and I only had 1 or 2! Our Spanish friends described them as eating sea water which was a very apt description!
Oh yes, this image 800 pixels wide, slightly larger than the photos I used to post. View the post itself to view the larger version as I think this theme shrinks the image on the main page. Like the new size?
Aperture | ƒ/4.5 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 500 |
Shutter speed | 1/30s |
A detail from the Opera House, Reykjavik.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
A small corner house in Reykjavik, Iceland. Love the colours.
There was a music lesson going full swing when I passed there. I think they were beating drums.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 48mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Drekinn, a shop in Reykjavik, Iceland. Drekinn means dragon in English.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
A doorway in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/80s |
Jovial graffiti in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 59mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A sign warns of bumps ahead in the road. Pretty large bumps in the distance too.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 125mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/5000s |
This is a metal statue in Reykjavík of what looks like a Viking longboat but according to the Wikipedia page is in fact a “dreamboat”.
It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the sagas. Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this was not the original intention.
Jón Gunnar was himself very ill with leukaemia at the time that the full-scale Sun Voyager came to be constructed, and he died in April 1989, a year before it was placed in its present location. Some people have thus suggested that Jón Gunnar conceived the work during this period, at a time when he might have been preoccupied with death, and argued that Sun Voyager should be seen as a vessel that transports souls to the realm of death. While this is a nice idea and might be imagined to have some validity, it actually has little truth (at least from the point of view of the artist). As noted above, Sun Voyager was essentially envisaged as being a dreamboat, an ode to the sun symbolizing light and hope.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/2500s |
A statue of Leif Ericsson stands in front of the Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
The Star of David, Dollar signs, the Masonic eye, Christian Cross and a symbol I (and Google Goggles) don’t recognise. All on a sticker in the Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland. In the church tower there’s a door leading from the observation area into the warmth inside. This sticker is over that door.
Stranger yet are the pawns on the half-circle of the world, with a cross and four dots.
It’s either some kids having fun trolling the local Church, or an elaborate conspiracy. Tin foil hat time!
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 33mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/15s |