Breaking the Rules, Iceland 2014

I’m back to editing the many many images shot during my recent trip to Iceland and strangely enough, the image below is one of my favourites – crossing all the boundaries of camera correctness – where lens hoods, ND filters and all manner of techie geekedness is supposed to be applied to prevent the dreaded LENS FLARE!….

However, I LOVE the serendipity of what happened in camera … one sun obviously… but the lens made two…. (NO PHOTOSHOPPERY I PROMISE!) … and terrific reflections (if a tad blown out) across the water.. and that awesome amber flare around it all.

So no, not technically correct and my cohorts at the time kind of wiggled their eyebrows as if to say… what the heck are you doing…. but sometimes you gotta just go with it and take the picture that suits you!

And FYI…. I was up at 4:30am to get this shot at Jökulsárlón – Sunrise taken looking towards the sea behind the Glacier Lake.  I think I was the only one in my group who actually looked in the less than obvious direction! Ha!