Some things I can’t see or understand. Not even with my FUJI camera.
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Prime Minister of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir travels to Canada today. She will travel around Canada and the US until Monday and participate in the Icelandic Festivals held by the Icelandic communities in both countries.
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Click on the picture to watch this audio slideshow about bird watching at Óshólmar, an area at the mouth of Eyjafjardará river just outside Akureyri in north Iceland, the largest Icelandic town outside the capital region. Not many tourists know about this attraction, which is perfect for a walk in the sun.
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Located just 40 minutes by car and six minutes from Keflavík International Airport, Sandgerdi (“Sandy Hedge”) is a growing town of 1,700 with a storied history and loads to see. Read this special promotion about the hidden secrets of one of Iceland's most charming seaside villages.
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A new photographic exhibition with six accomplished artists, one American and five Icelanders, opens at the Lost Horse Gallery in Reykjavík tonight. Participating artists are Björn Árnason, Fridrik Örn, Gudmundur Óli Pálmason, Gudmundur Rúnar Gudmundsson, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson and American Julia Staples.
By Julia Staples.
Árnason takes carefully composed photographs of the details around our world in Reykjavík. He has a very minimal aesthetic and because of this, his photographs are marked by a rather painterly quality.
Pálmason will be showing portraits from Iceland. His photographs have been described as stills from a rediscovered black-and-white movie, maintaining an eerie element of melancholy.
By Ingvar H. Ragnarsson.
Gudmundsson is an accomplished editorial photographer. He shoots details of the landscape in black and white and juxtaposes it against a color image of the same photograph.
Ragnarsson is a visual artist and photographer. He will be exhibiting a selection from a series called “Waiting,” which deals with the city’s planning and development in Reykjavík and surrounding suburbs.
Staples is from New York. She lives permanently in Iceland and is currently sponsored by the American Scandinavian Foundation to work on a project about the growth of the suburbs around Reykjavík. Her photographs are presented in series, focusing on details from the proliferation of newly built luxury housing.
The show runs through September 29.
The second issue of the print edition of Iceland Review 2010 has just been published. Entitled “Under the Volcano” the magazine dedicates 20 pages, words and pictures, to the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull glacier which made headlines all over the word. New subscribers will receive the book Puffins as a gift and all subscribers are part of a draw to win a trip to Iceland. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Hendrikka Waage is an accomplished jewellery designer whose first children’s book Rikka and Her Magic Ring in Iceland, takes readers on an enchanted and educational journey through the country. It’s beautifully illustrated and a good lesson in geography, but the plot could have been better thought through and the moral of the story is a bit too prominent.
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On the third day of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption we drove from Skógar to Hvolsvöllur in total darkness, a distance of 18 kilometers. It was frightening, the darkness being so impenetrable that we could hardly see out the windows of the car. We could see faint lights from the farm standing right next to the highway.
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Ásmundur Sveinsson is among the foremost Icelandic sculptors. The current exhibition in the Ásmundur Sveinsson Museum in Reykjavík is entitled “I choose women who thrive…” and features women as symbols in the sculptor’s art. The works in the exhibition are selected from his entire career.
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