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In October, I got a proposal for a Photo Workshop in Paris over New Year’s and my gosh, I wanted to do it. Capturing Paris when it isn’t crowded with tourists would be so cool. A special New Year’s dinner all organized. Put together by a well known and excellent Street...
I recently read Pico Iyer’s book “Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells.” The well known and respected travel writer and avid ping pong player wrote, “….. every time I come back from a trip, everything seems much the same. I’m carrying the call to prayer above the flickering lights of...
“Driving through Iceland is like driving through the pages of a geography book.” This was a comment made by the Photographer/teacher of the Wild Photography Holiday trip I went on in this stunningly beautiful and isolated island between Greenland and Europe. Note: This was...
by Judy Bereza, Guest Blogger The name is self descriptive. Iceland. Land of ice and snow, Northern Lights, glaciers and persistent gloom for most of the year. The name is a perfect cliche, a stereotype of expectations. When we visited Iceland, armed with our assumptions, we were eager to...
The Golden Circle is a “must-do” for anyone going to Iceland. It’s an hour out of Reykjavik and a nice balance for those pub crawls that most people indulge in when they visit this cold and lively city on a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. So, what is it? The Golden […]
Reykjavik, Iceland “It’s tiny, the weather usually sucks and not one single tree grows here, but it’s got the best clubs, bars and nightlife anywhere that I’ve found. The city is full of hipster types, but unlike the hipsters found in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in Europe, they...
Scrolling through Facebook recently, I came across a link to a post titled Ten Best Cities in the World to Visit. Of course, I clicked to see what urban centers the author highlighted and how many I had hung out in. Oh my, Reykjavik was right up there with Paris and San Francisco and other...
The two vans pulled up in front of a stunning black beach, huge rocks visible in the distance. Known as the “stacks’ in Iceland, they were plunked there centuries ago by a volcano and carved by a retreating glacier. The landscape in Iceland, a small very “new” land in terms of world history, is...