How to shoot night scenes without a tripod
We’ve all been there. Wandering around a city at night, and we come across a great composition. Unfortunately, although you’ve still got your camera with you, the tripod is still sitting in your hotel room as you weren’t planning on any serious shooting. You turn on the camera and set…
Print shop
If you like any of the pictures here, a selection are available for purchase, along with some others taken outside of the six-week trip.
Accommodation round-up
I thought it might be handy to list the various places I stayed (in case anyone is interested, and also as a reminder to myself in case I go back to any of them!) Stockholm I stayed in two different places in Stockholm. The first part of the trip, I…
Day Thirty-nine – last day in Helsinki
I had some time to kill in the morning, so I walked around to the Olympic Stadium. It was the primary stadium for the 1952 Olympics, and although still in use today, it was looking its age… Apparently it’s closing down before the end of the year for refurbishment, not…
Day Thirty-eight – Suomenlinna Island
Most of today I spent at Suomenlinna – a handful of islands a 15 minute boat-ride away that were a coastal fortress. Originally built by the Swedish in 1748 it was occupied by the Russians, and was handed over to the city in 1973. There’s still a naval academy on one…
Day Thirty-seven – Wandering around Helsinki
For the final part of my travels, I’m back in a city- Helsinki. Coming here was a last minute choice (I also considered Svalbard but the sun doesn’t really come up there at this time of year!) I arrived yesterday. Landing late in the afternoon I found the new (only…
Day Thirty-three – South coast revisited, northern lights.
Today we took a coach trip out along the south coast for Georgie to see a few of the sights. It was revisiting some locations for me, but as the weather was different it was still fun. Our first stop was Skogafoss waterfall again. This time I climbed the stairs…
Day Thirty-two – Reykjavik
The day began early as I needed to return my hire car back at the airport. My little Kia has done a great job over the past week or so, and I’d definitely use Blue Car Rental again. I’d recommend a 4WD here, even if you’re not planning on F-roads,…
Day Thirty-one – Reykjanes peninsula
I opened the curtains to a nice red sunrise this morning. Although by the end of the day, the old saying that a red sky in the morning isn’t such a good thing came true. The rain held off until around 5pm though, so not all bad. I left the…
Day Thirty – heading back west
Day 30 has been pretty quiet. For the most part I’ve been driving along the main road back towards Reykjavik. Soon into the journey I passed a couple of nice glacier tongues coming down from Vatnajokull: I continued along, and the weather was worsening after the decent couple of days…
Day Twenty-Nine – Jökulsárlón. Ice, marching sheep, glaciers and aurora
Today I continued heading east. The first stop on the route was a gorge, called Fjaðrárgljúfur. It’s located just a mile or so off the ring road so was easy to find. A path leads you along the top of one side, and looking back from the end makes for an…
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