One of Iceland's well-known locations is the ice floe lake of Jokulsarlon. After the glacier makes a journey over land, it crumbles and the water takes these jagged pieces of ice out to sea.
During our holiday, we sailed across the ice floe lake in an amphibious vehicle. The guide told us that some blocks could be more than 500 years old. We then went to Diamond Beach, a place where tidal action causes ice floes to reappear on the beach.
Seeing this spectacle made me wistful. The ice took centuries to get this old and thick. Then it floats through the water to the open sea to disappear into it and never return.
To express this feeling, I used a long shutter speed. This slows down the image, symbolising the long way the ice has travelled. I also wanted to show how hard the water has to work to bring the ice along. In doing so, I had to be careful to jump away from the waves in time. Unfortunately, I was too late, which also left me with wet shoes and feet. Fortunately, I had dry gear in the car.
Since a few years I have discovered the passion for photography. I call myself primarily an outdoor photographer: when I'm outside, my eye scans the surroundings, looking for that one image that catches my eye, and which I can then take a nice picture of... Read more…