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strange land

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:46:22 -0700

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In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

The bluest of blue creek running from the hydro-plant at Krafla Powerstation, N-Iceland.
The clouds mix with the steam from the geothermal drilling holes at the left horizon, making for a strange skyline.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The EXIF info is getting better here on FLickr, telling you basically all about HOW the camera was set and then what was done in Camera RAW.
I stumbled across this:
Measurement Observer: CIE 1931
WHO/WHAT is the Measurements observer???? What does it do? AND WHAT is that number....?
One's gotta love the EXIF.........the secred code or what?

summer comes in

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:59 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

That beautiful season the Summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the heath over to Breiðuvík, in Borgarfjörður Eystri, E-Iceland.
The winter's remains are still there, the road was closed because of a big bank of snow that the sun hadnt yet melted, but the earth was full of summer's life waking up.

path

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:19:47 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

“It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.”

Martha Carey Thomas

At Hraundrangar peaks in Öxnadalur valley, N-Iceland.

I've been away from Flickr for a good while, but I am looking forward to spending more time here again - and I know I am in for a treat to go and visit your photostreams!

send in the clowns

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:59:00 -0800

hkvam posted a photo:

...And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year......

Stephen Sondheim

The market tent at Lónkot in Skagafjörður, N-Iceland.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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tufts of grass

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:45:43 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

Fretted shadow on stumps
A vanishing husk
Of light . . . grey lumps
Of stone verge the hills with fears.
It is quickly dusk.

Allen Tate

At a small field hidden in between the smoking and steaming hills in the Þeistareykir geothermal area, North Iceland.

the quacks

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:55:01 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

I hope you love birds too.
It is economical.
It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Eider ducklings on the island of Vigur, Ísafjarðardjúp in the Westfjords, W-Iceland.

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at the fourth

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:47:51 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

At Akureyri's Golf course, N-Iceland.

May thy ball lie in green pastures .... and not in still waters.
Anonymous

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go long

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:06:19 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
~P.G. Wodehouse, Order by Golf, 1922

The 2nd hole at the golf course in Lonkot in Skagafjörður, N-Iceland.

Now is the time for midnight golf here in N-Iceland with the Arctic open just about to start here in Akureyri.

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circle of buttercups

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:46:58 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

Zenkei Shibayama

In Skálar, "ghost" village, Langanes Peninsula, NE-Iceland.

This was at its height of prosperity around 1910 and featured one of Iceland's first mechanised freezing plants, lively fishing operations and a population of 300 and growing. A steep downturn in the fisheries, however, brought the adventure to a swift end. Today the buildings are slowly disappearing into the landscape and no person is there apart from a few tourists during the high of summer.

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the guide

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:50:40 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

The lighthouse at Malarrif, Snæfellsnes, W-Iceland.

The light was so beautiful there that I totally ignored the fact that Lóndrangar were only a few minutes walk away.

And it had finally started to rain, or so I thought...
The classic joke for the tourist being: Just wait a few minutes and the weather will change rang more true than ever. The drops just showed up on the windshield of the car in a rush to a destination far off.
For the whole trip there were signs pointing to a mountain slope, stating that this and that waterfall was there, but nowhere a drop of water to be seen.

But Malarrifsviti lighthouse stood there so white and pristine out of the middle of nowhere (literally) and made me think of this quote from Dan Millman:

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark

The Weather report having been especially uncertain so far this summer, promising the rain that never came, promising just about what can be invested in a thing called forecast, or as in Iceland; we call it the weather fortune telling, with forecast and fortune telling being the same word in Icelandic.

Look into my crystal ball....there will be sunshine........

-or something along those lines.

blades of grass

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:33:00 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

An old house at Ytri-Vík in Eyjafjörður N-Iceland, now renovated at least on the inside as a summer cottage, hence the oddly new looking glass in the windows.
From a short phototour in Eyjafjörður with my friend Daníel.

.....The Wind begun to rock the Grass
With threatening Tunes and low --
He threw a Menace at the Earth --
A Menace at the Sky.......

Emily Dickinson

dawn over the fields

nobody@flickr.com (hkvam) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:02:04 -0700

hkvam posted a photo:

A beautiful new day begins at 3:30am. The light and color display lasted for 10 minutes only.
This time around it paid off to be a nightowl.

July 28th 2006

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