I usually don't prepare myself extensively before traveling in terms of the kind of images I'm expecting to create.



This image is an exception. I've seen images of done by Art Wolfe, Bob Khrist and series of other photographers done from this same exact view point, still I could not avoid being attracted to climb up and do the same that others did... Actually I was so eager on doing so that when I got to top of the elevation besides the waterfall and opened the backpack i found out that I had forgotten one of my cameras in the car... I left all my equipment at the top and ran downhill...

Imagine yourself running besides an enormous waterfall, jumping down on wet grass, almost feeling like a drop of water... This is what I recall now when I look at this image... I picked up the camera in the car, climbed back up and tried all sorts of possibilities, along with all sorts of medium I carried: Black and White, Color Slide, Infrared Film, and Digital. The image you see here is the infrared film version, I've also printed and like the black and white and slide film versions, but this is the one I find to be more attached to my own vision and also to my own intentions when I traveled to Iceland...

The image was shot on Efke IR 820c through an Heliopan RG715 IR Filter on my Bronica SQAi with a 50mm lens, I had only tried this film once before traveling to Iceland, my tests along with my previous experiences with Maco IR820c lead me to believe that the film an filter combination I was using where 1 to 2 stops faster that what I found them to be after the trip...

Because I usually load infrared film in subdued light I only have a back with 12 shots for a whole day, most of the times I bracket my exposures to +1 so this leaves me with 6 possible images... This time I instinctively bracketed to +2 and this is actually one of the phew acceptable exposures from this trip using this film... Did I say something about being prepared?...

If you ever wonder what was the camera I forgot in the car... It was the digital... I still did not edit my digital images from the trip... You may ask yourself if it was worth to go back for a camera when actually I did fine with the one I already had with me...

I probably went back for the wrong reason, with the right one being the fact that going back and forth on the landscape just for the sake of being there is more rewarding than the accessory act of creating images...