In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t talked much about printing images the past few months. Yes, there’s the recent Iceland Print Session post, but that was released months after it actually happened (the blog post does say the print session was the second week back from Iceland . . . which was in October!), but I haven’t really mentioned printing at all. That’s not because we weren’t printing though. It was because we were printing for a purpose, and we really didn’t want to let a cat out of the bag. So we stayed silent. We no longer have to.

We were, in fact, working on a folio of images to give to Yayoi and Magnús for being such gracious hosts when we were in Reykjavik. Not once, but twice! As it played out, a couple of the images proved to be much more difficult to print well, and it took us several printing sessions spread over a couple of months to actually get it all done. Then we had to determine sequencing, and then finally package it up. We didn’t post the package until just before Christmas. Now that it has arrived, we can show you our efforts.

We decided that instead of sending them a nice larger print, which raises all sorts of issues ranging from how to you mail it securely to does a large print make someone feel like they have to frame it and hang it on their wall, we decided to follow the approach I’ve taken on several occasions and create a folio of images. A short collection of prints that can be viewed hand-held and placed back in a nice container that can then be put away. We had found some nice archival folders to store our own work at home that would do the job for the container, so that was our starting point.

Image selection, as always, took a while. The number of images to include ranged from 10 to at one point 15, but we settled on 12. Six from Ann, six from me. It’s an interesting process, selecting images, printing them and . . . occasionally deciding that an image wasn’t right for the folio (prints don’t always come out as well as the image looks on screen), and then going back to find another one. We printed them A4 size (a little longer and narrower than 8-1/2” x 11”) on Ann’s favorite Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl, which I too have grown fond of. Once they were printed and we were satisfied with the prints and the number of prints, we had to sequence them (a much more difficult task than one might imagine). Once the folio was compiled, we packaged them and posted them.

They are presented below in the order in which they appear in the folio. They are captioned with basic location information. It’s up to you to determine who took what image.

Enjoy! And remember, you can always double-click on an image to see it full-screen!

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