Iceland Print Session
The second weekend after we got back from Iceland, after we’d pretty much settled back in at home and gotten everything sorted with the vehicle, I realized - in a panic - that it had been a couple of months since we’d printed anything. So that Sunday I set about selecting a couple of images, working on them a bit and then running them through the printer. As I’d expected, I wound up having to do a nozzle cleaning (at the waste of a lot of ink) to clear out a couple of stuck nozzles. But once that was done, I was ready to go.
Ann said she wasn’t ready to print any of her images, so you’re stuck with a few of my images. There were a couple of images I made at Landmannalaugar on our hike with Judy and John I was anxious to look at. They’re both of the same set of mountains, but the foregrounds are very different.
The first image was taken from the top of the lava field we’d been hiking on. It gives a higher perspective of the mountains and a hint of the trail that can take you from where you’re at to the valley floor below.
The second image was taken after we’d descended down to the valley. Ann had fallen in love with what we called the “white puff balls” that are commonly referred to as Iceland Desert Cotton (also known as Cotton Grass (Eriophorum)), and when I saw the vast expanse of cotton grass, I had to make the image, regardless of how similar it was to the image above.
I printed the two images on a matte fiber paper, so they retain the delicate colors and textures of Landmannalaugar in the prints. They are both quite lovely.
My third and final image was a detail shot of the mountains at Vestrahorn. Not Vestrahorn itself, but the mountains a bit to the west. I had become enamored with the subtle coloration of the slopes and just had to focus in on them. For that print I chose a glossy F surface to bring out the beautiful colors of the mountain.
It was a quick printing effort, but I must admit, I was very pleased with the results.