Iceland Wonderland
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The Island Nation Iceland is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 39,769 sq mi. The capital and the largest city is Reykjavík with the surrounding areas in the southwestern region of the country being home to two-thirds of the country's population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior mainly consists of a plateau characterized by sand fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. from Wikipedia
Fire and Ice The Trip The Workshop Classroom Along the Way
The Workshop Program Details
Newsletter Essay from 2009 Trip
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To Register Included in the Workshop Photographic instruction with Stephen Johnson Fees and Cancellations The minimum number of people to run the class is 10 persons Full Fee is $5450 for instruction, shared lodging, meals and ground transportation as described above. Single supplement USD $515. Cancellation Policy will be supplied before enrollment. Itinerary can be supplied by request. |
Stephen Johnson
A photographer, teacher and designer, Stephen has been teaching and working in photography since 1977. His books include At Mono Lake, the critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland and Making a Digital Book. He has run his own photography, publishing and design company since the late 1980s--digitaly scanning and designing his photographic books using Macintosh computers and since 1994 photographing in the field with digital view cameras. |
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In 1999, Folio Magazine declared the publication of Johnson's digital photographs in Life Magazine to be one of the Top 15 Critical Events in magazine publishing in the twentieth century. Stephen Johnson was named as a 2003 inductee into the Photoshop Hall of Fame, recognized for his achievements in Art. Canon named Steve as one of their Explorers of Light in 2006. In 2007 X-rite named Stephen as a founding member of their exclusive Coloratti group of photographers and educators honored for their skills in color management. In 1997, Life Magazine described Stephen Johnson as an artist that "...applies science to nature and creates art." His images create "...an intimacy that brings subject and viewer close in ways conventional photographs cannot." The Photographer’s Gallery wrote in 1998: “Stephen Johnson's photography rides on the "bleeding edge" of photography's transition to a digital media. Schooled in the traditions of fine-art western landscape photography, Johnson has taken his understanding of traditional photographic processes and brought those skills to bear on the emerging technologies and aesthetics of digital photography. He has pushed technology companies to rise to the best of what imagemaking can be, and pushed his own vision of how we see and record light in the natural world. This has led him to conclude that the way we have traditionally captured images with silver-based photography has been a poor and distortive view of the real and rich world before our eyes. His photographs look almost "unphotographic" in their clarity and purity of color. He shows us a world we know, but rarely see on paper. His is a truly remarkable vision.” |
Tour Contractor Tim Vollmer: Tim is an exceptional nature and landscape photographer from Iceland. His images have been published around the world in such magazines as the National Geographic website, Icelandic times, Icelands official tourism guide, PhotoZoom, Defotograff and Land og Saga, just to name a few. Tim also runs workshops and photo tours around the world. His photography tours are designed for passionate photographers with the main emphasis on small groups. He believes that this allows him to optimize the program according to weather and light conditions. Each itinerary is designed to give time for individual exploration and everyone is given the personal attention to talk one on one with his respected instructors in order to ask questions in field for compositional and other technical tips. Tim is 40 and lives in Hveragerði, Iceland with his wife and his children. For more information on Tims’s photography, and his Workshops in iceland and Greenland; please visit his website. |
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March 29, 2012
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