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Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir: Keeping Iceland Beautiful, One Picture at a Time

Stunning. Inspiring. Slightly wild… and the photos aren’t bad either.
In this second instalment of our continuing look at amazingly talented, attractive, self-taught female Icelandic photographers (yes, there’s more than one), we sat down with Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, who has dominated Flickr by presenting Iceland, and herself, as art.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is a bit uneasy about her success. She started taking pictures two years ago, […]

Geysir: What Goes Up, Must Come Down

The original geyser is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The rotten egg smell that steams out of geothermal Icelandic water is just something you get used to after a while. In fact, you may even begin to enjoy it. If so, head over to Geysir, where Strokkur erupts every eight minutes, impeccably timed with […]

Helga Kvam was here

Meet Helga Kvam, a one–woman, one–camera tourist board.

If you’re looking for pictures of Iceland on Flickr, chances are that sooner than later you’ll run into Helga Kvam, a music teacher living in Svalbarðsströnd, north of Akureyri.
Why? Because she takes lots and lots of stunningly beautiful photos of Iceland.
And we’re not the only ones noticing. From […]