RE: When a Non-Landscape Photographer Goes to a Landscape Photographer's Paradise
You really should develop this side, as you have, obviously, an eye for it. Putting things into a wider context will further educate your photographic intent. Catching the energy of a place by carefully selecting your point of view, scene, the moment of the day, it is far more rewarding, at least for me, than other styles of photography.
Places, landscape, do speak. The common misconception is that landscape translates automatically to nature. It is not. A landscape is much more. Its branches are virtually neverending in terms of subjects and geometry. Indeed, one might argue that an electron-powered microscopic view of human skin can be a landscape, and indeed it is.
What I am trying to say is that your experiment in Iceland related to landscape was successful and this warrants at least a follow-up. :)
Hey man, thank you for taking the time to write this! I think you are right about the misconception, but that probably doesn't matter that much. The follow-up will be actually next month when the weather (I hope) will be more favorable for exploring such places while looking for the perfect scene :)
I thought about you when we were traveling in Iceland - I think it's a place that you are going to like.
I would have loved to be there! It is exactly my kind of happiness. To roam deserted, neverending, landscapes. :)
I know! :))