Iceland ISPO shoot
Photographer Richard Walsh gave me a call and asked me if I want to come to Iceland for a week to shoot for the ISPO catalogue (the biggest sport-convention in Europe) some old friends of mine Christian Stadler and Sven Kueenle where coming to and I never had been to Iceland so I said sure, lets go.
Once on the Island and Reykjavik we met up with our guide Oli (Olafur) who was a real local and seemed to be really popular around the Island, he got a sick van that we where to spend a lot of hours in during the week. We drove about three ours to our hotel, the whether was really bad it was raining sideways the hole way their, but the blinks that you could see of the landscape was spectacular, black lava rocks everywhere kinda looked like the moon (not that I’ve been to the moon) and where there was grass it had the most amazing green color.
The whether was all right the rest of the week, and we went forth and back on the south east side of the Island and especially spent a lot of time around the glacier Myrdals Jökul and the biggest glacier in Europe Vattnajökul, we went from hot springs, to water falls, glacier caves, iceberg spots, lava rocks and mysterious black beaches, it was truly the most spectacular nature that I have ever seen. The mountains truly surprised me they where far much better then I expected, although it was a little bit late for good snow, but this place definitely has a lot of potential for mountaineering and lines.
We did our ski pictures up on the Myrdals jökul where Oli hooked us up with snowsleds/ skooters that we could cruise around on the glacier. We found some nice cliffs and jibs that we shredded and we got some sweet photos with the most amazing backdrops. Norwegian Snowboarder Per Löken and former snowboarder now make-up artist Kristel Thorenssen where also with us on the trip and we had a lot of fun together.
After a busy week and at least 5 hours of driving each day, we arrived back in Reykjavik the last day; we ate great seafood at one of the funkiest restaurants I’ve been to. Per and me took the most expensive course that we could find, shark for starters and Lobster for main course, and of course we had a few drinks on top of that (the production paid.)
The party in Reykjavik was as good as people had told us; we got hammered and went to a house club and later on to a rock bar (cant really remember the names.) I danced the night away and came back to the hotel 5 minutes before the taxi was leaving around 5.30. I slept the whole flight back home.
