Bjarki and Naes' Incredible Numerical Challenge (Part 7)

Akureyri harbour

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This church window in Húsafellskirkja makes an ironic but also very appropriate location for this mass grave of dead flies.

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Picture taken through the window of my apartment. This cat and another cat take turns in guarding my window and make sure that no other cats are nosing about. Looks like I caught him off guard!

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When you are outside you want to be inside and vice versa. This is a helicopter from the Icelandic Coast Guard, Icelandic Coat of Arms decorates this emergency exit.

Bjarki and Naes' Incredible Numerical Challenge (Part 5)

From the harbour in Akureyri, north Iceland.

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This scenario is quite un-Icelandic; Sales are on, no-one is shopping and the sun is shining.

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To get to this fire-exit you have to get past Antonio first.

Bjarki and Naes' Incredible Numerical Challenge (Part 3)

Its time to kick this challenge to a new level, a little bit more ambiguous but if you are smart then you can work it out.

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I thought this was a bit strange...

Sign on a winter holiday

...all the egg layin´ creatures left Iceland last autumn and havent arrived yet for the summer (if they are smart enough!)

..and i couldn't resist adding this bus-sign and lamppost snuggling up against each other in the cold.

Bjarki and Naes' Incredible Numerical Challenge (Part 1)

I actually struggled a bit with this 1. I had this idea of shaping the number 1 using snow on a dark background, but there was no snow for some time, and spring was pretty much around the corner. Then to my surprise and joy, the snow arrived. In the end i liked this version better (slightly photoshopped to fit the brief):


...but to give my original idea justice...

Driving at the top of the world

Driving is always an adventure in Iceland, especially when you drive past such nicely shaped piles of snow...mmmmmmm....

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I thought I was seeing double x 2... Picture taken in the lovely town of Hafnarfjörður, where they have more elves and hidden people than most other towns I know.

Natural Landscape in Iceland

You could say this is a natural landscape within the city. This photo is taken from one of the busiest traffic streets in Reykjavík; Sæbraut, the mountain is called Esja.

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Bonus Supermarket in Reykjavík, the icicles initially caught my attention.

The Local Market - Kolaportið in Iceland

Kolaportið is Reykjavík´s version of the local market. It has survived for quite a number of years. The reason; it´s indoors! Rain or snow its open every weekend. One of the few places in Iceland where you can walk around taking pictures unnoticed. But it´s also a nice place to talk to people. There you find people like Reynir Sverrisson who sold me the postcard in the post(card) history post. He buys and sells Icelandic postcards and stamps, he even travels abroad to acquire Icelandic stamp collections which ended abroad after the war.

Post(card) History

Photo: ©Helgi Árnason
Sigurður Guðmundsson appears to have been considering the resurrection of the Icelandic women's costume as early as his student years in Copenhagen. When he returned to Iceland for good in 1858, he soon started work on designing a new costume, which he felt was a reflection of the spirit of the costumes that Icelandic women had worn from the early days of Icelandic history.
The skautbúningur came into being in 1858-60. The oldest extant example of a skautbúningur was made in the first half of 1860 by Sigurlaug Gunnarsdóttir, wife of Ólafur Sigurðsson of Ás, Hegranes in north Iceland, who was a relative of Sigurður's. Letters from Ólafur to Sigurður are preserved, in which he requests patterns and more detailed instructions on the sewing of the new costume. These are the principal sources for the history of the design.
(source: http://www.buningurinn.is)

Welcome from Iceland

Self Portrait - Part 1 of the Exchange completed from the top of the world...
me and the rest of the bunch...