Baldur Bjarnason

Photos (29 November 2024)

– Baldur Bjarnason

Five juvenile ravens moved into town during a recent cold spell. They’re a little bit too boisterous to capture easily in groups but will pose for you occasionally. I have an unreasonable liking for the one with the autofocus mishap. And bonus starlings

A photo of tree branches, but in the background you see the out of focus silhouette of a raven on a streetlight. A raven poses on a streetlight and inspects their surroundings A raven pauses for a moment on the roof of an old overgrown shed. Starlings, relaxing, seen through a haze of branches.

Icelandic horses seem unconcerned by the frost. Apparently they can handle cold and snow, but it’s wet weather that causes them to seek out shelter.

A group of horses graze. Behind them steam rises from a geothermal spring A brownish horse grazes in between the snow A paler horse stands and inspects everything in the sun.

Can you guess without checking which of these were taken on a camera and which on the phone?

The sun shines over a shed made out of turf. The sun shines over a line of trees. The steam from a geothermal well has left a shiny sheet of ice that reflects the sun. In the distance we see the silhouette of a treeline The same treeline in the distance, but now in the foreground we have Varmá river and a path on our side of the river.

Local blackbird engaging in a bit of a post-breakfast relaxation

A very fluffy blackbird perched on a branch

I had fun exaggerating the colours in this one.

A tree curves through the image. Below the evergreens look yellow in the sun. Above they look bluish green in the shade. The corner is blue.

The local cat shelter here in Hveragerði has a few, hopefully temporary, residents

Two cats, both black and white but one more long-haired than the other, lounge in the window of the cat shelter Another black and white cat sits in another window in the cat shelter.