Image of the Month

September 2010
Dyrholaey, Iceland, May 2010.

This is an image I almost threw away at first. This because of the dirt spots on the front lens. You can see the result especially in the sky. At Dyrholaey, situated right under the ash cloud of the erupting Eyjafjallajökull, the conditions were extraordinary. The ash was falling from the sky like from a hail storm. Everything on the ground was covered by ash and so was my camera. I did not notice until I suddenly could not see through the lens. I was chocked how the lens looked and stopped photographing at once. Now I find the image as an important document of the conditions during the eruption. The landscape was marked by the eruption and so was my camera.

Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-50
Lens: 28mm
ISO 50
Exposure: f 22 at 0,4 sec