Looking back, seaside in Iceland with Hexar AF

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During the recent boom years in Iceland, when naive confidence in free-flowing credit and crass 'financial vikings' reigned, the building industry ran rampant. The small town I grew up in, close to Keflavik international airport, exploded with new concrete boxes.

But by the sea, nothing new stirred. The old fish factory, in which I worked for a summer when 12 years old, is derelict and sad. Not much use for it but it isn't quite abandoned. I took a walk on a blustery day when visiting Iceland earlier this fall. I carried the Hexar AF, with a Fuji 100 film. Not the right film for the contrasty conditions (I felt most photos were overexposed and needed quite a bit of pulling back in Lightroom) but gives the photos a harsh, uncompromising quality.

http://www.berserkur.net/gallery/Brynjolf/
 
viggi said:
During the recent boom years in Iceland, when naive confidence in free-flowing credit and crass 'financial vikings' reigned, the building industry ran rampant. The small town I grew up in, close to Keflavik international airport, exploded with new concrete boxes.

But by the sea, nothing new stirred. The old fish factory, in which I worked for a summer when 12 years old, is derelict and sad. Not much use for it but it isn't quite abandoned. I took a walk on a blustery day when visiting Iceland earlier this fall. I carried the Hexar AF, with a Fuji 100 film. Not the right film for the contrasty conditions (I felt most photos were overexposed and needed quite a bit of pulling back in Lightroom) but gives the photos a harsh, uncompromising quality.

http://www.berserkur.net/gallery/Brynjolf/
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Well done, and thanks for sharing these.
 
thanks all for looking.

Fenwick: congrats on your Hexar AF. It's a great camera and a joy (and challenge) to use. I picked mine up in Holland, on a whim, when I was working in Groningen for 2 weeks and didn't have a camera with me. I don't regret it. But I do need to understand its performance better.
 
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