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A 3 minute long-exposure photo taken at dusk of Hallgrímskirkja which is the main church in Reykjavik and the tallest building in Iceland.
It's a Lutheran church that was designed in 1937 by local architect Guðjón Samúelsson but construction wasn't completed until about 40 years later.
The statue in front of the church was a gift from the USA in 1930 and is of the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson - the man now believed to have been the first European to arrive in North America around 500 years before Columbus and for introducing Christianity to Iceland.
For those of you who may be interested in architecture here's a link to another famous church that was designed by Samúelsson, this time in Copenhagen. You can see that he had a very distinctive architectural style:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Grundtvig%27s+Church&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Cs5_UJu7NcnDhAekw4CYBw&biw=1216&bih=659&sei=Es9_UJO9LNDgtQadsIBA
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to my website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@Jerry: Thanks Jerry - by the way, the link is to a different church by the same architect; one that is in Copenhagen rather than in Reykjavik.
@JacklineG: Thanks Jackline!
@Hoshisato: Thanks Hans!....the 16mm focal length was the key but my tripod was as far back as I could get it without actually being in the road with the traffic.
@Gérard Beullac: Thanks Gérard!
@Richard: Thanks Richard!....yes Iceland is a truly wonderful destination for anyone interested in landscape photography and it wasn't expensive at all.
@Stefan: Thanks Stefan!
@Ann: Thanks Ann!
NIKON D800
911/5 second
F/8.0
ISO 100
16 mm (35mm equiv.)
