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Words and images by Jens Bille
8 Day Workshop "Art of Puffin Photography" and other Arctic Birds.
An 8-day tour to photograph the puffins on Grimsey island, a.k.a «The pearl of the North», a small island one million birds call their summer home.
Located exactly on the Arctic circle, Grimsey hosts one of the biggest colonies of Atlantic puffins in the world, with around 250.000 individuals. They are all pretty easily accessible and perfect models to learn and practice artistic photography techniques such as backlight, silhouettes, blurs, bokeh and flares.
We will practice the techniques on puffins but may also apply them to other species such as razorbills, arctic terns, guillemots or waders.
The end of June is the most active period for the birds to display, nest and start feeding youngs.
The «Pearl of the North» stands 42 kms north of Icelandic North coast, exactly on the Arctic circle. A ferry allows travellers to visit the little village set around a fishing harbour.
Grimsey is 5.5 kms (3.5 miles) long and the maximum elevation is 105m. More than a millionbirds are nesting in the cliffs all around the island.
The Island hosts a community of 30 inhabitants, and has a small grocery shop, a restaurant and a swimming pool.
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Located exactly on the Arctic circle, Grimsey hosts one of the biggest colonies of Atlantic puffins in the world, with around 250.000 individuals. They are all pretty easily accessible and perfect models to learn and practice artistic photography techniques such as backlight, silhouettes, blurs, bokeh and flares.
We will practice the techniques on puffins but may also apply them to other species such as razorbills, arctic terns, guillemots or waders.
The end of June is the most active period for the birds to display, nest and start feeding youngs.
Many different bird spicies can been seen on Grimsey in the summer months including Common and Black Guillemot, Razorbills, Black-legged Kittiwake and Northern Fulmar, Arctic terns, Common Eider and, Red-necked phalarope, Snow bunting and many more.
