Landscape
South Coast, Iceland
2024
Where We Felt Small
From the field
At Skógafoss the water falls sixty meters in a single sheet across the old sea cliffs of Iceland's South Coast, wide enough to fill the whole frame with white. We arrived before the tour buses, the black stones of the riverbed still quiet and the mist rising alone in the gray morning light. I asked Corey to walk down toward the base so the picture would carry some real sense of scale, and even then he all but disappeared, a small dark mark against that wall of falling water. Photographs alone rarely convey how large Skógafoss actually is. You have to stand on those stones and feel the ground answer it. No rainbow yet that early, just the plain weight of the water coming down.
Jonathan Gardner
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Open edition · Printed on demand. Not numbered.
Printed as a pigment giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, a cotton fine art paper finished with a barium sulfate coating in the tradition of classic darkroom prints. The image is laid down with Epson UltraChrome Pro pigments, six colors and three shades of black, at 1,440 dpi, and the baryta surface pulls blacks to a depth few papers reach. Shadow detail stays readable, contrast holds, and color sits with real density.
My glossy prints carry the saturation and bright surface of a photographic finish. The baryta does something closer to the darkroom: a cotton sheet with weight and tooth, a restrained shine rather than a hard reflection, and the depth that comes from ink meeting a barium-coated fiber. It carries no optical brighteners, so what looks right on the wall today still reads true years from now. For an animal photographed in low light, where the frame lives or dies in its blacks, it is the surface I trust most.
Specifications
Paper: Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 100% cotton, 315 gsm Finish: baryta, high gloss with a distinct texture Black density: Dmax 2.6, with no optical brighteners Process: pigment giclée, Epson UltraChrome Pro, 1,440 dpi White border: optional, adjustable from roughly 0.4 to 4.7 inches Sizes: up to roughly 118 x 41 inches (300 x 105 cm)
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Every print
- Printed on demand
- Every open-edition print is made to order. Not numbered.
- Shipping included
- Carefully packed and shipped worldwide. Shipping is included in the print price.
- All sales final
- Due to the custom nature of our prints, they cannot be returned or exchanged once an order has been placed.
