061 - Instagram Iceland I

 

 

 

  

So, I'm re-editing my instagram pictures of Iceland for a minialbum (maybe some prints); because I feel it's almost silly how at the end of the day my phone or my computer end up storing all my pictures. 

058 - Booklets

And this is the second part of what was my christmas gift.

It's the first time I design, plan, print and sew a fanzine. And it's been *very* slow going because everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong. A few times. Even so, I *loved* the process. 

I made two different little booklets of 8 pages each, with 120 gr. paper and a cover of soft blue paper of 80 gr. The inside cover is screen printed and I used two different colors for the print (green and blue), one for the fanzine of the pictures from Reykjavík and the other for the countryside. 

I made 20 and 20 of each and while I would have liked photographic print, I had a limited budget, so I did end working with a laser printer. 

By the way, I've have a few left, so if you want a pair send me an email at tanit.taltavull@gmail.com with your adress and I'll be more than happy to send them to you (be advised, though, that most of the text, even if there's not much of it, is in spanish). 

054 - Prints for Christmas

When I started with this blog I said that it was, mostly, an experiment, a place to pick and choose what pictures I would use for a small fanzine, something like a visual diary from my trip to Iceland. It has changed and evolved because I've been learning screen printing, something I loved before but now that I know the basics and I can do it myself, I simply adore.

Here's a sneak peak of said 'experiment' being finished, my gift for family and friends this christmas. I'll share more pictures (and of better quality) of it soon enough.

033 - Reykjavík XVIII

This is the last of my pictures of Iceland. Sitting in one of the outside stools of the best (and cheapest) noodle place in Reykjavík.

Making a selection is going to be a bit difficult, not because I think they are wonderful but because there's an emotional attachement. I'll keep on working on that.

I've been thinking quite a lot about the future of this little corner now that I shared all my pictures of Iceland. I have another blog, in spanish and where I talk a lot, and I started this one as a way to edit and choose pictures of my trip in June for a little fanzine... and because I still have a lot of things to learn and a lot to try out and experiment. I'm a philologist not a photogapher, I might be a bit obssesed with art and design but it's not a language I'm proficient in.

So I've decided to keep on posting in here, for a lot of reasons (one might have to do a lot with the name of this blog, but it's a bit of an ongoing personal project... and a lot of work and wishing), but mostly as a way to learn.

Please, keep on coming back, and thank you to all those who comment or just simply pass through, it's a pleasure to know you are in there.

❤

Tanit

032 - Reykjavík XVII

I've been away all weekend, up in the Pyrinees, visiting my brother and his newborn daughter. It makes my head spin to think about it now. It was so special holding her, watching her face move and change as she dreamed. Feeling her trust and tenderness... and bad temper. It's been an amazing pair of days.

031 - Reykjavík XVI

For some reason my body hurts all over, is mostly due to stress, but I feel a bit silly anyway. Add that to those longing feelings that permeate autumn and I wonder what am I doing today at work. 

030 - Reykjavík XV

Grey and grey and red. 

029 - Reykjavík XIV

I've been wondering about myself and my circunstances a lot lately, I've been wondering about change and the way we live like. About the way I live and how and what I want from it. Winter is very slowly coming in, and not as quickly as I would like, I miss breathing in cold air. 

028 - Reykjavík XIII

Well, yes, that pink table was the reason I took the picture, I'm simple that way. 

027 - Reykjavík XII & Snæfellsnes VI

I've have a mixed sense of how most of the pictures I take turn out. I feel I've changed and, at the same time, I feel I still have *so* much to learn. 

026 - Snæfellsnes V

025 - Snæfellsnes IV

Berserkjahraun, the Berserker Lava Field. One of the most incredible places I've seen. 

024 - Snæfellsnes III

Going down Djúpalónssandur beach, I think I took thousands of pictures of rocks (big rocks, small ones, green, grey, black...), something I never thought I would end up doing, but the colors fascinated me. I just wish I could have done a better work at capturing how strange and beautiful everything was.

023 - Snæfellsnes II

Sometimes I felt so small and unassuming before everything. And I don't have to wonder why, I just  loved it. 

022 - Snæfellsnes I

I don't quite like birds... well, not exactly, is more that I'm a bit scared of birds (more so if those birds can actually attack you, like the Artic Terns), so the trip to Arnarstapi was a bit of a gamble to my cowardice. In the end I was quite glad to reach the bird cliffs, the Snæfellsnes Peninsula is just gorgeous. 

021 - Seljalandsfoss

Water. Water. Water.