Reykjavik walk

On Good Friday I walked all around downtown Reykjavik, enjoying the near-empty streets, and wondering what happened to the city centre. Laugavegur, the shopping street, is turning into a hollow core for a small city occupied by people in cars who prefer large parking spaces and malls.

Still, the graffiti takes on an intensity in the late-winter sunshine. I put some of the snaps on Flickr.

Somehow I didn’t have the heart to take photos of all the vacant buildings bought up by real-estate developers, rows of houses boarded up, waiting for the wrecking ball. Downtown Reykjavik is waiting to be rebuilt, one house at a time.

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Photographing for the desktop

On holiday this summer, I often found myself taking photos specifically for the purpose of having something nice to put on my desktop. And I realized that they all had certain common characteristics – large blocks of colour, no complicated patterns. They’re simple images to rest the eye when all programs are minimized.

I put up a collection of them here.

They’re images to make me happy in the morning, before the world intrudes on the stillness of my desktop.

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