2016Apr Iceland Day 14 PM: Skógafoss & Skogar Folk...
2016Apr Iceland Coast 2016Apr Iceland Coast
2016Apr Iceland Day 14 PM: Skógafoss & Skogar Folk Museum
Justified View
Flow View
Square View
Grid View
Journal View
Highlight View
Large Photo View
Slideshow
Proofing View
TV View
RSS
Willis Chung's Gallery Willis Chung's Gallery
2016Apr Iceland Coast 2016Apr Iceland Coast

2016Apr Iceland Day 14 PM: Skógafoss & Skogar Folk Museum
  • Aug 14, 2016
  • 103 Photos
Justified View
Flow View
Square View
Grid View
Journal View
Highlight View
Large Photo View
Slideshow
Proofing View
TV View
RSS
×
  1. Willis Chung's Gallery
  2. 2016Apr Iceland Coast
  3. 2016Apr Iceland Day 14 PM: Skógafoss & Skogar Folk Museum2016Apr Iceland Day 14 PM: Skógafoss & Skogar Folk Museum
  4. Skógafoss, on the ring road to the west of Vik.Skógafoss, on the ring road to the west of Vik.

Close

No comments yet.

All fields are required.

Comment

Comment successfully added. Add one more?

Description:

Tags:

Item information:

Skógafoss, on the ring road to the west of Vik.
We weren't planning on stopping at Skógafoss, believing we had seen enough of southern Iceland.
Little waterfall to the west of Skógafoss.
We didn't think the Skogar Folk Museum was open, but we were in luck! We were the only ones there!
Workshops from different periods of time in Iceland's history grafted into the museum.
Love these old machines from the post office.
That's a bit of a shock to the eye!
Wonder if there's any mail for us?
Visitors are able to approach things quite closely here.
The keys are a bit different compared to ours at home.
The characters over the numbers are subtly different, with Pounds instead of Dollars.
Numbers themselves, happily are unchanged.
I am not sure why the "0" is placed centrally, rather than where the "1" is.
More standard number placement on this machine.
Red is clearly the official Postal Service color.
Excellent old style phone system. A switching system anybody can grasp, unlike modern ones.
One of the few phone dials I have seen in a long time.
The urge to put a finger in a hole dial is too strong to resist!
Excellent Citroën snowcar/halftrack. This looks like it would be a hoot to drive!
The back door reminds me of airport shuttle vans. This would be more fun, though.
This also looks like it would be fun to ride in. Looks like it is amphibious as well.
OK, after a giant modern museum, there are a few little outbuildings...
Well, maybe more than a few... Working hard to make turf buildings look interesting.
Turf buildings closed off to the north, with doors and windows facing the sun towards the south.
This is somebody's house! What a great place, amongst the carefully cultivated trees.
Little church...
Northern sod houses. They don't look like sod houses from this angle. I like the corrugated metal!
Interesting door lock, with modern and old hardware.
Really pretty inside. Looks comfortable. This is the 28mm wide angle...
And this is the 10.5mm superwide, with DX crop. I am now in real estate photographer mode.
180 degrees from top to bottom. A cozy room!
Stooping to change perspective to a child's view of the room.
Turns out there are many little houses as part of this museum!
The kitchen, with just the natural light from the single window. Nice and neat!
Upstairs bedroom. The notes ask us to not sit or lay on the beds.
Spinning and weaving tools very well represented in these homes.
Much smaller bedrooms than we have now, unless we are talking college dorms and European hotels.
Next building over is the tack room. Challenging lighting conditions, but OK with the Nikon D800e.
Up in the attic, the first of a large number of butter churns...
Small windows to help keep the warmth in.
Tiny window to the north, looking at the young man-made forest.
Neat and orderly, perfect for a tack room.
A rabbit's view of the turf buildings and church.
I return to the first building's kitchen to take more photos of the old electrical panel.
I like electrical panels... Especially ones with meters of any type!
Door lock looks more 3-dimensional with the distorted perspective of the fisheye lens.
I find the attic above the kitchen, and yes, there is another butter churn.
Back outside again, I go to the ship captain's house next.
The (ship) captain's house is quite grand, made of wood from a shipwreck, if I remember correctly.
Full real estate photographer mode. Roomy sitting room...
The red upholstery works well with the green walls, I thnk.
Upstairs there are bedrooms and workspaces in between.
The home office, late 1800 style!
Lots of spinning wheels in this house! Wool is big business.
Office and bedroom, it turns out! Good light from the chandelier for working into the evenings.
Neat, organized kitchen. Nice stove, chimney must be external to the room.
Warmly panelled dining room. Looks inviting!
OK, lace making looks complicated.
I didn't sit on the couch, but I really wanted to!
Outside the front door of the captain's house.
Into the school next door. Bookbag management!
Clean, Scandinavian lines!
Peggy explores the teacher's podium.
Nice to see these schoolbooks in their normal environment.
This is what Peggy was looking at in the podium.
A little walk in the man-made forest around the folk museum. A recently planted forest.
Play area with interesting bones. Horse mandibles?
Waking back from the forest to another group of turf buildings.
Working the superwide to make low turf buildings look dynamic and exciting!
Inside the first, it is quite lovely. Not what one expects from looking at the outside.
Getting a peek into the bedroom in back.
In the mini-courtyard between the buildings. Close proximity probably kept snow from blowing in.
This is the pantry, and here is a friendly butter churn!
We are now going out to the shed.
In the shed there are work tables and some kettles for tea.
This is the most basic of hearths. Hole overhead to let the smoke out.
The back alley between the buildings looks spacious with the superwide.
The next house is more basically finished inside. The brightly painted cabinet is a nice touch.
Short beds for small children. Very efficient use of space!
The nicely furnished interiors are not what one would expect from the organic looking exteriors.
OK, the barn is much rougher looking than the houses. I like the lichen on the stones.
Moving to the next turf building, I wonder what is inside.
Ah, the metal and wood working shop. Nice to get your tools out
They even put a window in for the shop!
Not a very complicated lock.
There is another set of modern buildings, housing the collections of Thordur Tomasson.
He collected many examples of many different things. You could call him a hoarder,!
Boat models are a big part of the collection.
Peggy making art from history!
I don't know if the boat was an original part of his collection. Boats take up a lot of space.
Peggy getting a low angle perspective on the rowboat.
I use her angle, it's a good one!
Different staves or initials.
These little carved figures are very fetching.
Great horns on this one.
Is one asleep and the other awake?
Another visitor figuring out how to photograph the turf houses.
She makes a good choice with the half quarter view.
An overhead view of the nautical part of the collection.
Wait, there's a downstairs as well! More stuff!
A collection of sitting rooms!
This is very nice bronze work!
Downstairs are eggs and stuffed animals. Sort of a mini Smithsonian Institution.

Audio Mute
Prev
Play
Next
Shuffle
Include
Privacy and cookie policy
This site uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, serve personalized content, and analyze traffic. By continuing to use this site you agree to use of cookies and stewardship of your data.