rebekkaguðleifsdóttir

I take you for granted that the surrealism of the trees within their environment is intended…

beautific.

Really beautiful project! Nice shots.

best regards
V.

Great project! I like the atmosphere in your work very much!

outstanding piece of work, very insperatioanl!
keep up the awesome work!

Rebekka I have no idea how you managed to lug these around on your own - the look enormous!! How big were they? My favourite is definitely the one you posted on flickr - how long was the exposure?

Wow - I’d love to be able to get work I was this unhappy with! Love the use of such simple props to get such brilliant images - great work.

the one i posted on flickr was approx 100 sec exposure, if i remember correctly..
and well, you can see how big they are in the top picture where i’m standing next to them… the largest one was only used in that picture tho.. i’d guess the smaller ones are only about 12 and 15 kg, respectively.
(and i’ve been lifting weights for 13 years so carrying around some big branches didn’t strike me as very challenging)

Wow, Rebekka - I give you so much credit for all of that effort, in addition to the beautiful photos. Fantastic work my friend.

I think these are wonderful! Especially if only one or two were published, I’d say they would be particularly mysteriously interesting.

Well, must admit, I too read your blog
I really like this set (along with the painted stones you did). What I really like though, is that you’re not happy with what is a perfectly acceptable set of pictures; striving for perfection is a strong quality that actually shines through most of your work.
As a photojournalist these images aren’t my cup of tea, however I’m finding a real appreciation for them; fabulous.
I’d also add that the images called Álftanes, Kleifarvatn & Jökulsárlón do work rather well.

I like the Jökulsárlón image the best. The tones and the snow in the background make it seem most desolate. I wish we had brighter midnights here in the U.S., I love reading about your treks-at-any-and-all-hours-of-the-morning. (;

Love the concept. I saw some landscapes someone did, where they placed a chair in the forground in each of the images and have been thinkng about something similar in concept, nice to see you have done something similar.

Just need to think of something that isn’t a tree and isn’t a chair I suppose.

On another note. Last week I could read your blog at work, as of today it comes up as a banned site. The reason it being porographic allegedly.

Oh well, just have to look at it at home then!!!!

I think the pictures work particularly well in the context of a set like this. If I had to pick I favourite I think I’d go with Kleifarvatn, just because the trees are more dominant, but all are worthwhile.

Haha, you’re own litle happy trees…like Bob Ross.
I like this a lot, great job.
Greetings.

But this is why you are an artist!

you took these trees in different location!

great,did you do it yourself? or you have team to help you?

Your dedicate is to be admired, not only painting them but lugging them around! I especially love the ‘Reykjanes’ shot, just wonderfully serene

@season: i’ve never had any kind of team help me with any of my photos. I’m a die hard do-it-yourselfer..

You’re crazy, you got in that freezing cold lake to “plant” the trees on
‘nyways, I really like the last one

You could Photoshop the trees in (would not require lugging them around). However, it would take a lot of “tweeking” to get the same effects. I like the photos as they are and am so jealous of Iceland’s awesome settings.

Well. “photoshopping” things into images isn’t even remotely similar to doing things for real… Well, for me at least. The process is a completely vital part of the artwork, its not just about the finished outcome .. While going thru trouble setting up shots, you get certain insights and ideas that wouldn’t occur when you’re just sitting indoors pasting images together on a computer screen..
Maybe its ironic that i have this very firm stand against faking things in photoshop when i do, of course, use the program for editing all my shots afterward. I just don’t want to use it to do things that CAN be done for real. Just as a final touch, to tweak colors and such. Of course i often combine elements from two frames shot in the same location, for my double self-portraits for instance, but that’s still not the same as placing something in a photo that was never there to begin with. That’s a line i’ve drawn that i’m quite set on not crossing

Yet another stunning, visual essay! I could go on-and-on about ‘underlying narratives’, ‘apparent allegories’, theorizing on what I should be ’seeing’ — like some Jungian analyst — but won’t. Isn’t it enough to just like what I see? I think, yes! And you present much to be appreciated.

c’est une super idée. en voyant vos photos je ne peux que penser à une légende bretonne. l’arbre d’or.

très beau travail.

After visiting Iceland this summer I’m even more impresed of your work: you take a lot of effort driving to the locations (now that I know the real distances I can appreciate the time it takes) and then you setup the place (knowing the temperature of the water, I know i wouldn’t do it).
Congrats!

BTW, your country is beautiful (… as well as the people living there).

Wonderful project, I like this kind of pictures, you are a Muse

this is the first time I’ve seen all these together, Bekka … I absolutely love them. Alone, they’re good of course, but together like this they’re amazing.

They are pure magic.

You are so magic… all your photo have something that capture the soul in a magic trip…
Great!!!