[Leica] Icelandic trees

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I met a guy from Iceland in midtown Manhattan a few nights ago I was
shooting a ten foot replica in highly illuminated by florescent lights
doorway of the statue of liberty. He was into humor but his English needed a
lot of work. We got on fine for ten minutes. By the way he was real tall say
six feet six inches.
Iceland is where I've always wanted to go. And its not to hard to get there
the airplane routes have good deals. Bj?rk is about the only pop star I like
people think that's why I want to go there but there was a photo book out on
Iceland in the 70's which got me hooked at first.
-- 
Mark William Rabiner
mark at rabinergroup.com

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/iceland.shtml


> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:12:45 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Icelandic trees
> 
> Old Icelandic joke:
> 
> Question - If you are lost in a forest in Iceland, how do you you find your
> way out?
> Answer - Just stand up.
> 
> The grain of truth in this is that Iceland has very few trees except those
> planted in city parks. The original Norse settlers came from a wood using
> culture and devastated the original Icelandic forests. The wood was used 
> for
> houses, boats and firewood. The original settlers did not realize that in
> Iceland's cold climate, forests would take generations to rebuild. Over
> cutting kept forest growth down until the 20th century. In recent years,
> Iceland has learned to exploit geothermal power for energy. Now nearly 
> every
> town has heated olympic sized swimming pools and enclosed greenhouses in
> which most fresh produce is grown. My Norwegian wife and I spent many happy
> vacation days in Iceland. I have numerous poor quality pictures taken with 
> a
> Leica Digilux Zoom which I may post on the LUG. If you don't look at them
> large, they provide an interesting view of a cold, but modern country.
> 
> Larry Z