Bernd is a puppeteer that I know from the States who lives in Iceland. He is a really phenomenal puppeteer and an all-round great guy. I went up to northern Iceland to spend the weekend with his family. They live forty minutes outside of Akureyri in a remote valley.
That’s his house in the lower right corner. The two other buildings are also part of the farm that he lives on, though he’s hoping to convert the larger one to a film studio. On the left of the picture is a waterfall, but it’s a little blurry in this photo.
We spent most of the time talking and going on walks, though we did play with puppets some as well. I didn’t take my camera into the workshop, like an idiot, but I did remember to take it on walks with me.
A glacier rests between the two mountains at the end of the valley. In the summer the ‘v’ is white surrounded by greens (I’ve seen photos) but in the winter it’s hard to distinguish the glacier from the snow.
The whole time I was there the sky and the mountains played games with shifting whites. Sometimes the snow was white, or blue or pink.
