Finland Mordançage

I spent the month of March doing the Silence Awareness Existence residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland. I photographed the winter landscape and have been working in the darkroom this past month to make Mordançage prints of the images. Here is some of my progress so far (including side trips to Iceland and Estonia!).

Sand Rainbow

A possible new series I am working on. Transplanting natural materials from one place to another to create site-specific installations. This is a "sand rainbow," made up of sand from Bighorn and Yellowstone National Parks, Prince Edward Island and Iceland.

Collages from Iceland Prints

Experimenting with some of my old prints of Icelandic landscapes by making collages. Trying to create illusory or eerie patterns of some sort. Not sure where it will go.

Nature is Crazy

Not my picture, but one I came across of the Northern Lights in Iceland. So so so so so so awesome!

Seattle Show

http://pcnw.org/gallery/exhibitions/ella-morton/#1

Solo Exhibition!

An exhibition of colour prints and a video installation, attempting to address the mystery and inscrutability of the natural world.

Some last Iceland images

I finally got around to scanning the last of my holga images from Iceland. Here are a couple of pictures from that last few days I spent there, at the beginning of April. I took a couple of trips in around the south of the country. The beach is very near where the volcano erupted.

Stykkísholmur

At the request of one of my most diligent blog followers (my dad), I have made another panorama of images pieced together from Iceland. This is 360 degrees around of the town of Stykkísholmur and its harbour, on the Snæfellsnes peninsula.

Skagaströnd via Holga

Northern Lights

From the evening when I was shooting and the Northern Lights came out. They are harder to photography than I thought. It's interesting though how the Holga made this large curvy burn at the top of the pictures.

Double Exposures

Some more Holga double exposures I made in Iceland:
Hverfjall crater near Myvatn and the sky.

Lighthouse, further up the peninsula from Skagaströnd.

Dimmuborgir gate, mountains, lava rocks and sky near Myvatn.

Iceland Holga Panorama

Now home from Iceland, I have been working on photoshopping all of the photos I took there. I made some images with my Holga camera, which I like to think of as my "sketching" camera. By that I mean that I use it to take experimental pictures that won't necessarily turn into a body of work. In this picture, I tried to make an in-camera panorama of a beautiful beach we found after a long hike in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.

Iceland Underwater

I went on a diving trip this past weekend, in Eyjafjor∂ur and around the North of Iceland, then down to Silfra in Thingvellir Naitonal Park. It was so beautiful and freezing cold! I am thinking about how to pair up underwater images with above-water images. Here are some with similarities.

Car Ride

I went on a couple of trips this week and entertained myself in the car by taking exposures of 4-8 seconds out the window. This is approaching the town of Varmahli∂ on the way back from Myvatn.


These are on the way back to Skagaströnd from Snæfellsnes.

Big Waves

It was very windy yesterday and there were huge waves on the ocean. The sun came out in the afternoon and the scene was something like this. The wind is so strong here, you can lean almost all your weight into it and not fall down. It gives new -and maybe more accurate- meaning to the Cat Stevens lyric, "I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul."

Skagaströnd!

I am currently at an artist residency in a small town called Skagaströnd, in the North of Iceland. Most of my work focuses around water and the ocean, so I have been exploring a lot of beaches around this town. I found a beautiful beach the other night, from which I sewed together several photos to make this panorama. Planning to go shoot 4x5 there as soon as it's not too windy!