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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 29/09/2026

Why social media is not actually social These platforms have become a very different thing #socialmedia #disinformation See the full video that talks about how influencers really aren't your friend at youtu.be/q5gvoorgX3E

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/09/2026

The other day I posted a few two-year-old foggy photos from a hike around Hveragerði. These were taken in almost the same locations, except this time just after it had snowed. #photos #iceland #nature #hiking

A path through the reforestation area near Hveragerði. It is covered with snow. It is snowing.

A view through the branches of a few trees. We can see a plume of steam in the distance

A photo of an evergreen tree. It is surrounded by snow.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/09/2026

How can you build a better life online? Basically, don't rely on social media for all your information needs See the full video that talks about how context collapse in social media undermines expertise at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/09/2026

Why nobody online seems to like experts By destroying context, social media has made expertise homeless See the full video that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/09/2026

Reading and social media How platforms strip all nuance from the debate make it hard to discuss audiobooks, print, and ebooks online See the full video, "Why is social media so humourless?" that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 23/09/2026

Why does social media get hostile? The basic design of the social media platforms promotes hostility, but not in the way you expect. #socialmedia #disinformation See the full video that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 22/09/2026

Been revisiting a few of the photos I took almost two years ago during a foggy walk here around Hveragerði. #photos #iceland #nature #hiking

The greenhouses by the horticultural school, lighting up the fog, and their little pond in the foreground

A path into the fog. You can see the trees ahead vaguely.

A misty path through the reforestation area near town.

A tree, spruce I think?, that stands alone in the fog.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 21/09/2026

Longer videos can both use more diverse storytelling strategies and can apply them more effectively for both education and entertainment. #disinformation #medialiteracy #montage See the full video on why we shouldn't just let short videos dominate everything youtu.be/92Obxvs-LfY

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 20/09/2026

This is now happening multiple times a day on iOS and iPadOS. Controls disappearing randomly (it’s not just in the wrong colour, there is nothing there to respond to your touch). Happens the most in Safari but been seeing it elsewhere as well

A sceenshot from an iPad showing three buttons. One of them is blank

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 20/09/2026

The impressionistic TikTok. Where I talk about how short videos leave impressions, not observations. #videoproduction #disinformation #medialiteracy #montage #tarkovsky #eisenstein #kuleshoveffect See the full video that explains how shorter videos can promote misinformation youtu.be/92Obxvs-LfY

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/09/2026

Here's a photo I took right towards the tail-end of the 2008 financial bubble in Iceland, when it was more lucrative for investors to buy up properties on the Laugavegur/Bankastræti shopping street, drive out the stores, and just let the real estate price increases roll in Didn't last

An empty store window is full of flyers. A bit further down the road you can see a sign for a watchmaker and goldsmith and a bit further down there's Austurstræti

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/09/2026

Why this format? Where I explain a bit why I'm using this format for video #videoproduction #disinformation #medialiteracy #montage #tarkovsky #eisenstein See the full video that explains how shorter videos can compromise learning over at youtu.be/92Obxvs-LfY

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 17/09/2026

A few black and white versions of photos I shot between fifteen and twenty years ago.

Two people standing near a cliff's edge.

A couple walks past the Reykjavík Pond during New Year's Eve.

Another New Year's Even photo. This time from a street in Garðabær. There are fireworks.

A shot of an actor waving goodbye taken during a project by Tom Abba that

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 16/09/2026

Let your work be imperfect and be forgiving of yourself See the full video at youtu.be/GV4x17Ygh4s

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/09/2026

Why it's often harder to get started when you know what you want to make? #video #creative #writing #practice See the full video at youtu.be/GV4x17Ygh4s

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 14/09/2026

Making video is not easy. Video doesn't come naturally to everybody, much like writing doesn't come naturally either. How do you get out of your own way when making? #video #creative #writing #practice See the full video at youtu.be/GV4x17Ygh4s

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 06/09/2026

A few photos I shot in 2008 that I'm unreasonably fond of. The first is a photo of the shop window for the used book store in Hverfisgata. Second is of the original Kaffistofa in Hverfisgata run by Samhjálp, a free kitchen for the needy. Third is of a mannequin in a shop front.

This is a bookshop window. You can see a part of a photo of Marilyn Monroe in the window.

A unobtrusive place with a simple sign, "Kaffistofa". The walls have been tagged with graffiti.

A mannequin with a very serious look on its face seen through a shop window.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 06/09/2026

Here's a 20 year old blast from the past. Took this one during Sigurrós's public concert in Iceland in 2006

Bit of a lightshow on stage as Jónsi plays an electric guitar. You can catch glimpses of the crowd.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 03/09/2026

Had a go at reworking a photo that I've reworked before but this time using Spektrafilm. First version was done using a web app called Saulala. Second done with CaptureOne using one of the Fujifilm-provided colour profiles. Third done with Spektrafilm using, fittingly, their Fujifilm C200 emulation

A view of an overgrown ditch surrounded by trees and flowers. Photo looks a bit faded. Almost like it has a pastel colour scheme.

A view of an overgrown ditch surrounded by trees and flowers. Much more saturated colours and a more "modern" contrast-y look.

A view of an overgrown ditch surrounded by trees and flowers. The colours here are more natural than the other two and has more realistic looking grain.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 03/09/2026

When you first load an image it's showing you a blurry low-res preview, but once you hit scan (and wait for ages) you get one of the best software film emulations I've seen Slow as hell, but looks quite good

A broken down shed in a garden. Probably built for children.

An overgrown bench by a path, surrounded by trees.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/08/2026

A flock of starlings decided it was absolutely vital that they all immediately move 100 metres to the west #iceland #nature

A black and white photo of a large number of starlings flying over a mountainous landscape

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/08/2026

This is arguably one of the most "Hveragerði" photos I've taken. The river Varmá flowing past Reykjafjall mountain. #iceland #nature

A river runs past a mountainside. Steam rises here and there throughout the landscape.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/08/2026

I think this site here in Hveragerði is scheduled to be demolished, cleared, and replaced with high end flats next year. They've all been empty for months now and the house has been damaged by recurring leaks in the heating #iceland #hveragerði

An empty commercial greenhouse next to the foundations where there used be a greenhouse

An old house, next to two empty commercial greenhouses

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 22/08/2026

One horse there looks more curious than the rest #iceland #nature #horses

A black and white photo of a field. One horse is way over to the left of the image, separate from the rest of the herd.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/08/2026

Reworked this one to look a little bit less retro

A view of an overgrown ditch surrounded by trees and flowers.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/08/2026

Took a slightly less trodden route during my last hike.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/08/2026

Took this photo last week. Shows why you sometimes need rain gear when hiking around town even when there isn't rain.

A geothermal well spews a big steam cloud. Part of it rains down on the path. Along the path we see Alaskan lupine and buttercup flowers. On the other side of the river three people are riding their horses.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/08/2026

Closer view of the door to the antique car association of Borgarfjörður

A closer view of the door to where the exhibition booths for the antique car association used to be. You can see a bit of the photographer's reflection in the window.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/08/2026

Went on a day trip to Borgarnes this week. The highlight was the café Kaffi Kyrrð. Also went to the Settlement Exhibition in the Settlement Center which was so old the videos were in standard definition. But a nice town and a great trip Of course, I only photographed the rustier sides of the town

A broken-down tour bus photographed in black and white.

An old sign over an old door on a rusty corrugated-iron wall. The sign says "sýningarbásar", or "show booths", and "Fornbílafélag Borgarfjarðar" or "the antique car association of Borgarfjörður". The building is now unused.

The other side of that large warehouse, showing the rusty corrugated iron. A mountain towers over it in the background.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/07/2026

Almost forgot to add the photos themselves. These are from a new path that was made in the reforestation area to the north of the town to a small grove called Ísakslundur that wasn't really accessible before

A path through some trees. On one side we see a sign with the word "Ísakslundur" which means translates to "Isaac's Grove" in English. A few of the tree stumps to one side have been carved into mushroom shapes

Behind the new path is an older, disused path so there must have been another path leading up there at some point.

Once you walk down that path you get to a field that is covered with buttercup flowers

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 26/07/2026

So this is a very short quick and dirty, if a bit silly, video where I talk about the place I'm in with the photos I just took laid out over the audio.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 25/07/2026

Here are a couple of attempts of mine to take moody photos of the geothermal fields behind the horticultural school, by the Fífilbrekka cottage. #nature #iceland #blackandwhite

A black and white photo, shot through a field and trees, of an area of geothermal springs. You can see steam rising and, way on the other side, a small warning sign.

A black and white photo of the mountainside. Steam rises from a geothermal spring.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 20/07/2026

Finally got around to posting two months' worth of photos to my blog. These are pics I've been posting on social media but haven't had the mental bandwidth to add to my website. "Long-delayed summer 2026 photos" www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos...

A cat stretching out on its back on asphalt and yawning.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 14/07/2026

I had a go this weekend at simply using in-camera processing for my photos because the Linux-based photo tools are kinda garbage. But the in-camera tools aren't fantastic either, so even minimal editing in CaptureOne on top of the built-in Fujifilm tone curves really can make a big difference.

First off, we have a JPG as delivered by the Fujifilm camera. It's of fog over a field with a couple of lone trees and a bench. In the background we see the roots of a mountain. It's kind of a flat image

The same photo, still using the same tone curve offered by Fujifilm, just with a bit of an exposure adjustment and a saturation boost on the greens. It is not flat

Again, the same photo, again using a tone curve from Fujifilm except this time it's their ACROS black and white film emulation, some exposure adjustment. The image looks very moody, though it is probably darker than it should be

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/07/2026

Halide's film simulations are actually okay.

The path past the geothermal field behind the horticultural school. We see what's supposed to be a "security" fence separating the hiker from boiling mud

A path into the fog. This is by the small cottage called "Fífilbrekka" that noted pastoral fascist Jónas frá Hriflu built in the post-WW2 period. It's being renovated, hence the pipes by the path.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 11/07/2026

For this #caturday I decided to try something different. Not in the subject, the model today is my neighbour Lukka, a very friendly black and white cat. No, it's an experiment in just using the camera to generate JPGs.

Lukka, a black and white "tuxedo" patterned cat on a fence looking very intent.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 05/07/2026

Here's a bit of an audio experiment. Not actually video, just an audio recording of a group of horse riders passing by during my hike.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 04/07/2026

My walks and Grása's have been crossing paths lately #cat #caturday

Grása, a long-haired grey and white cat, walks past some wild flowers growing next to the pavement.

A black and white photo of a grey and white cat standing on the pavement and looking to the side

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