Iceland's Call with Chris Burkard, Chapter III
Seeking beauty.Be there and leave no trace
Be there and leave no trace
Iceland's Call with Chris Burkard by Chris Burkard, Chapter III
You can find beauty in almost anything, but to purposefully seek it out means we must travel to new places, we must go to unfamiliar worlds and expose ourselves to new landscapes. This means we are turning to nature – a pretty natural response – because there are elements at work man can’t control or re-create, it just is.
Chris makes these trips, these quests to seek beauty because he puts nature at the centre of his lens. He reports back from the field to an audience tuned into his every journey.
Iceland is one of the many places he has made his subject. The rawness of the island grips every image with a cold beauty. It’s an unstoppable wanderlust – people want to experience these places for themselves, physical manifestations of the still images they ‘double-tap’ in appreciation.
To experience Mother Nature, to be physically in her presence draws out a deep and genuine respect that is only semi-possible through the lens, Chris understands this. He understands the curiosity of people inspired to make their own experiences in the landscape. He believes simply by being aware of principals like ‘Leave No Trace’ that it could be the catalyst for a growing number of ‘outsiders’ to make more meaningful efforts to preserve the ground beneath their feet.
Whether it’s paddling out into the bitterly cold waters or driving along single-track-roads into the vast an empty interiors, Iceland is just the backdrop for a much wider story Chris has been able to capture through his lens. Albert Einstein once said: “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Photography. Chris Burkard
Words. Jeffrey Bowman, Eldorado Guest editor
Traveller/s
Chris Burkard
Photographer, Surfer and Motivational Speaker
Chris is an American self-taught photographer and artist, based in California Central Coast region. Burkard’s work is layered by landscape, lifestyle, surf, outdoor and travel subjects. Burkard has led trips to some of the coldest regions of the globe: his travels seek out adventure and perfect waves in some of the coldest harshest conditions known to man, including over seven trips in Iceland, Norway and other parts of Europe.
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