Diana Dunlap
Artist & Photographer
This photograph from the Ice beach sometimes referred to as the Diamond beach in Iceland, was featured in a group show at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California. The show will remain until April 19th.The title of the group show is BLUE. Happy to have this selected. It is printed on metal which gives it a 3D effect.
Blue Ice, photograph by Diana Dunlap 2017
In the end it is Beauty that will save us. So we must keep something of Beauty in our hearts. We can refer to that Beauty when life becomes difficult or in thanks when it is joyous.
Horses are symbolic of freedom and strength, and Rainbows are symbols of Beauty.
Upon seeing a rainbow, no matter if it is just a part of one or a full-blown double rainbow, it stops us in our tracks and we have no choice but to admire it. The rainbow is illusive, disappearing as quickly as it appeared. So keep that in your heart.
When I see a horse I want to give it a hug for being so magnificent and beautiful.
Horse sense is something a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W.C. Fields
Photo collage by Diana Dunlap 2018
Revisiting the beauty of Icelandic landscapes in black and white.
All photographs taken by Diana Dunlap in Iceland 2017
Revisiting my Iceland photographs now changed to Black nad white. All photographs taken in September 2017 by Diana Dunlap
A Gaelic Blessing
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow wind work these words
Of love around you,
an invisible cloak to mind your life
Inspiration for this photo collage from photos around Iceleand at Sunrise.
Photo collage by Diana Dunlap 2017
Standing on the Hverfjall crater that was formed 2500 years ago
I am reminded that there was and is currently fire under this island
called Iceland
The crater has a memory of it etched in its form softened by time
We are still living in an Ice age, albeit without mammoths running about
We still have Ice caps on both poles and elephants are the distant cousins of the Mammoths
What stands out as I look out over the crater is that time is a relative situation, depending on how and who is measuring it
The planet Earth is full of myriad wonders and beauty that we have the privilege of enjoying and witnessing the changes that are occurring
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Photo collage by Diana Dunlap 2017
At such a towering cliff overlooking a vast landscape
I am acutely aware of how insignificant I am
All of my worries fade
As I walk it seems that the land is moving instead of me
Then looking through to another side of life
I am aware of the guardian for this mountain
Then I feel ease and protection
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
You must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
Or, you will be taught how to fly.
Patrick Overton
Photo Collage by Diana Dunlap 2017
As if drawn up from the depths of the Arctic Ocean
Giant glacial ice crystals rush through the misty Arch
What waits?
When did this arch arise and from where?
Why is it here?
Photo collage by Diana Dunlap 2017
As the Solheimajkull glacier breaks off into sparkling tourquoise and white ice scultures, they create a bay of ice water. This water carries the sculpted ice to the black sand beach known as the diamond beach. The beach is covered with these diamonds, not for sale or for the taking. They are melting, they are for your eyes only to be captured in that moment not to be repeated. This is truely the most amazingly enchanting site I have ever seen. The word beautiful hardly covers it. As I was editing these images that Paul Simon song played in my head.
People say she’s crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that’s one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
All of the photos in this blog were taken in Iceland at the Jokulsarlon Diamond (Ice) Beach, by Diana Dunlap 2017
Magical Waterfalls of Iceland
And above all, watch with glittering eye the
Whole world around you because the greatest
Secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely
Places. Those who don’t believe in magic will
Never find it.
–Ronald Dahl
This is a view from the back of a waterfall in Iceland. The energy here was crackling with negative ions like something I’ve never dreamed of seeing. Iceland has thousands of waterfall gracing its land. It’s truely a water world in all of its forms; glacial, geothermal, rain, rivers, mist,shoreline waves and Ice.
