Pre-pandemic, Canadian Jessica Auer cut up her time between Montreal and east Iceland. She was dwelling within the former when the town introduced its first lockdown in March 2020 and so, not understanding what lay forward, she and her boyfriend, Zuhaitz, returned to Iceland. It’s right here that their kitchen window faces a fjord 25km lengthy and 1km broad. “It seems like a extremely broad river, nevertheless it’s truly the ocean,” Auer says. “A kilometre throughout, or rather less, sits this mountain. It adjustments consistently with the seasons and the sunshine. This photograph was taken at sundown.”
The mirror-image binoculars on all sides of the sill are omitted for visitors, who instantly gravitate in direction of them when visiting. “The window has such a elegant view. The mountain is often peaceable, however we’ve seen backcountry skiers on it sometimes. On the water, ships cross by, the birdlife is various and porpoise seem most weeks,” Auer says. “Yearly, if we’re fortunate, we see humpback whales.”
Again in Iceland, the couple started isolation. Auer discovered use Zoom, whereas persevering with to work remotely for her educating job in Montreal, and took up yoga.
“I took this picture spontaneously on my iPhone 6 that first week in confinement, as Zuhaitz regarded out. There isn't a enhancing; it didn’t want it. I wasn’t consciously making an attempt to encapsulate the expertise, nevertheless it’s grow to be extra particular to me because the years have handed. It was a lovely second at a time that was very troublesome, and have become harder within the years that had been to come back. I look again at this picture warmly.”
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