Black beach III - Vik, Iceland Metal Print

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Black and white, long exposure view of Reynisfjara shoreline, black sand beach near Vik, south Iceland. This view is looking from Dyrhólaey towards Reynisdrangar rock formations. Photo was taken in 2019. © George Vlachos. All Rights Reserved.

I am a software engineer and an aspiring photographer living in northern Greece. I started my photographic journey back in 2012 taking some lessons and being part of a photography group. Since then, photography changed the way i look at the world, taught me to search and observe the hidden beauty and geometry in everything around us. Over the years though, i understood that even though the photographer's tool, the camera, is pointing towards the outside world, it really ventures inwards his own self. The frame is a window to not only the world, but to the mind that looks at that world. I make images mainly in black and white. The inherent abstraction of the monochrome image works as a shortcut away from absolute realism and towards...