Years ago, Nick and I drove hours out to the Svörtuloft lighthouse on the Snæfellsnes peninsula of Iceland on a gloomy May morning in our tiny rental car.  It was our first trip out to that part of Iceland and I remember looking at a Google Map that morning and thinking, this driving route doesn’t look too bad.  Fast forward several hours later and several gravel roads in and I was thinking “maybe we should turn around.”  This spot on the far Western tip of Iceland is not easy to get to and by the time we arrived, we were both glad to just be out of the car for a bit and standing in the coastal breeze, staring up at an orange lighthouse in Iceland.  We still talk about this adventure and driving those gravel mountain roads all these years later and if you can get there, it’s a pretty special place on the island.  It felt completely untouched, no tour bus in sight, and the bright orange against the gray ocean sky looking out over the water, I won’t ever forget that feeling.

Fast forward all these years later and I feel honored and proud to have a photo I took of that orange lighthouse published in a beautiful new coffee table book by Assouline called Iceland Epic.  It makes me even prouder to know that a country that has touched me so deeply over the years, lives on in the memories we create in photographs, now available to so many more to flip through and see how beautiful Iceland is.