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This page brings together all of Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove’s blog articles focused on landscape photography, featuring insights, field techniques, and stories from around the world. Through his extensive experience photographing remote and dramatic locations such as Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica, Jeroen shares practical advice on composition, light, and camera settings to help photographers elevate their work. Readers can explore behind-the-scenes stories from his photo workshops, learn how to capture the beauty of diverse landscapes, and gain inspiration from his approach to photographing nature’s most powerful scenes.

Iceland Icelandic Highlands Landscape Photo Workshops

Photo Workshop Report: Highlands of Iceland (Mads Peter Iversen)

In early August, I set out to explore the Icelandic Highlands with Mads Peter Iversen during a photo workshop focused entirely on exploring some of my favourite areas of Iceland in the Southern Highlands. How did it go? Let's find out!

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveNovember 6, 2023

Northern lights in the sky above the camera

How To & Tips Landscape Northern Lights

5 Mistakes To Avoid When Photographing the Northern Lights

With the northern lights season in full swing again, many people are travelling to "hunt" for this elusive natural phenomenon. Therefore, I thought it would be a great idea to highlight some of the mistakes I see most when it comes to photographing them.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveOctober 23, 2023

Behind The Shot Landscape Volcano

Behind the Shot – Earth’s Beating Heart

In this month's "Behind the Shot" story, I take you back to the Geldingadalir eruption in 2021 when I captured one of my favourite shots of that eruption and maybe all-time. I named the photograph Hraunhjarta, which means "lava heart" in Icelandic.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveOctober 1, 2023

Greenland Landscape Photo Workshops

Photo Workshop Report: West Greenland in 5 Images

At the end of June this year, I had the privilege to host one of the most amazing photo workshops I've been on thus far. For starters, I finally get to work with my friend Nigel Danson, which I had been looking forward to for a while now. But also, it was also a trip that was originally supposed to…

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveSeptember 24, 2023

Behind The Shot Landscape Wildlife

Behind the Shot – The Hungry Puffin

In this month's "Behind the Shot" blog, I want to share a story behind one of my, if not my all-time, favourite puffin photograph which I took back in the summer of 2021.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveSeptember 17, 2023

Featured How To & Tips Landscape Northern Lights

How to Photograph the Northern Lights

A lot of people travelling to Iceland, have asked me how to photograph the Northern Lights before. The aurora season has just started last week, so I thought it was definitely a good time to write this journal entry.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveSeptember 1, 2023

The Meradalir volcanic eruption at the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland.

Behind The Shot Landscape Volcano

Behind the Shot – Day One of the Meradalir Eruption

In this month's 'Behind the Shot' story I decided to share a story about the first day of the Meradalir eruption in Iceland, which took place one year ago.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveAugust 29, 2023

Greenland Landscape Photo Workshops Top 5

Greenland in Winter in Five Images

Earlier this year, in March, I travelled to Greenland to host a photography workshop together with Andy Mumford. In this blog, I want to share five of my favourite images taken during this workshop.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveJune 14, 2023

Behind The Shot Landscape Volcano

Behind the Shot – Past & Present

The subject of this month's 'Behind the Shot' is a photograph which I named 'Saga' (translated: 'History'). I took this photograph during the Geldingadalir eruption in 2021 shortly after all but one crater shut down, which ended up growing into a massive mountain which is still there today. In this photograph you can see the northernmost crater in the foreground…

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveJune 7, 2023

Landscape Opinion

Why AI Won’t Replace Nature Photography (But Will Complement It)

2023 is the year in which artificial intelligence, or AI, has taken the world by storm. The absurdly fast development of the technology behind AI has forever changed the future of photography, and art by extension. AI even has photographers fear for the existence of their jobs. While it is true that AI will change photography, I don't believe it…

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveMay 25, 2023

Behind The Shot Landscape Volcano

Behind the Shot – How Spontaneity Earned Me an Award-Winning Photo

In this month's 'Behind the Shot' blog I want to tell the story behind one of my favourite images, called 'Skýjasnúningur'. I want to share that story because I feel it goes to show that even though you might be lucky with certain conditions and situations, you still need to act on it to make it happen.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveMay 5, 2023

Behind The Shot Landscape

Behind the Shot – The Quest for Mælifell

Mælifell. The name might not ring a bell to those who aren't nature photographers but I'm almost certain everyone has seen this green, almost perfectly cone-shaped, mountain.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveApril 13, 2023

Behind The Shot Icelandic Highlands Landscape

Behind the Shot – Hveradalir

The story behind one of my favourite photographs, taken all the way back in 2015, when I discovered an otherworldly landscape deep in the highlands of Iceland.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveMarch 8, 2023

Behind The Shot Iceland Landscape

Behind the Shot – Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Last week almost the entire of North of Iceland was extremely fortunate to witness polar stratospheric clouds, or nacreous clouds, for about 6 or 7 days in a row. Even though we didn't see any such clouds in Reykjavík, it did remind me of one of the most amazing photography moments I've witnessed since moving to Iceland.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveFebruary 2, 2023

Behind The Shot Iceland Landscape Northern Lights

Behind the Shot – Aurora Above The Plane Wreck

This first "Behind the Shot" photograph is a special one to me: the northern lights dancing above the (now famous) DC-3 plane wreck in Iceland. It's the photograph that started it all and lead me down the path that turned me into the professional photographer I am today.

Jeroen Van NieuwenhoveJanuary 4, 2023