The story behind that picture: "Photographing Bill Clinton". By: Thorsten Overgaard. October Last edited on March 31, Add to Flipboard Magazine. Instead of attending an event near my own town, where I could get an image of Bill Clinton on a speaker's chair with bad light, I traveled to the Faroe Islands to get a chance of getting a reasonable shot of Bill Clinton in some great nature.
I think it did. Though I didn't realize until a week later, because I was so into the other photographs I took, that I didn't notice I actually had gotten the shot that I went for. Right out of the airport the light of Faroe Islands took me. I dropped my bags in the hotel room and went straight down the hill to Torshavn city to catch the last daylight with my camera.
The next morning, I got up early with the sun to almost run down the hilltop to get more photos in the changing lights. It's an amazing place. These 18 islands in the middle of nowhere wake up in a grayish fog which then turns bluish around , and then the sun starts to break through around On sunny days the fog stays around on top of the islands but below the sun, whichβas you can imagineβhas quite an exotic fairy-tale-dreamland-look to it.
On foggy days, and rainy days, it's just fog all over the place, wet boots and wet everything. No sunshine. It starts out rainy and foggy in the morning, then at it clears up and you've got summer the rest of the day. Some days, airplanes can't land, and sometimes it goes on for a weeks or so where airplanes simply can't find the island.
Depressing, exotic, exciting, overwhelming. Depends on what you had planned. Anyway, I spend some days like this checking out the place and preparing for Clinton. As he would be staying at my hotel I was allowed to check this space quite thoroughly. Not that it offered a lot of photo ops inside or outside, but it's nice to know.
