The 100 Day Project #29

The Disparity of Detifoss

Detifoss, Iceland, 2025

The 100 Day Project, Day 29

This is Dettifoss — the most powerful waterfall in Europe, located in northern Iceland. I made this photograph with my sweet vintage Yashica, a medium format film camera that travels with me often. I love it because it forces me to slow down, to compose, to be intentional about every image I see before I make it. Working in film is a sublime way to be a photographer.

Look closely and you will notice the disparity of Detifoss. The foreground is verdant and moss-covered, lush with life. Across the falls, the landscape is barren and austere. Same waterfall. Same sky. The difference is simply where the mist lands. The prevailing winds choose a direction, and what lies in the path of water has a chance to thrive.

We are like this too. The spaces we place ourselves in, the people we surround ourselves with — they determine so much of what we receive. What takes root. What grows. Not through grand decisions alone, but through the quieter, more persistent question of proximity.

I composed this photograph to include four distinct layers — the moss-covered cliffs in the foreground, the roaring falls, the rock face carved by eons of river erosion, and the soft gray clouds blanketing it all. I find myself drawn to the delicate balance of it all.

The years of our lives work similarly, the layers crafted by the spaces and people we choose to rush past or push up against. Patience and persistence shape us all.

About the 100 Day Project: A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every single day for 100 days. I'm joining creatives around the world, and I'm excited to bring you along. Each day I'll be sharing one of my photos — some recent, some old, and some from my current project — along with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why I love it.