{"id":6983,"date":"2022-09-10T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/it-was-10-in-the-air-but-nearly-40-degrees-in-the-water-magali-chesnels-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T07:37:16","slug":"it-was-10-in-the-air-but-nearly-40-degrees-in-the-water-magali-chesnels-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/it-was-10-in-the-air-but-nearly-40-degrees-in-the-water-magali-chesnels-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was -10 in the air, but nearly 40 degrees in the water\u2019: Magali Chesnel\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French photographer on the joys \u2013 and difficulties \u2013 of taking pictures in Iceland\u2019s Blue Lagoon<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Magali Chesnel was on her flight back to Geneva that she figured out why the people she\u2019d seen swimming earlier that day had been wearing bin bags on their heads. After a week of solo travel around the south of Iceland<\/a>, the French photographer had spent the morning at the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, just a short drive from the airport. Returning home, she realised her hair had turned coarse and brittle from the silica in the pools. \u201cIf you ever visit, use hair conditioner! Or a garbage bag!\u201d she warns.<\/p>\n

While she expected the shots she took of the bag-wearing bathers to be her favourites, it was actually this one that came out best. The six Icelandic teenage boys were laughing, chatting and drinking ice-cold slushies in 38C water in a scene that later reminded her of Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s The Last Supper<\/a>. \u201cI studied art when I was younger. I like my photos to have an element of confusion; are they a photograph or a painting?\u201d Chesnel says.<\/p>\n

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\nThe French photographer on the joys \u2013 and difficulties \u2013 of taking pictures in Iceland\u2019s Blue Lagoon
\nIt wasn\u2019t until Magali Chesnel was on her flight back to Geneva that she figured out why the people she\u2019d seen swimming earlier that day had been wearing bin bags on their heads. After a week of solo travel around the south of Iceland, the French photographer had spent the morning at the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, just a short drive from the airport. Returning home, she realised her hair had turned coarse and brittle from the silica in the pools. \u201cIf you ever visit, use hair conditioner! Or a garbage bag!\u201d she warns.
\nWhile she expected the shots she took of the bag-wearing bathers to be her favourites, it was actually this one that came out best. The six Icelandic teenage boys were laughing, chatting and drinking ice-cold slushies in 38C water in a scene that later reminded her of Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s The Last Supper. \u201cI studied art when I was younger. I like my photos to have an element of confusion; are they a photograph or a painting?\u201d Chesnel says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French photographer on the joys \u2013 and difficulties \u2013 of taking pictures in Iceland\u2019s Blue Lagoon It wasn\u2019t until Magali Chesnel was on her flight back to Geneva that she figured out why the people she\u2019d seen swimming earlier that day had been wearing bin bags on their heads. After a week of solo …<\/p>\n

\u2018It was -10 in the air, but nearly 40 degrees in the water\u2019: Magali Chesnel\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}