If often rolled my eyes back, when hearing the phrase, “suffering for my art” ! Why would you have to, and does it automatically award merit to the final image, probably not. Possibly the phrase should add “because of”, well yes I would agree, and I use the image here as proof.
It was a cold morning (-16°.C ) as I broke off the main road and carelly navigated a 25mile ice covered dirt track to Aldeyjufoss, from that point on your venturing into the interior highlands. The sight is a wonder to behold! At 60ft high, freezing waters cascade through large icy crown spreading like a webbed hand over the lake below. Skirted by iced basalt columns creating a focus to the whole scene.
To be honest my fingers hurt for 2 hours (shutter finger for which a glove had to be removed)! But I don’t recall the pain, as much as I do the moment of capture.