About me

My name is Mads Peter Iversen, I live in Denmark, my interest for photography exploded in 2011, and I've been working as a full-time landscape photographer since 2016. I am educated schoolteacher with a master's degree in educational philosophy. After trying out other photography genres, such as headshot photography and commercial videography, I've settled on fine art landscape pictures. Besides landscape photography I also run a YouTube channel focused on the educational side of landscape photography. My experience with videography and video editing goes back to 2002.

I find my inspiration all over the world but I'm especially drawn to the nordic, cold, and harsh yet stunningly beautiful nature.

I'm a child of the postmodern era and have grown up with action movies such as Armageddon, The Rock, and Batman, fantasy movies such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Avatar, and Game of Thrones, and computer games such as Warcraft and Diablo. All of these influence my photography heavily. And then... in the back of my head roams the Scandinavian minimalism, which pops up on different occasions. If you're in doubt about what I mean, check out my YouTube.

Since 2019 I've developed a drive to photograph and document my local environment even more than before. This has resulted in my portfolio of photos from Denmark has exploded.

I love to be in nature and photograph many different landscapes, which results in my photos being very varied. Everything from magical Milky Way night photos, over epic vistas, to calm and atmospheric forest scenes. It's the full spectrum all the way from the relaxing and peaceful over the epic awe and wonder to the dramatic and moody.

I also shoot to edit. The camera cannot capture "reality" as it appears in front of us, so half the work is done in the editing phase, where the pictures come to life and where the mood I'm in influences the final photo.

As I have centered my work around education you will find a ton of information on my homepage and YouTube channel, that you can use to improve your own landscape photography. My educational philosophy is to aim you with a set of tools and thoughts you can use in your photography journey. I do not want to tell you how to make photos, I want to give you my knowledge as for you to be an independent artist.

My "Háifoss sunrise" photo went viral on Instagram and was featured in the following accounts:

awesome.earth, 3.4m followers, 60000+ likes

theglobewanderer, 2,1m followers, 41000+ likes

awesome.photographers, 1,8m followers, 22000+ likes

discoverglobe, 1,4m followers, 25000 likes

awesomeglobe, 1,3m followers, 27000+ likes

awesome.pix, 1,3m followers, 19000+ likes

wow_planet, 1,1m followers, 15000+ likes

instagood, 856k followers, 12000+ likes

awesomedreamplaces, 850k followers, 12000+ likes

nat.geography, 761k followers, 13000+ likes

wonderful.globe, 746k followers, 8000+ likes

discover.vacations, 303k followers, 6000+ likes

- and many more!

Grand Jury Winner in "Long Exposure Views Photo Contest" featured by ViewBug!

“This image caught my eye and spoke to me in so many dimensions. I enjoy that the photographer has done a wonderful job of taking the viewers eye and masterfully leads it around and through this image. The black sand in the foreground does not allow the viewers eye to leave the composition. At the same time the photographer uses a shutter speed that is not too long nor too short creating just the right amount of motion in the water. The composition allows for the viewer to remain in the image by not cutting any of the rocks that our eyes enjoy as we drift around from foreground to background. The detail in the cool tonality of the highlights and shadows led me to select this images as the Grand prize winner!” – Ken Sklute

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