I did not save the picture of the pagoda, so this guide is text only. First I opened up the picture of the pagoda and the courtyard as layers in gimp, with the courtyard on top. Then I set the courtyard layer to "screen" in blending options and viola. There are more intrinsic ways to this, using masks and what not, but this worked well enough for me.

A bit grainy, but what can ya do?

turns out the area between Mývatn and Egilsstaðir is perfect to take pictures of nothing.

We went through the desolated landscape of the North/East of Iceland on the way to Egilsstaðir. It was perfect to do some high key photography.

Who fell in love with his reflection. I am playing with light painting at the moment, using the last dark nights until 24h sun. These are 10 pictures made with a mirror, a flashlight and a tripod at 70mm/ƒ/11/1s/ISO 100. I then combined them in GIMP to create the last image.



How to edit:
Open the pictures into GIMP as layers and open "windows"-> "layers". Use the "lighten only" mode for all layers except the base layer.
To make the gif I right clicked on a layer and selected "new from visible". I moved the new layer on top (the gif animates from bottom to top) and specified in the layer names the delay between frames eg: "Layer 1 (500ms)". I set the first (combined) image with a longer delay (2000ms). Export as gif and make sure not to check "Use delay entered above for all frames" in the dialogue.