{"id":852011,"date":"2026-09-18T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852011\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:36:49","slug":"photographer-hides-behind-a-rock-as-400-wild-reindeer-come-running-toward-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852011\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Hides Behind A Rock As 400 Wild Reindeer Come Running Toward Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a nature photographer and wilderness guide for Geo Travel Iceland<\/a>, Anton Freyr Birgisson has had plenty of encounters with the animals who call the island nation home. But few have been quite as memorable as this one.<\/p>\n

Recently, Birgisson tracked a large herd of wild reindeer<\/a> through a remote part of northern Iceland, hoping to photograph them from afar. There were about 400 reindeer in all, and Birgisson was careful to keep his distance.<\/p>\n

Then, without warning, the entire herd began moving in his direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were suddenly spooked by something and came running toward me,\u201d Birgisson told The Dodo. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to spook them, so I hid behind a rock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Birgisson had seen reindeer up close from a car and snowmobile, he had never experienced anything like this on foot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredible. A privilege,\u201d Birgission said. \u201cOne of the calves came and smelled me. But I felt they were aware of me, but perhaps not fully, as I was completely still. They were incredibly calm and majestic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Birgission called it his \u201ctop wilderness moment\u201d of the year.<\/p>\n

After about 20 minutes of calmly grazing close to Birgission, the herd continued on their way \u2014 leaving behind an unforgettable memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Iceland is a place where real wilderness exists, and I love experiencing it with guests from all over the world,\u201d Birgission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a nature photographer and wilderness guide for Geo Travel Iceland, Anton Freyr Birgisson has had plenty of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,616,229,88,18868,359925,155208,615,4798,613],"class_list":["post-852011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-daily-dodo","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-iceland","tag-iceland-wildlife","tag-reindeer","tag-standard","tag-stephen-messenger","tag-the-dodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}