Bláskógabyggð

Is it reality or inside "Lord of the rings" world?

While walking to Gullfoss.

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After a really nice trail, we arrived at Bruarfoss fall. With a 10mm composition, we obtained an incredible and dantesque view of the fall in a rainy day.

Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015

.. Iceland's iconic double waterfall near the Ring Road

Just a perfect morning for sunrise photo, cold and clear sky, but I had som hard competition with the fish in the water!.

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Gullfoss is one of the three primary attractions of the Golden Circle, Gullfoss is the most impressive and the most appealing for landscape photographers. Unfortunately it was a heavy cloudy and strong windy day when we were there.

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Bruarfoss-II

This is probably one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Iceland, the height is not too much but its complexity, the colors of the water and its shape makes it a place worth to visit in this amazing island. My friends and I spent more than two hours taking photos here in the afternoon although the light was not specially good but it is possible to shot from different locations and to obtaining different images.

In this case I went down to the water and took this shot very close to the main stream and close to the tenths of small cascades that conform the waterfall. In this case exposure lasted 20 seconds to obtain the silk effect on the water, specially in the foreground.

Hitech 2-stop GND filter.

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This is the first interesting point while walking to Burarfoss waterfall

A view of Gullfoss fall in Iceland.

It is a composition based on three shots, which tries to catch three different stages of the eruption. I think it will be easy for people to differentiate the three stages. The first one, just when the water started to jump up was the brightest, the second one is a little less bright and the third one is clearly darker.

At the visitor center looking over the landscape, Þingvellir (Thingvellir) symbolized national park in southwest Iceland, part of the Golden Circle and just a 45-minute ride from Reykjavik.

I found Gullfoss very difficult to photograph as this consists of multiple stages of zillions of falls. When I shot this, wind was blowing at over 40 mph and the temperature was about 28 deg F.

Oxarafoss waterfalls, 'Golden Circle' - Iceland.

Iceland is divided by the Mid-Atlantic Rift; some parts of it, such as the Westfjords and Reyjavík, are on the North American tectonic plate, while others, such as Vatnajökull glacier and the East Fjords, are on the Eurasian plate. Iceland is the only place in the world where this rift is above sea-level, and nowhere can you see the edges of both plates as clearly as in Þingvellir. You are literally walking between 2 continents!

This was the first place I ever visitied in Iceland outside of the City, 3 visits ago, it was a dull overcast rainy day, no snow, and flat light, while we where there out of absolutely nothing we got treated to an incredible (but very brief ) vivid light show at sunrise which lit the entire valley, as soon as it had started it finished, and back to the dull sky again...

This trip was the first time I'd been back since and the conditions couldn't have been more different! thick snow, ice everwhere, and frequent blizzards blowing through the valley.

Once again for a very brief moment the sunlight broke out of nowhere and lit up all the valley, picking out all the details and reflecting in what was left of the (mostly frozen) river, I was in the wrong place for this shot as I didn't see it happening and had to leg it to get into position, narrowly missing the opportunity of getting a sunstar behind the cliffs, that said I'm really not complaining as I didn't think I would get any kind of golden light at all on the way up here!

For anyone who has seen the shots & videos on facebook you will know what the conditions were like as my D850 is completely covered in snow on the tripod, blizzard conditions, one of our party looked like a yeti as he was that covered in snow.

Hard work but toitally worth it, I much prefer stuff like this than straight forward shoots as you really do feel like you have worked for it.

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Dawns breaks over Þingvellir national park (pronounced Thingvellir), we had driven here in the dark and as we arrived further along the road at the main point up to the summit the weather was poor, drab light and light rain, about as bad as it could be without it actually pouring down, after a bit of an explore of the area we decided to try and get to these falls that we had seen on the way in but at the time it was too dark and we couldn't see how to get to them.

After backtracking we spotted the small track that led down to the right place and after a short hike reached the Waterfall (Oxarafoss). the weather was still pretty poor but the rain had lightened off to next to nothing so set about getting some shots, as with most waterfalls I shot in Iceland this week the first thing you notice is how much spray comes off them! even if you are nowhere near the base you are constantly wiping the lens / filters after each shot it really is difficult to get clean shots with no water spots, I've binned countless images from the trip due to it even with being very careful.

Luckily this shot was one I had hoped hadn't been ruined, and it turned out so, for about 45 seconds (maybe less) the sun appeared through the cloud and just totally transformed the scene from cold and foreboding into a magical golden scene, illuminating all the rocks with a warm glow and even a rainbow briefly appearing in the left hand side of the falls, the curious bright icy blue colour (forthcoming image) that was in the top of the falls had now dissipated - replaced with warmth, I was so lucky with this as I was already set up to take a shot when it happened, if I had been moving around I would more than likely have missed it, just after this the sun went in again and never reappeared.

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Another view of the ever present rainbow visible over the series of waterfalls at Gulfoss, in southern Iceland....

Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015

Pingvellir or Thingvellir is a site of historical, cultural and geological importance. It lies in a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It's at the northern end of Þingvallavatn, the largest natural lake in Iceland.

Alpingi, the Icelandic Parliament, was established at Pingvellir in 930 and remained there until 1798.

Iceland, September 2015.

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