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Tourist on Valahnukar
Explore #5 31/03/20
Looking for images to post today and I thought this seems really relevant at the moment seeing as we are sadly living within something of a fractured society at the moment. Thoughts with you all.
Anyway onto a more cheerier outlook! This is Valahnúkamöl near Raykjaness on the Coast of Iceland, the gnarly sea stacks somehow survive here despite getting absolutely hammered by some of the most powerful weather I've ever experienced anywhere.
A year or so I came here and it was only just possible to get out of the car without having the doors ripped off by the wind, so I wasn't able to get any images, in fact standing up was a challenge in itself!!
So for a year it's bothered me as I was blown away (pardon the pun) by the place, this time we visited finally on the last day of the trip and although there was a windy it wasn't anywhere near as bad as the last visit so the tripod could go up, despite it making your eyes pour everytime you looked through the viewfinder it was still shootable so another location was finally ticked off, for a few brief moments a lone person stood on the edge of the sea cliff (brave) and I was in a bit of a panic to make sure I got him or her in my shot for the scale.
The temptation here was to go right to the edge and shoot the stacks with crazy waves (which I did later) but as foreground options go I think this is one of my favourites in a long while as it's just so different, and shows how the basalt has literally fractured away, hence the title.
Hope you're all doing well out there, stay safe.
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The jagged sea stacks at Valahnúkamöl near Raykjaness on the Coast of Iceland are the setting for what seems to be a rather extreme selfie being taken on the cliff edge! it was windy far below so lord only knows what it was like up there!
I wanted these 2 in my scene but they were moving around so it was never going to happen with a shutter speed of 1 second, seeing what they were about to do I just had to wait for the exact moment they were staying still for their selfie to get them nice and sharp in the scene, which thankfully worked a treat, and to my mind they are a great scale addition to this wild scene.
The couple didn't last long up there after they had got their selfie! The swell in the sea here was nuts, some of the waves would actually come half way up that huge cliff face, there must be literally tonnes of water pounding onto the shorline here at times.
If you look at the sea stacks you can see where the sea has eroded them around the edges, but all the rugged intricate details have been left alone in the center where the sea doesn't get to them.
It was really windy here as you can sea with the waves crashing in onto the rocks,
Have a good zoom in on large on this one.
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