Hellissandur

We waited a long time for sunrise, but it did not come. On the way back to the campsite, we saw red and purple from distance. It was Reyniskirkja Church and lupins flower field that caught our eyes.

The image was created by focus stacking.

Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016

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Almost all lighthouses we saw in Iceland were painted in Yellow-Orange color and the Skalasnagi Lighthouse Near Hellissandur in the western tip of Snæfellsnes peninsula is no exception. It is surrounded by a huge lava field and fabulous rock formations.

Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016

Todays challenge - try and say that after a few beers...or even minus the beer... it was really easy to type, not like I went to goople maps and copied and pasted the place name off there, oh no, not me.

This beautiful scene with the church taking center stage is just outside Olafsvik on the Snafellsness peninsula we stopped here for a while as the light was so good, numerous possibilities for shooting and I came away with quite a few different shots, I couldn't resist a pano of the scene though to give you some idea of the surroundings of the Church, I'm not sure who comes here (apart from the other house) but it must be a long trek !

The exif says I shot this at 2:30 in the afternoon, at this time of year in Iceland you only get around 4-5 hours of sunlight, which doesn't sound much at all, but what the sunlight guides don't say is that it is bascailly golden hour for all of that time as the sun is that low you can get gorgeous pastel soft light right throughout the 'day' (as long as the clouds play ball and don't kill the sun off).

6 shot pano 1/30th.

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Icelandic turf houses were the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone, and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities. This on is in the village of Hellissandur in Snaefellsnes peninsula. Notice along the left edge the 1350' communication antenna which is the highest in Western Europe. The structure was built by US army during the cold war. Today the antenna is used by Iceland national broadcast company.