Mýrdalshreppur
Reynisfjall is a 340 m high tuff mountain arising out of a volcanic eruption from under a glacier in the penultimate Ice Age, near the village of Vik. Alternating in an irregular manner are layers of tuff, pillow lava and columnar basalt veins and loops. Reynisdrangar stacks are a collection of 66 m high rock pillars that rise out of the sea and are of the same geological formation as Reynisfjall. On Reynisfjöru beach, very beautiful basalt formations in the south part of the mountain can be seen, and there you will find an exceedingly beautiful cave called Hálsanefshellir.
Iceland. September 2015.
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Reynisdrangar depuis la plage de Vik
Vík í Mýrdal
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Phototrip to Iceland june 2014
It was super windy at the black sand beach in Vik when I shot this image. The sand hitting my face was tough to deal with. It was a very cloudy day with some drizzle. There was no color at the scene and so ended up converting this image to B&W.
Finally, Reynisfjara stones were visible, accompanied by a great white webbing on the sea.
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As lava cools over an extended period of time, it creates incredible columns of hexagonal basalt rock that often form cliffs. Iceland has a bunch of these basalt columns along its southern shore. This was shot just outside the village of Vik. The wave ended up hitting me just below my chest and I had to wipe off the sea spray and dry my camera after this shot!!!
Panoramic view of Reynisdrangar (the Black Sea Stacks) near Vik, Iceland
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
Dyrhólaey is a tiny peninsula outside the village of Vik in Southern Iceland. Due to high wind (about 30 mph when this was shot), the waves thrash the coastline violently. Sometimes you will see a raindow for a fraction of a second. This was shot just before sun set behind the mountains. You can also see the the black lava columns of the Reynisdrangar on the top left of this image.
Finally, Reynisfjara stones were visible, accompanied by a great white webbing on the sea.
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Dramatic view of Reynisdrangar rocks from Reynisfjara Beach taken between a net of water streams. It is amazing how Black and White allows to be really creative and get intense and powerful atmospheres.
Vik Sea Stacks at Sunset.
This day was had been an absolute washout, sheet rain all day, and thick cloud, not a hope of shooting anything, at sunset it was still horrible but we walked out to the beach at Vik to try and get some dramatic weather shots of the waves around the sea stacks, after 30 mins I'd given up as the winds were whipping up all the sand and I ended curled up in a ball on the beach it was that bad, pebbles bouncing off my knuckles while holding my hood down!! errr balls to this!!
With the weather from hell seemingly never ending we retreated back inland to shoot the church up high, no sooner had we left the beach this scene just broke out of absolutely nothing! had to leg it up the hill and set up really quickly with the long lens to grab this unfolding dramatic sunset, weirdly it was the best one we had all week, you can't turn your back on anything in this Country for 5 minutes, if you do you will miss something. After this had died off the grey drabness came back again before breaking once more into a huge afterburn of purple and red (pics to follow)
Check out the 5 people stood watching it on the beach adding scale
Nikon D850 Nikon 70-200 f/4 @ 145mm f/11 IS0 64 1/2 second
No filters Fotopro T74-C tripod Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
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Finally, Reynisfjara stones were visible, accompanied by a great white webbing on the sea.
Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016
The black sand beach can be very dangerous !
Phototrip to Iceland june 2014
Church on the hill.... Vik, Iceland
Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016
Phototrip to Iceland june 2014
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Now that I've returned to New Zealand, looking back at my trip to Iceland, it's amazing how many similarities there are between the two countries...
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A village church in winter
I wanted to emphasize the wild sea around Reynisdrangar and so decided to stack several frames. Hope that you like the result! ;-)
The village of Vík with a population of 300 is the southernmost village in Iceland, located on the main ring road around 110 miles from Reykjavík. The church is built on a hill, the only place to take refuge if Katla volcano erupts and the glacier melt floods the village below.
Finally, Reynisfjara stones were visible, accompanied by a great white webbing on the sea.
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Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016
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La grotte de Maître Yoda
Phototrip to Iceland, june 2014
Hand held pano of a horizontal basalt column, with Basalt Peaks (Reynisdranger) and a black, volcanic beach (Reynisfjara) in the distance. This was captured near Vik, in Southern Iceland...
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Most notably Christian Barret, Fer_SG, Jiri Hajek, Henk Verheyen, Quentin 'Q' Thompson, Jean François Bonachera, David ruiz luna and Giuseppe Milo.