Reykjanesbær
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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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We have a color coded weather warning system here in Iceland and yesterday, january 12th was one of many code-yellow days recently. A group I am in...
"Karl" The Rock in Kirkjuvogsbás. Reykjanes. Iceland
The bright dancing lights of the #aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's...
I'm not uploading images in any sort of order now, although I tend to it struck me that there really isn't any point as nobody really cares when you shot them and it only satifies your inner obsessive compulsive disorder voice telling you to post them in date order :-)
Infact was one of the very last shots from the recent Icelend visit, the amount of images I managed to get was staggering and will take ages to get through (not a bad thing)
We thought we had done for the day and the trip after shoting a mountain several hours drive away and had driven towards Keflavik with the flight home in the morning in mind, the forecast for here was cloudy and nil for the Aurora, as we neared the hotel I looked out of the window and could see the Aurora randomly kicking off over the sea, a (rather great and deserted) location was decided upon and we headed off to shoot it there.
2 hours or so here we had a really great light show, also the moon was nearly full and unobscured so it was a great tol for lighting the foreground and lighthouse, the hardest part was keeping shadows out of the shot as it was that bright, the moon is reflected in the small pool in the foreground....
Not to be without incident, (anyone who knows me knows I usually end up in some sort of scenario...) I'd made it to this spot avoiding all the very dangerous frozen rocks and deep holes, set up and all was good , I'd dropped a lens cloth on the ground, it was very dark here.. so I bent down to pick it up and immediatly put my hand into something very soft and strange feeling.... uuuurgggh! so what's the first thing you do bearing in mind you can't see it...? yes that's right have a good sniff to see whats what... it smelled absolutely disguting and I had a pretty good idea what it might be although there was no sign of any dogs.... trying not to be sick I wiped my hand on the frosty reeds nearby cleaning myself up before I got my torch out to see what I'd inadvertently scooped up ...
I can tell you I 've never been so pleased to see a rotted clump of seaweed in my life :-)
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Tourist on Valahnukar
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Sunset at the coast on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland.
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This lighthouse was near our hotel in Keflavik. We stayed in Keflavik after our trip so that my cousins could catch early morning flights back to India & Singapore. It had snowed a bit during the night and I drove to photograph the lighthouse before returning the rental car.
Shot from the geothermal area at Reykjanes Iceland
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,
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Keflavík, Iceland - ...not so many updates during the last days and weeks as I was travelling a lot - but here's a shot from Sunday night when I...
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The bright dancing lights of the #aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's...
The mud pools take form where steam from boiling geothermal reservoir water emanates and condenses and mixes with surface water. Accompanying gases...
Sunset at the coast on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland.
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Reykjanesviti is Iceland's oldest lighthouse. It serves as a landfall light for Reykjavík and Keflavík. The tower is a 31 metres (102 ft) tall...
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Most notably Stefano Cenci, Giuseppe Milo, Christian Barret and Kari Siren.