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Reykjanesskagi is a stunning peninsula located in southwestern Iceland, known for its rugged coastline, geothermal activity, and diverse wildlife. This area is a paradise for photographers, offering a plethora of breathtaking landscapes and unique natural phenomena to capture. From the iconic lighthouse at Reykjanesviti to the bubbling mud pools at Gunnuhver, there are plenty of photography locations to explore. The peninsula is also home to the famous Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa with milky blue waters that make for a stunning backdrop.
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.
The third day of the new eruption at Geldingadalir Iceland and the first fissure that opened up. Today this fissure is gone, overtaken by other fissure on the other side of this one which groove bigger and is today spewing 500 feet into the air.
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
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The 26' tall lighthouse built in 1928 is just outside the village of Grindavik in the Southern Peninsula.
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You can come up here and spend £40.00 bathing in this stuff. but I just got this little bit that was visible from the road.
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This "swimming pool" has been crafted in the lava cliffs by the Atlantic ocean waves through thousunds of years.
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 :-)
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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Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
Two shots stitched together
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
Iceland
Not far from Reykjavík, a house haunted sits and enjoys the northern lights, a spectacular sight, for both the living and the dead.
I like this particular view of the Garður Lighthouse because beach creates a nice leading lines towards the Lighthouse. And the photographer standing in front of the lighthouse adds a nice scale to the whole composition.
Getting there: The beach is just a few steps from the lighthouse parking.
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.
Shot from the geothermal area at Reykjanes Iceland
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
¡Qué ansioso estaba por comenzar este álbum! Islandia en invierno. Este fue mi primer viaje fotográfico, y lo hice con Fran Llano y Foto Earth Travel. Nunca había antes había hecho un viaje de esta forma. Todo fue novedoso: contacté con Fran Llano a través de Facebook, todas las gestiones fueron por internet. No sabía ni que me iba a encontrar, ni con qué tipo de gente iba a compartir el viaje. Tampoco sabía el nivel de fotografía del resto del grupo. Bueno, sabía el mío y no era muy bueno. Con todo, me embarqué en esta aventura y el resultado fue un gran viaje, que recuerdo con mucha estima. A parte de aprender mucho en fotografía y conseguir hacer fotos a las Auroras Boreales (todo un reto); hice muy buenos amigos que aún conservo y con los que aun quedo de vez en cuando para hacer salidas fotográficas. Por supuesto, este no iba a ser el último viaje fotográfico después de la gran experiencia. Espero que os guste igual que lo disfruté yo.
How eager I was to start this album! Iceland in winter. This was my first photography trip, and I did it with Fran Llano and Foto Earth Travel. I had never made a trip like this before. Everything was new: I contacted with Fran Llano through Facebook, all the procedures were online. I did not know what I was going to find, or what kind of people I was going to share the journey with. I also didn't know the photography level of the rest of the group. Well, it tasted mine and it wasn't very good. All in all, I embarked on this adventure and the result was a great journey, which I remember with great esteem. Apart from learning a lot in photography and getting to take photos of the Northern Lights (quite a challenge); I made very good friends that I still have and with whom I still meet from time to time to do photographic outings. Of course, this was not going to be the last photography trip after the great experience. I hope you like it just as I enjoyed it.
Iceland. March 2017
8 vertical handheld shots stitched together
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015
Hvalsneskirkja Stone Church at Reykjanes - Iceland If you want to join me on a day tour or one of our private photography adventures in Iceland, feel...
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Reykjanesskagi!
Most notably Christian Barret, Jiri Hajek, Giuseppe Milo, Kari Siren, Stefano Cenci and David ruiz luna.