Southern Peninsula

Hólmbergsviti Lighthouse
by MURALI NARAYANAN

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.

Formation of new landscape
by Halldor Jonsson

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.

Brimketill
by Halldor Jonsson

This "swimming pool" has been crafted in the lava cliffs by the Atlantic ocean waves through thousunds of years.

Hólmbergsviti Lighthouse
by Pete Rowbottom

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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Valahnúkamöl
by Pete Rowbottom

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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Valahnúkamöl
by David ruiz luna

REYKJANES Fantastic sunset in this marvelous area of southwest Iceland.

Southwest Iceland March 2017

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Gardur
by Christian Barret

Power station
by Kari Siren

Two shots stitched together

Iceland 2015 Keflavik airport
by Christian Barret

Roadtrip in Iceland summer 2015 - Roadtrip en Islande été 2015