Vík

Reynisdrangar depuis la plage de Vik

I wanted to emphasize the wild sea around Reynisdrangar and so decided to stack several frames. Hope that you like the result! ;-)

Church on the hill.... Vik, Iceland

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

Lots more images from this trip can be found on my website here - updating regularly

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.

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.

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Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016

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Vik: Reynisdrangar Seastacks.

A village church in winter

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My early morning take on Vik Church, Iceland.

I've cloned a little clutter and a flag pole out of the shot, but I think this makes for a much cleaner, visually appealing image.

ISO 400 due to wind making sharp shots difficult at slow shutter speeds.

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