This beautiful photo was taken in Iceland a few months ago. Needless to say I am in love with this magnificent country and look forward to many return trips. It is photo rich as we would say. This is one of hundreds of waterfalls around Iceland. I like this just because it has a different shape than others. The valley in the background also adds to it.
I had the opportunity to photograph around Iceland on two visits there this year. One area I visited with my guide Daniel Bergman was a Geo-Thermal field. It was a different kind of place. First is smelled like a million hard boiled eggs. Then there were hundreds of holes in the ground with bubbling and boiling water. This water was obviously very hot and you needed extreme care while shooting in the area as not to fall in a hole and get burned. This image was shot looking at one of these areas but what makes it is all the steam coming off similar places in the background. This was shot with the Phase One P65+.
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Getting in touch with nature and its natural wonders can be a very enlightening and relaxing experience. And there is probably nothing in nature more breathtaking than a waterfall. One such natural wonder is the Svartifoss (can you say it) waterfall, also known as the black fall. The water falls from a height of about 20 meters (60 feet) and is located in a horseshoe shaped gorge filled with dark basalt columns. Svartifoss waterfall is located in Skaftafell National Park, in the South of Iceland. This waterfall is famous for the dark columns shaped like a hexagon; these basalt columns are what give the fall its name. They were formed from lava that slowly cooled down and crystallized in the process. The bottom of the fall is full of sharp rocks resulting from falling column sections from the back of the fall. The rate that these sections break off is faster than water can wear down the sharp edges that is why the sharp rocks seem to never disappear. The place is also surrounded by blooming wildflowers which gives it a very serene quality.
Look for more Iceland Waterfalls and landscapes as well as a soon to be published gallery on my website.
Iceland is amazing. It’s a small country and island with stunning beauty. It is an island that where the land itself lives and breaths. There are geo-thermal areas, volcanos, glaciers, waterfalls and overwhelming vistas. This past summer I was leader for a Phase One PODAS workshop there and returned from the trip a ton of great images. I’ll be sharing them here as time goes on. Today’s image was shot at Jökulsárlón a Glacier Lagoon formed when the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier began to recede. Icebergs calf off of the glacier and float in this lagoon eventually being washed out to sea. Many of those end up on a black sand beach. More on that in another post. This shot just happened in one of those amazing moments. I love the beam of sunlight and the blue of the icebergs. Hope you enjoy it too. Photographed with a Phase One P65+ and 150mm lens.