I’ve retouched one of my older photos from Iceland of this cool horse near a fjord. I’ve been working at night on my next tutorial, which should be complete by Saturday this week. Below is an example of a fairly heavy but moody treatment.
Here you can see the North American Plate on the right and the Eurasion Plate on the left — both pulling apart from one another. This is in Thingvellir and the coolest example of plate tectonics I have ever seen. Before I saw this, I thought plate tectonics was just a silly “theory” like “evolution” and “opposable thumbs”.
This is also a big reason there is so much geothermal activity in Iceland - the opposable thumb bit.
It was bitter cold at the harbor in Reykjavik. Burly Icelandic fishermen looked at me suspiciously as I walked around with my camera and ipod through the ice and carp skeletons to find some interesting things…
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I arrived just as night was falling and I was trying to find my way to a remote hotel in the countryside. I stayed at the church for a while, taking pictures of the structure and the graveyard. There was an evening mist bordering on snow falling. It was all a surreal and calming experience.
The steamy geothermal activity around Iceland can sometimes create the fine green carpets across the rolling hills.
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On the edge of a fjord in Northern Iceland, I found this roadside farm with a nice view across the water of the mountains and the sunset. I think I had driven about 2 hours without seeing another human to find this place… of course I could have stopped almost anywhere for an equally pastoral scene!
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As I was leaving a network of jagged roads through some mountains at the end of a fjord, I emerged out into this Icelandic fertile crescent of sorts. There were tiny farms all over the countryside and they looked very nice while the sun was setting, so I grabbed this shot to remember it!
I was driving through the wilds of Iceland when a sudden storm started ripping across the plains for the mountains. There was a low rumble as I stood in the middle of this tundra to grab this one.
Thank God I had my gloves on because it was freakin cold. Actually I don’t know if God had anything to do with it. It was mostly REI that I have to thank. But this picture was much more interesting than one of REI.
I had a long lonely weekend in Iceland, so I took my rental Jeep out into the wild. I drove all over the country from dawn till dusk seeing what I could find. The sky and landscape was an ever changing palette of colors and clouds.
The sun is so low on the horizon during the winter that it is almost like a 5-hour sunrise followed by a 5-hour sunset. I drove up and down one of these highways to the next, listening to all kinds of strange and eclectic music on my iPod, occasionally jumping out to take a shot of something like this… it was a perfect weekend.
In the distance, you can see the snowy mountains which always seem to be just a few songs away.
I drove the long way from Akureyri to Reykjavik and took way too much time going down side roads to take pictures, but it always paid off…
This picture was taken before I stopped for the night in Stadarskali, a very lonely place where I think I was the only guest.
This lighthouse is directly across the fjord from Akureyri, which is just a quick and slightly chilly swim away.
I walked around this church a few times to get the right angle… and both times around I stepped into the same mega snowdrift. I think it happened the second time because I cursed the first.
