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Seasonal Sentinels

November, September, and February. Three shots of the same mountains, three different moods.

These memorable peaks are visible from the main ringroad (route 1) and I snapped them during different visits, years apart.

Akrafjall (1151m) and Sólheimafjall (1171m) in Blönduhlíðarfjöll near Varmahlíð in Skagafjörður, north-western #Iceland.

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Two stately mountains, lit from behind the viewpoint. The wide peaks are almost horizontal, and their flanks are softly curved displaying their glacial origin. To reinforce this, a glacier has cut between them at some time before disappearing, and has left a scooped valley at almost the central point. In this shot, their sides are mostly snow-covered with dark rock showing through where the wind has scoured the ice away. The rest of the landscape around is snowy and frozen. The sky is almost completely full of snow cloud, solid and yellow-grey. Two photographers are visible in the foreground with their backs to the viewer.
The same two mountains, taken from slightly nearer than the first shot. This time the ground is free from snow and is covered in golden vegetation, suggesting autumn. The lower slopes of the two mountains are touched by sunlight from the right, and clouds have created shadow across the flat tops of the peaks. The bare rock is dark grey, and a sprinkle of snow is visible on the tops. The sky is cloudy again but with some clearer patches.
The two mountains again, this time taken from the tarmac road leading towards them. The peaks have more snow across them, but some dark rock is still visible and the shadows show that the light is from the right. The curved valley between them is much clearer in this shot. It has a river cutting through from the base of the valley and into the foreground on the right. The roadsides are brown vegetation with some farm animals - probably horses - grazing in a field on the left. The sky is clear cyan until just above the mountain tops, where some cloud is sitting.
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Midnight Sun

"Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:
Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
And as a bed I'll take them, and there lie"
- #ShakespeareSunday, Comedy of Errors

July, 9:30pm: Looking north across Breidafjördur.

The sky didn't fully darken while we were there, it turned to a lovely, silvery twilight. Blue sky or Blue Hour, there wasn't much between.

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Home Of The Winds

February, and a farm nestles at the foot of Hlíðarfjall. This 1116m/3660ft high mountain is better known from the other side as it stands above Akureyri, and contains the ski slopes.

Vindheimar in Þelamörk, north-eastern #Iceland.

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Touch The Sky

A stormy morning drive through the valley, the lowering sky looming closely overhead.

Skáldstaðafjall (1029m) in Eyjafjarðarsveit, north-eastern #Iceland.

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Horses On A Hill

Iceland in February, very beautiful but with unpredictable weather. We never travel without a change of warm and dry clothes, plenty of water and a high calorie snack. This was the tail-end of a strong wind storm, and we were glad to see it finish.

Vatnsdalsfjall (882m) in Húnavatnshreppur, north-western #Iceland.

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#SilentSunday

"His qualities were beauteous as his form,
For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;
Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,
When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Lover's Complaint

A sparsely inhabited fjord on a still summer's day.

Kollafjörður, Reykhólahreppur, Westfjords of NW #Iceland.

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Snow Dome

November: A shot from a plane flying at 6500m between Reykjavik to Akureyri. The accumulation of snowflakes on the top of Hrútfell (1396m) eventually flows as part of a glacier - Hrútfellsjökull.

The other mountains are Innra-Sandfell and Femra-Sandfell. Bláskógabyggð in the western Central Highlands of #Iceland.

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Glacial Reflection

A sunset boat ride across Fjallsárlón lagoon, towards the snout of Fjallsjökull glacier.

The mountain on the left is Ærfjall (407m/1335ft) and the hook-shaped tongue on the left is Hrútárjökull - the 'Ram Glacier'.

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Ox Valley

February: Crossing the Tröllaskagi peninsular on a beautifully crisp day. The main ring-road, Route 1, passes between multiple 1000+ metre high mountains as it winds between Skagafjörður and Eyjafjörður in the north of #Iceland.

I particularly love this spot, dropping down into Öxnadalur from Krókárdalur, but I'd never seen the road picked out so clearly before.

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Glacial Motion

Svínafellsjökull ("Pig Mountain Glacier") in the midday sunshine, farm buildings at its foot lending scale.

The dark lobe near ground level at the snout is from a landslide - the glacier shrinkage has left the side walls dangerously unsupported, and the collapse is accelerating the melt of the ice beneath.

October, Hornafjörður in south-eastern #Iceland.

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Sunset Moonrise

4pm and the sun is beginning to set in the west-southwest. The semi-frozen fjord waters are partly reflecting the cyan sky, and parts of the opposite bank are picking up the late sunlight.

February: Hrútafjörður in north-western #Iceland.

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