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Canyon Cascade

There are some lovely and quite famous valleys in southern #Iceland, this one is unusual because the entrance is blocked by a large, dome-shaped rock.
Stjรณrnargljรบfur (๐™Ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ๐™–๐™ฌ๐™ฃ-๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ-๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ-๐˜ท๐˜ณ๐˜ณ) gulley also contains a river and its waters cascade beautifully over this block.

Stjรณrnarfoss waterfall (49 ft/15 m high) in Skaftรกrhreppur. The guy in the shot is my partner!

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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 Hrรบtfell (1396m) eventually flows as part of a glacier - Hrรบtfellsjรถkull.

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

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Glacial Reflection

A sunset boat ride across Fjallsรกrlรณn lagoon, towards the snout of Fjallsjรถkull glacier.

The mountain on the left is ร†rfjall (407m/1335ft) and the hook-shaped tongue on the left is Hrรบtรกrjรถkull - the 'Ram Glacier'.

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Ox Valley

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

I particularly love this spot, dropping down into ร–xnadalur from Krรณkรกrdalur, but I'd never seen the road picked out so clearly before.

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Glacial Motion

Svรญnafellsjรถkull ("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, Hornafjรถrรฐur 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: Hrรบtafjรถrรฐur in north-western #Iceland.

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Forked Tongue

October: Hjรกlparfoss in its autumn colours.

Literally the "Help Waterfall" because travelling by horse across the Highlands via Sprengisandur was long and difficult, and this was one of the first vegetated areas they reached to water and graze their horses.

The geology surrounding the falls is fascinating, the eruptions of nearby Hekla have left beautifully twisted basalt columns all around.

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Harbouring Good Feelings

Early afternoon in late October, and a few fishing boats are docked at the piers.

Seyรฐisfjรถrรฐur in eastern #Iceland.

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Misty Distance

February: Looking across Barmahraun lava field towards Reyรฐarbarmur (652m/2140ft) and Kรกlfstindar (877m/2877ft), Blรกskรณgabyggรฐ in western #Iceland.

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Sunset Flight

February: A plane crosses Blรกfjรถll above a cloud bank painted pastel peach and orange by the setting sun.

Reykjanes peninsula in south-western #Iceland.

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Floating Islands

July: This is Hvalfjรถrรฐur* in western #Iceland. What looks like an island in the fjord is actually a spit of land curving away from the viewpoint.

In the background is Skarรฐsheiรฐi mountain range, with Skarรฐshyrna on the left.

* โ‰ˆ๐™Œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ก๐™ก-๐˜ง๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ-๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ

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The Little Bridge

Traffic crosses the Andakรญlsรก river towards the hills of Brekkufjall, with Skarรฐsheiรฐi mountain range beyond.

August, Skorradalshreppur in western #Iceland.

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Cloaked

September, and the vog from an eruption in a different part of #Iceland is causing some unusual atmospheric conditions around the island nation.
In this one, sunbeams are being intensified by the gaseous haze high above.

Hekla in รžjรณrsรกrdalur.

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"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Henry VI, Part II

Cloud gathers in รžverรกrdalur valley, at the foot of Tungufjall mountain in Skagafjรถrรฐur, north-western #Iceland.

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