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Blue Shadows

Mid-February and another lovely cold but clear day in north-western #iceland

This is Reykjafoss at just after midday, the sunlight almost from the south hardly warming its frozen cascades.

A beautiful and peaceful place.

When I took this shot it was my partner's birthday and mine would be tomorrow, so we're celebrating our special days with a long and relaxed holiday driving around Iceland.

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#WaterfallWednesday #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a landscape. In the centre of the shot is a pretty waterfall with multiple small drops, most of them seemingly completely frozen. In reality the water is still flowing beneath the ice but that isn't apparent from this shot. The surrounding rock surface is honey-coloured, the vegetation is brown and withered and the horizontal surfaces are covered in snow. The low light from the left is casting long shadows across the falls making the water and ice seem blue, and the brown rock almost black.
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Wilderness

A clear day in mid-November and we're crossing Jökuldalsheiði.

The Central Highland of #Iceland covers most of the interior of the country. It's situated primarily above 300 meters (1000 feet) and is uninhabitable. The soil is mostly volcanic ash, the rivers don't have bridges, and the terrain is filled with basalt mountains and lava fields.

It's also extremely beautiful, albeit in a desolate way. No wonder NASA trained astronauts here.

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#MountainsMonday #DailyPhoto

A photo of a landscape under an almost completely clear cyan sky. On the horizon is a range of bare mountains, steep-sided brown rock. The foreground is an undulating plain of brown dirt, covered in scattered rocks sized from gravel to boulders. From bottom centre to middle right of the shot, a dirt road lined on one side by snow-poles is snaking ahead and disappearing over a rise. Beyond it, flat ground can be glimpsed.
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May The Road Rise Up To Meet You

Late November, and the sunlight is breaking through the snow clouds ahead of us.
It's going to be another beautiful day.

Gilsárdalur valley, leading towards Miðaftanshnjúkur (919m/3015ft) and Örnólfsfjall (891m/2923ft.)
Fáskrúðsfjörður in Fjarðabyggð, eastern #Iceland.

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#SilentSunday #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A snow scene, viewed from inside a car on an icy road that is about to crest a small hill. There's a fence line following the side of the road for a short distance and on the left is a rocky hillside. Both sides of the road are lined by tall snow-poles. The sky is grey and full of heavy cloud, but there is sunlight from the left of the shot. Ahead are two prominent mountain peaks with a long glacial valley curving down, with a water-cut gorge between them. It almost looks as if the road continues over the hill and up the side of the mountain.
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Based on more messages on social media, people were just as overwhelmed as I was… Those colours are absolutely amazing😍

The white lights on the right of the church are a group photographers in the wild. 😃 I found out that you can approach them and they are really friendly.

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Where do I start. A gate to the church, church in the background, both almost black. The lights from the sky shooting downwards are red and yellow, the wave from left to right is green, . There are some clouds, and a lot of white dots (stars).
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Summer And Winter

Rjúkandi, a lovely and very accessible waterfall by the side of Route 1, the main ring road around the country.

Múlaþing in eastern #Iceland, approaching the town of Egilsstaðir.

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#TravelThursday #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a white waterfall, dropping down a honey-coloured rockface. Strong sunlight from the left is casting shadows across the multiple steps along the way down. The sky above is clear cyan.
A photo of a waterfall, dropping down an ice-covered rockface. The scene doesn't display any light source although the sky above seems to be clear cyan. Deep snow is piled up on either side of the cascade.
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A drone view shows Oskjuvatn, a caldera lake created during the 1875 eruption of the Askja volcano, in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
A general view shows Jokulsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
A view shows Fjallsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
A drone view shows the Viti crater at the Askja volcano in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
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Land of fire & ice

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A drone view shows craters from the 1961 eruption of the Askja volcano in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
A drone view shows Skaftafellsjokull, an outlet glacier of the Vatnajokull ice cap, in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Bergy bits, chunks of ice broken free of a large ice body, float in the waters of Jokulsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
A block of ice melts at Diamond Beach, near Jokulsarlon, a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland, August 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
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Skylight

Patiently we waited in the cold and blustery darkness, hoping that the clouds didn't increase, hoping that the forecast was accurate, hoping that we were lucky.
The green lady didn't disappoint us.

The #aurora dances above Lómagnúpur mountain and the black sands of Skeiðarársandur - the largest outwash plain in the world - in south-eastern #Iceland.

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#AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a bleak landscape cut by water into stripes of channels. On the horizon is the dark silhouette of a craggy mountain. The sky above it is mostly clear but with some small clouds, and a few stars are visible. A bright green beam is just above the mountain, and more can be seen nearer to the viewer and higher in the sky. The ground surface is tinged slightly green by the brightness of the aurora.
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Sunbeams

A dreary July day in the south-east of #Iceland. It's been drizzling and raining and, at 19:30 as the sun was going down, some small breaks appeared in the clouds.

What seemed to be a fruitless day for photography was crowned by a lovely display of sunbeams, highlighting Vatnajökull and its glacier tongues, and piercing the ground level mists gathering around the peaks.

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#MondayMotivation #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of mountains, with the top of a wide glacier visible between them. The foreground is a dark surface, and a car can be seen travelling into the frame from the left. The sky is overcast and some mist has gathered over the lower slopes, hiding large parts of the glacier tongues. Just left of top centre, a window has opened in the cloud and sunbeams are streaming through to illuminate the fog below.
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Flat Calm

The summer sky reflects in the near-mirror surface of the fjord. The soft breeze gently ruffles a few patches, but the water-birds are unperturbed.

Late August, Hvalfjörður in western #Iceland.

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#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a landscape containing a large body of water. The shores are green with vegetation and, on the nearest bank on the left of the shot, sheep can be seen lying in the grasses. A road winds away from left centre and towards the horizon. A promontory juts into the water and a few cottages are nestled upon it. The sky is summer cyan except for a few thin clouds. The water surface is reflecting this, apart from a small area where a breeze has ruffled the surface. Nearby, dots of birds can just be seen, and the float of a crab pot.
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Snow Mountain Sunset

Mid-November, and by 16:30 the sun has set. The fading light splashes strong colour across the sky and reduces the shadows to shades of dark blue.

Snæfell - the eponymous 'snow mountain' - volcano at the head of Lagarfljót, a huge elongated lake that drains into the sea in eastern #Iceland.

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#SaturdayScenery #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a mountain under a sky filled with streaked cloud. The sunset has tinted this in strong shades of ochre, orange and yellow. A beard of cloud is streaming from the top of the volcano, and close inspection reveals a snow cap and patches of ice down the flanks. The foreground is a large body of water, picking up a small reflection of the colours above, and the humped outlines of hills on either shore. These are in darkening shades of blue.
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'Neath Clouds And Northern Lights

On a windy February night, we waited for the skies to clear and the show to begin.
The farm buildings of Grenivík provided some small ground level lights, while the stars danced a duet with the #aurora. Even the approaching snow clouds couldn't hide the beauty completely.

Eyjafjörður in north-eastern #Iceland.

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#NorthernLights #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo taken at night, with many stars visible above a heavy grey cloud bank on the horizon. Below it, scattered lights of buildings dot the snow-covered ground. High in the sky is a gorgeous green block of light, partially hidden behind clouds. It twists and swirls in streaks and shafts, some almost vertical, some almost horizontal. At the lower edge, the green contains a hint of red and yellow.
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It only lasted for 2 minutes and I had to change the lens to my widest in the bag and just got one picture before it was only a little stripe rising from the ground. Yes it was a panic moment.

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A picture of a large bright rainbow seen from a black sandy beach in Iceland.
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Clutter

Remnants of icebergs floating near the shore of the lake.

These exquisitely carved slivers of ice once fell as snowflakes,
which piled up atop a mountain,
which then became part of a glacier,
which calved into the water,
which the tides and the winds grounded here,
where it began to melt slowly
for me to find.

Jökulsárlón lagoon, mid-November, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður in south-eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a water surface softly sunlit from the right, clean turquoise water with odd pieces of ice floating in it. Most of the shards are smoothly sculpted by being rolled in the water as they melted. Some are broken pieces, but even these have rounded edges. Some clear water is visible and a larger, central chunk has a small pool within its curves. Rings on the surface of the water show that it's raining gently. The ice and the water are all a gorgeous shade of cyan.
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