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Golden Crown

15:30 late afternoon, mid-November in eastern Iceland, and the sun is setting in the south-west.

Looking north across Berufjörður, the mountains behind us are casting shadows onto the peaks on the opposite side of the fjord. Gradually they have crept up the faces of the mountains, and I have watched, spellbound.

A bizarre mountain named Stöng has a strange spiked pinnacle. For a perfect moment, only the very tip of it is sunset-lit.

#MountainsMonday #Iceland #Photography

A colour photo of a mountain beneath a slightly cloudy sky. The flanks are snowy but ridges of dark rock have been scoured clear of ice by the winds. The shoulders of the mountain are at roughly 25 degrees to the horizontal, and the top is a volcanic plug with upright sides and a jagged top. Low sunlight from behind the viewpoint is being obscured by a range of mountains at the viewer's back, and only this craggy tip is sunlit.
#photography #iceland #mountainsmonday

So proud of my country, #Ireland for standing up and taking the decision along with #Spain, #Slovenia, #Iceland, and The #Netherlands to #boycotteurovision.

It was a small gesture on the scale of things but maybe it inspires others to take action and I sincerely hope that the people of #Palestine are the real winners.

#freepalesti̇ne #fuckIsreal #Eurovision #genocide

#netherlands #ireland #Spain #slovenia #iceland #palestine #eurovision #genocide #freepalestine #boycotteurovision #fuckisreal

Birds On An Iceberg

Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon on a misty August morning. A layer of vapour is sitting on the water's surface.

The stillness is only broken by the occasional call of a seabird. All is quiet, the fog suppressing any sound.

Then the spell is broken by a harbour seal breaking the surface, always searching for the next meal.

The southern part of Vatnajökull National Park (Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður) in Iceland.

#FoggyFriday #Iceland #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A colour photo in a palette of shades of cyan of a body of water with large icebergs floating on it. One large central berg is carved into intricate shapes and holes by the melting. Others are behind it, ridged and with dark stripes in the turquoise ice. On a near horizontal ledge of the iceberg on the left, rows of seabirds are sitting. In the centre, just in front of the large berg, a seal has just surfaced, its rounded head clearly visible and a wake of turbulence behind it. The air around the scene is misty and slightly blurred.
#photography #landscapephotography #iceland #foggyfriday

Infinite Loop

Over the 12 years that we've been taking holidays in Iceland, I must have snapped thousands of aurora photos. This one is still among my favourites.

November. The 94% illuminated moon was high in the south-east, and lit the mountains on the opposite side of Berufjörður. The night was clear and still.

This curl of green aurora looping over the peaks and reflecting in the fjord gave me this great shot.

#AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography

A colour photo of a night sky with lots of stars visible. The foreground is a wide body of water with a range of mountains on the other shore, moonlit from the right. Just above the peaks is a bright green loop of aurora, some places are slightly brighter than others, some parts are quite faint, and a few small flickers of green are visible on the right. The shape is a hook, the upper part brighter than the lower. It's so bright that it's reflected in the water surface. EXIF: Canon PowerShot G3X, f/2.8, ISO-800, 10 second exposure.
#photography #northernlights #aurora #iceland #auroraborealis #auroratuesday

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