For The Love of Travel

Beautiful sun for our last viewing and shooting of 2 waterfalls:

Skógafoss (left) is one of the biggest waterfalls in Iceland, with a drop of 60 meters and a width of 25 meters, and you can walk right up to it and be drenched. Beautiful rainbows appear on sunny days, as happened today, I just couldn’t capture it! Have to practice more with camera technique. The frozen stalactites are to the top right of the waterfall.

Seljalandsfoss is 60 meters high with a foot path behind it at the bottom of the cliff, but with a thin cascade.

It is the only known waterfall of its kind, where it is possible to walk behind it. Today the pathway was frozen over and too dangerous to walk on, to get that ‘behind the waterfall’ pic. Instead, I give you a standard front shot and a lovely pic of an “ice stairway to wherever you’d like to go”

Last supper with fellow photographers “the crampons” group 😂 at the Fosshótel in Reykjavik, with the CEO lurie Belegurschi and guide Edwin Martinez …check them out on Instagram and Iceland Photo Tours! Unbelievably skilled photographers.

Long sleep-in 💤 tomorrow and flight the next day to London and then Dubai. Will be happy to move into warmth!! Farewell Iceland,  hello Oman 🇴🇲!

Beautiful sun for our shooting of Hofskirksja turf church.  There has been a church at Hof for 700 years and the first written records of a church on this site are from a catenary (old medieval document) from 1343! The core of the current church was built in 1884 and dedicated to St Clement when Iceland was a Catholic country. It’s walls made of rock and roof from stone slabs, covered with turf.

Then to Reynisdrangar (just one of the many locations Game of Thrones has used in Iceland).

These are dramatic basalt rock formations that shoot right out of the ocean. F16 on camera 🎥 to get a star 🌟 burst from shooting the sun.  You’re welcome! 

And we saw a KP level 1-2 Aurora on our last night! Woo hoo!

We did a long drive across passes in the Vatnajokull National Park to get to the east coast.  We arrived late in the evening into Djupivogur, a lovely little village with a harbour set against a snowy mountain backdrop. Delish dinner of lobster tails and garlic toast.

Next day was spent at the Eystrahorn mountain and Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon
trying to get speccy shots.

Excited that night as we got a hint of an aurora over this glacier…biting and freezing winds so cameras were hard to control for ‘shake’ on our tripods! 

Early morning rise to get shots at the Fjallsarjokull glacier just south – more colour in the skies! Yay! 

We drove to another mountain, Vestrahorn for sunset pics…in wellies so we could stand in water to get the reflection of the mountain when the water ebbed. Not bad for my first try. 

Another full day yesterday with sunrise at Diamond Ice Beach – trying out our ‘wave painting’ technique, using a fast shutter speed to capture the ebb of the water around ice forms on the black sand. You do have to watch out for the waves from the Atlantic as they come crashing into shore – holding onto tripod and at times lifting it up, is a good move! Fellow traveller Maureen’s image below – a little gem. 

Then ice caving at Svinafellsjokull glacier in the afternoon. Crampons are my new best friend! Attached to boots, they stop you slipping down mountainsides and off glaciers – you also get quite a work out of all of the muscle groups in your legs!!!!