Category Archives: Iceland

Hallgrímskirkja

Or Hallgrim’s Church in English. A very unique church in Reykjavik. Photographed by every tourist visiting Iceland. I like the lines I got in this composition but it’s hard to tell what the church really looks like from this picture but that’s where Google comes in :-) It looks like a space ship about to take off.

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Mountain Mall

A small shop at the camp site in Landmannalaugar. I was actually a bit surprised that they had anything out there in the middle of nowhere. It’s actually a really nice camp site with everything you’ll need to stay a week to photograph the area. Something I would like to do someday. We only stayed there one night this time.

Iceland Route 1

This is route 1 that is the only main road that goes around Iceland along the coast connecting all the habitable parts of the country. It’s a bit winding in this pictures but other parts of the road is just straight for miles and miles.

Black sand beaches of Iceland

One thing I was looking forward to see when I traveled to Iceland was the long black sand beaches. Makes for some interesting photos. This was shot along the south coast somewhere. I think it was shot at the small town called Vik but I’m not sure. Maybe it’s time for me to get a GPS for my camera :-)

Iceberg, straight ahead.

This is shot at Jökulsarlon, a glacier lake on Iceland. A very nice place and we were lucky to get some fog when we were there. Vattnajökul, the largest glacier on Iceland goes into this lake and breaks of into icebergs that floats around on the lake. It’s very close to the sea so eventually the icebergs continue through the short river out into the Atlantic ocean. Some icebergs gets washed up on the black sand beach which also makes for some interesting pictures that I will post later.

Land of waterfalls.

If you like shooting waterfalls I can definitely recommend a trip to Iceland. There are waterfalls all over the place. This waterfall is called Svartifoss. It’s inside Skaftafell national park. We camped here and got up at 4 AM to hike for maybe 30 minutes or something to photograph this waterfall.

Driving on Iceland

One of the enjoyment with travelling to Iceland is the driving. I really liked driving around in the rented SUV on the dirt roads up and down mountains and through rivers. We got one flat tire and a broken bearing in a wheel though so I’m not sure our car actually was built for this. We rented a Toyota RAV4 but if we did it again we probably should have rented a even more robust jeep. You will definitely need a four wheel drive car. The road you see on the picture above is actually a good road. This road goes in and out of Landmannalaugar, an amazing drive.