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Landmannalaugar — Barmur and Suðurnámur

by Marc 02/08/2022 | 5 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

I have always dreamed of Landmannalaugar. I really wanted to see the red/yellow rhyolite mountains of this landscape shining in the sunlight and was rather cautiously excited when we set off there on our fourth day in the highlands. After all, the days before had been wet and cloudy and so I didn’t want to grind out Landmannalaugar. The weather forecast gave a little hope that we could expect a clearing over lunchtime.

The happier I was when we arrived, the forecast was correct. We had sunshine for the first time in the highlands and the first rhyolite ridges were shining towards us. A short hike led us across the old lava flow Laugarhraun. Everywhere we could see the cooled lava protruding, but the path was filled up with earth and thus allowed a pleasant walking. A view back simply had to be held as a panorama. In contrast to Laugarhraun, the red/yellow rhyolite ridge of Barmur was shining towards us: read more or write a comment …

Axlarfoss in backlight

by Marc 02/05/2022 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Actually, I find waterfalls from the »normal perspective« not so interesting. But when I stood here at the edge of the gorge of Axlarfoss and aligned my camera on the waterfall and its outflow, suddenly the sun came out of the gray sky. And all of a sudden the spray veil was to be seen, which was to be guessed before only. Like a ghost he laid over the landscape opposite and thus formed a beautiful counterpoint to the waterfall.

Lava & Moss

by Marc 01/29/2022 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

This is one of my most impressive moss pictures from Iceland. The whole day it was raining fine and again it was appropriate to look down more than into the gray sky. Here close to the riverbed the moss is almost neon green. In addition — again — the extremely strong contrast to the lava or ash layers of earlier volcanic eruptions. It’s no wonder that I fell in love with this landscape!

Below Mýrdalsjökull

by Marc 01/25/2022 | 4 IMAGES IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

Layers of ash, moss and in the background the ice of Mýrdalsjökull! The view into the river valley was simply breathtakingly beautiful. The black steep wall on the left, which makes various layers of ash visible and simply swallowed any light. In addition, once again the strong contrast to the moss on the mountain slopes.

I photographed this slope again in detail to show all the layers of black ash. But also a pano to reflect the vastness of this landscape. read more or write a comment …

Above the mouth of the Hólmsá river

by Marc 01/23/2022 | 3 IMAGES IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

Arrived in the evening at the wonderful Hrífunes Guesthouse, I used the golden hour the time to let the drones rise. Below the guesthouse lies the mouth of the Hólmsá into the Kúdaflót, one of the river arms of the Skaftá. Soon it became apparent that I was right, as the riverbed shone in many shades of yellow between the brown riverbed. At the beginning I let my drone fly in the direction of the ring road, because there a long, red bridge over the Kúdaflót could be seen. East of it begins the Eldhraun lava field, which was formed during the Laki eruption from 1783 to 1784 more than 60 km away from the eruption site. In the photo above, you can clearly see the yellow structures of the lava field on the left.

A look down reveals the full color splendor of the dry riverbed. Yellow shining moss in between brown structures of the dry riverbed: read more or write a comment …

Iceland — Mælifell

by Marc 01/21/2022 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

For kilometers, Mælifellsandur, a vast black plateau, stretches north of the glacier Mýrdalsjökull. At one eastern end lies the conical cone of Mælifell, completely overgrown with moss. The contrast between the black outwash plain and the green mountain cone is great here.

Black Sander

by Marc 01/19/2022 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

If it weren’t for the light golden glitter in the free-blown area in front of the rocks, you could mistake this photo in the highlands of Iceland for a black and white image. I’ve seen these black sander areas at Black Beach before, but here in contrast with the light rocks it was a special sight!

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