Posts Tagged ‘Iceland Photo Gallery’
Iceland – A Photographer’s Mecca
Iceland - Seljalandsfoss
Iceland. Just that word brings up imagery usually only seen in a Peter Jackson movie. Giant glaciers, active volcanoes and steep mountains all bathed in arctic light and all of it very dramatic. Iceland is a Mecca for nature photographers, offering sites found nowhere else in the world.
I started planning my trip to Iceland over 6 years ago. As a budding landscape photographer, the Luminous Landscape was a constant source of inspiration and information. Sometime 6 years ago, the website author, Michael Reichmann made his first trip to Iceland. He returned to post an article that had tantalized and tormented me every day I wasn’t able to see Iceland myself.
A few weeks ago all that changed. Armed with a bit more skill and better equipment then I had 6 years ago, Tina and I left sunny London for a trip around Iceland. What follows is a part travel, part photography report of what must be one of the most photogenic countries in the world.
Back from the Dream
For the last 17 days, I’ve been living a long time dream – a trip to Iceland. Generally speaking, reality never quite lives up to the expectations of a dream. This was not the case in Iceland. It is a landscape that is impossible to prepare your expectations. There is no other place on earth that I can compare to Iceland. It is a spectacularly beautiful, wild country.
I’m off to Croatia in a few hours, so I don’t have the time to write a trip report, but watch this space, Iceland will be the source of many a post to come.
Here are a few random pictures from Iceland in the interim.
