Notes To My Mother

In my blog last week , I talked about my first day in Iceland and left the story when we arrived at Hraunfossar water falls. But that was by no means the end of our first day in Iceland. Just up stream from Hraunfossar is a really cool area called Barnafoss. The width of the river is narrower, deeper and swifter than at Hraunfossar. After shooting Hraunfossar I wandered up stream and found this little gem. My only regret is that I did not climb down the bank you see in the shot above and get a better composition with the water coming into the gorge. Just below this area the water moves swiftly and has carved out some very interesting contours. By the time I had finished with this shot it was getting pretty late and we had a long way to go to get back to Reykjavik, though none of us actually knew how far or which way to go exactly. The Storm Arrives We headed west knowing we should be able to find our way to highway one, the ring road that goes all the way a...

If you take a flight to Iceland, chances are it will arrive around 6:30 am. Two friends and I met up there last year, one from Florida, one from Denver and me from San Francisco. We all arrived within 20 minutes of each other, right around 6:30 am. This meant we flew all night and had a full day ahead of us, so we decided we would stay up, make the most of that day and then get a good night’s sleep before embarking on our planned travels. Area Adjacent to Blue Lagoon Pools We wanted to photograph Hraunfossar, a beautiful set of waterfalls northeast of Reykjavik, so rented a 4x4 Jeep from Blue Car, took a quick trip over to the Blue Lagoon to photograph there.  Afer a couple of hours at the Blue Lagoon, we set off for Hraunfossar, not completely sure of which way to go, we decided to go northeast to Pingvellir and from there north on highway 52 to 550. Wide Open Spaces Image Taken with Tripod in the Wind.  We had no idea how desolate these roads were n...