Iceland, February 2019

I'd convinced myself that the pictures I took at the roadside coach stops were not going to be very good - my tripod was in my suitcase under the coach and I was having to balance my camera on the nearest handy rock. So I was pleasantly surprised when I reviewed (and straightened up) some of the files this evening! The hi-res files from the Nikon D850 reveal a lot of detail.

I'd convinced myself that the pictures I took at the roadside coach stops were not going to be very good - my tripod was in my suitcase under the coach and I was having to balance my camera on the nearest handy rock. So I was pleasantly surprised when I reviewed (and straightened up) some of the files this evening! The hi-res files from the Nikon D850 reveal a lot of detail.

I'd convinced myself that the pictures I took at the roadside coach stops were not going to be very good - my tripod was in my suitcase under the coach and I was having to balance my camera on the nearest handy rock. So I was pleasantly surprised when I reviewed (and straightened up) some of the files this evening! The hi-res files from the Nikon D850 reveal a lot of detail.

I'd convinced myself that the pictures I took at the roadside coach stops were not going to be very good - my tripod was in my suitcase under the coach and I was having to balance my camera on the nearest handy rock. So I was pleasantly surprised when I reviewed (and straightened up) some of the files this evening! The hi-res files from the Nikon D850 reveal a lot of detail.

Taking the pledge

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Aurora over Grundarfjiordur 1

Monday 4th Feb, 2019. Just down the road from our accommodation.

Standing still for a ten second long exposure... (2)

Is not as easy as it sounds on a windy night!

Kirkjufellsfoss - Church mountain with twat in foreground

The twat in the foreground annoyed me at first, but actually he adds to the picture.

Seal in the harbour, early one morning...

just as the sun was rising...

Cold road to nowhere

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Climb up and see the crater, they said...

It'll be fun, they said. (The coach is in the top right hand corner)

Ytri Tunga Beach

You walk through the knee deep snow to get to the sand. Lots of wildlife on the beach - flocks of purple sandpipers and seals out in the bay hauled out on the rocks.

Too cold to paddle!

We stopped at Ytri Tunga beach to see the seals hauled up on the rocks. But I chased the purple sandpipers around, trying to get some action shots.

Icelandic Cormorant

Actually, just a cormorant that happens to be in Iceland ;-)

Snaefellsjokull volcano

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Sunrise over the mountains

We finally got out on the whale watching boat on the penultimate day of our stay in Iceland. A winter storm had sat just to the south for most of our stay, so this was the first time the winds and high seas allowed for a trip out into the fjiord. Sadly, we saw no orca. But hey, that's wildlife photography for you!

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On Reflection (spot the shooting star!)

I think this is my favourite aurora shot from the four days. It was taken on day one (actually just after midnight, so the early morning of day 2) and I never got a better shot of the northern lights during the rest of the week - mainly due to cloud conditions.

Seal - looking worried