Day 3
We were heading east again and decided to go via a national park and visit Lake Pingvallavatn, which was err…impressive
Nothing special, obviously
– I’ll keep quiet and let the photos do the work
Me shooting into the sun constantly? No, never!
We decided to leave the road and hike down to as close to the surface as possible, this view was too amazing to not at least try. I also hasten to add we all lost weight this week through pure amount of hiking/walking/exercising we were doing.
Still had another 40 foot down to go or so at this point.
We got as close as possible - Kevin even rested his camera on the ice at one point!
The effort was worth it…
Although I’m kicking myself now I didn’t do some sort of pano…annoying, but hey ho, my tripod was at the car and I wasn’t going to go back up to get it.
Said Mkii on the ice! Mental!
To give a better idea of how far down we were, it was a fair wack, if memory serves I was roughly a 3rd of the way back up at this point.
Moving on we began heading further east. With Iceland being the way it is…stopping in the middle of the road for photo ops and not worrying about other cars wasn’t an issue.
Like so...
We kept driving and eventually ended up at the black beaches these were just…odd…beaches should be yellow dammit!
The naturally cut rocks were fantastic though.
We then moved up onto the rocks
And then risked our equipment for getting shots like these.
Then a really big one came…it was at the 4th shot I decided to run for it...look carefully for motion blur...
I think I was quite brave before I legged it – last one of these now!
After this we back-tracked slightly to a higher location to get a good view of the sunset combined with the black beaches, resulting in this.
And some random yet mesmerising geographical porn...
Our next objective was to continue east to the Glacier – this meant a long drive ahead, and roughing it in the car for the night as well…fun times, probably the only part of the trip I was not looking forward to but we wanted sunrise photos as the Glacier Lake so therefore it had to be done.
When we got there it was pitch black and we did not really what exactly we were going to find (as with a lot of this trip) initially we were going to do some star trails, here is a 931 second exposure which showed us exactly what was in front of us...
Fortunately you can see the glacier, small icebergs…and what’s that to the right?
AURORA
– We couldn’t believe it! Third night in a row! Most are lucky to see it once in a week!
A mix of excitement and trying not to fall in the lake ensued we managed to capture it.
I did also do a timelapse of it, I’ll post this later.
So Day 3 was a massive hit for us! Excellent. This trip was turning into something incredible.
Stay tuned...tomorrow is Glacier Lake day!
Thanks for reading and the comments guys, means a lot
We were heading east again and decided to go via a national park and visit Lake Pingvallavatn, which was err…impressive
Nothing special, obviously
– I’ll keep quiet and let the photos do the work
Me shooting into the sun constantly? No, never!
We decided to leave the road and hike down to as close to the surface as possible, this view was too amazing to not at least try. I also hasten to add we all lost weight this week through pure amount of hiking/walking/exercising we were doing.
Still had another 40 foot down to go or so at this point.
We got as close as possible
- Kevin even rested his camera on the ice at one point! The effort was worth it…
Although I’m kicking myself now I didn’t do some sort of pano…annoying, but hey ho, my tripod was at the car and I wasn’t going to go back up to get it.
Said Mkii on the ice! Mental!
To give a better idea of how far down we were, it was a fair wack, if memory serves I was roughly a 3rd of the way back up at this point.
Moving on we began heading further east. With Iceland being the way it is…stopping in the middle of the road for photo ops and not worrying about other cars wasn’t an issue.
Like so...
We kept driving and eventually ended up at the black beaches these were just…odd…beaches should be yellow dammit!
The naturally cut rocks were fantastic though.
We then moved up onto the rocks
And then risked our equipment for getting shots like these.
Then a really big one came…it was at the 4th shot I decided to run for it...look carefully for motion blur...
I think I was quite brave before I legged it
– last one of these now!
After this we back-tracked slightly to a higher location to get a good view of the sunset combined with the black beaches, resulting in this.
And some random yet mesmerising geographical porn...
Our next objective was to continue east to the Glacier – this meant a long drive ahead, and roughing it in the car for the night as well…fun times, probably the only part of the trip I was not looking forward to but we wanted sunrise photos as the Glacier Lake so therefore it had to be done.
When we got there it was pitch black and we did not really what exactly we were going to find (as with a lot of this trip) initially we were going to do some star trails, here is a 931 second exposure which showed us exactly what was in front of us...
Fortunately you can see the glacier, small icebergs…and what’s that to the right?
AURORA
– We couldn’t believe it! Third night in a row! Most are lucky to see it once in a week! A mix of excitement and trying not to fall in the lake ensued we managed to capture it.
I did also do a timelapse of it, I’ll post this later.
So Day 3 was a massive hit for us!
Excellent. This trip was turning into something incredible.Stay tuned...tomorrow is Glacier Lake day!
Thanks for reading and the comments guys, means a lot
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BUT I am planning on going back!