My Iceland Photos

a1ex2001 · 22 Mar 2014 at 15:00

I'm going to slowly add my Iceland photos to this thread as I finish them off, I've already shared my favorite Northern Lights shots so here is something a little different the Sun Voyager by Jón Gunnar Árnason which stands on the sea front in Reykjavík.

Sun Voyager, Reykjavík, Iceland by a1ex2001, on Flickr

All comments and crit welcome, I'll add more in the coming days.

a1ex2001 · 25 Mar 2014 at 10:45

Not much interest then! Oh well maybe this one will prompt some responses?

The Three Sisters, Vik, Iceland by a1ex2001, on Flickr

Taken on the famous black sand beach at Vik the southernmost town in Iceland.

Phate · 25 Mar 2014 at 16:07

Ahhhhh Iceland

I've stood on that very beach! Beautiful place!

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Lartyconshayo · 25 Mar 2014 at 18:34

Got photos of both me self. Got hammered on black death with me mate and went climbing the hills /mountains around the three sisters. Got photos of us doing it but man I am very hazy.

Lovely people the Icelanders.

~Mike~ · 25 Mar 2014 at 18:54

Somewhere I've always wanted to go, look forward to seeing more photos

Lartyconshayo · 25 Mar 2014 at 20:24

the ocified shot from 2am

Amp34 · 25 Mar 2014 at 20:38

Really want to do a 3 week trip but we can only do spring next year and most of the roads will be shut/impassable.

Phate · 26 Mar 2014 at 07:15

Amp34 said:
Really want to do a 3 week trip but we can only do spring next year and most of the roads will be shut/impassable.

Didn't stop us, had a 4x4 for the open but seemingly unpassable roads and then for anything that was closed there was a diversion.

a1ex2001 · 26 Mar 2014 at 09:35

Phate said:
Didn't stop us, had a 4x4 for the open but seemingly unpassable roads and then for anything that was closed there was a diversion.

In the summer far more roads are open in the interior of the country that in the winter just don't exist. I would love to go back in the summer and explore further but I think I would be disapointed at how busy it is, when we went in February it was lovely and quiet with no massive crowds at thetourist attractions and when we went Skidoing we were in a group of four and the only people who had been up on the glacier that day rather than one of several groups of 20 a day that go in the summer. In the summer you can drive your own car to a cafe on the glacier where the skido's leave from in the winter we needed a super jeep and a snow mobile to get up there and the cafe was under several meters of snow!

Capt Doufos · 26 Mar 2014 at 12:50

We were there in October and the core attractions were still fairly busy. We drove up to the glacier café which is doable in a saloon car, but there are still larger than fist sized rocks scattered everywhere. There was only 2 other cars up there but then a coach load of Japanese turned up.

I think even in summer if you are going further a field and do things that aren't as well publicised it can still be quiet. Iceland has a vast amount of cool scenery and adventures waiting to be had. Most tourists will be doing the Golden Circle and South Coast so they are always going to be busy.

http://www.iheartreykjavik.net/ is a good source for ideas.

a1ex2001 · 26 Mar 2014 at 20:23

Capt Doufos said:
We were there in October and the core attractions were still fairly busy. We drove up to the glacier café which is doable in a saloon car, but there are still larger than fist sized rocks scattered everywhere. There was only 2 other cars up there but then a coach load of Japanese turned up.

I think even in summer if you are going further a field and do things that aren't as well publicised it can still be quiet. Iceland has a vast amount of cool scenery and adventures waiting to be had. Most tourists will be doing the Golden Circle and South Coast so they are always going to be busy.

http://www.iheartreykjavik.net/ is a good source for ideas.

I'll put up a picture of the machine that drove us to the 'car park' you certainly wouldn't have made it in a saloon car!

The Japanese tourist busses get everywhere doesn't seem to matter which country fortunately they only stop anywhere for 5 minutes and 5000 photos then they are off again we use there arrival for drinks breaks!

Capt Doufos · 27 Mar 2014 at 20:36

It's when they keep catching you up it's a pita. We would get somewhere, it was nice a quiet, just a handful of people then all of a sudden there is a flood. I would really hate to go in peak, the car parks have parking for 15+ coaches in some places.

My point with the glacier was it was only just passible in a fwd in October, so I hate to think what it's like mid winter!

I liked the sun voyager photo, makes me kind of annoyed I didn't go over to it. Didn't realise there was such a nice view. We were only parked opposite.

a1ex2001 · 28 Mar 2014 at 12:12

Capt Doufos said:
It's when they keep catching you up it's a pita. We would get somewhere, it was nice a quiet, just a handful of people then all of a sudden there is a flood. I would really hate to go in peak, the car parks have parking for 15+ coaches in some places.

My point with the glacier was it was only just passible in a fwd in October, so I hate to think what it's like mid winter!

I liked the sun voyager photo, makes me kind of annoyed I didn't go over to it. Didn't realise there was such a nice view. We were only parked opposite.

The increased level of tourists really puts me off the summer I think it might detract from my memories of a fantastic holiday, the only thing that would have made it better is more time but the same can be said for any holiday!

I really wanted to see the sun voyager but we couldn't find it, then we were driving back from a dip in the local thermal pools one evening, spooted it and pulled into the car park. There was some sort of photography tour group all setting up tripods and waving light meters so I snapped half a dozen shots from different angles and ran. The timming for the light and weather was pure luck and the composition instinctive conditions which often lead to my better shots if I think about something too much I normally mess it up!