March 31 - Enormous

Iceland has 'enormous' well covered!

Gullfoss is one of Iceland's most spectacular waterfalls - the Hvita river sends enormous quantities of water hurtling down in two stages at angles to each other. See the tiny people on the rocks at the edge of the falls - no safety rails in Iceland - just be sensible and don't get too close to the edge! Once you are down there the roar of the water is almost overwhelming as it hurtles over the massive rock faces. Worth the walk :)

March 18 - Distorted

Husavik in the north-east of Iceland in Skjalfandi bay is touted as the whale watching capital of the world. Needless to say we saw dolphins and puffins, and lots of seasick passengers (not us) on the whale watching boat ... but no whales - we did see part of a whale in a nearby museum for which Husavik is also famous, but you will have to google (Husavik museum) for that!

Back to the theme - I have always loved the distorted images in reflections and the harbour at Husavik is wonderful for reflections - in fact almost any stillwater harbour in the world is great for photo-play. Yes it was summer and yes that is snow and ice ;)

March 7th - Dead of Night

Leaving Rekjavik in the middle of the night I took this photo from the bus - this is about as dark as it gets in Summer... (SOOC image)

January 11 - angles

Angles - LOL - so many teens write this word for angels that maybe I should do them instead? No, angles it must be and though my original thought was for a fabulous sculpture that has many angles, I have decided to put forward some images of nature at her finest and man's interpretation of her work.

Firstly the hand of nature - Basalt columns formed by (relatively) fast cooling of a thick lava flow result in spectacular, often six-sided columns that create memorable formations such as the wall over which Svartifoss tumbles and the beautiful pillar formations and caves by the sea in Iceland. We have also discovered these in Australia at Mt Kaputar national park (first 2 images). The spectacular cathedral in Reykjavik echoes the beauty and strength of these formations as it pushes up to the sky - man's homage to nature's magnificence.

The photos have had minimal processing (just a little added contrast or exposure adjustment) apart from the first where I added a duplicate layer to bring out the colour of the stone. The image of the cathedral was taken late at night in June 2011.