I had a 24-hour layover in Iceland on my way to Denmark, rented a car to drive around for the day. The most interesting part was seeing the erupting volcano near the airport. I returned to Iceland again for a couple more days after my trip to Denmark.
Here are some of the shots from the layover.
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens70mmf/14.01/40s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/8.01/80s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens107mmf/13.01/200s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens118mmf/8.01/160s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens183mmf/10.01/100s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/10.01/10s125 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/10.030s100 ISO0.0 EV
Douglas L wrote:
I had a 24-hour layover in Iceland on my way to Denmark, rented a car to drive around for the day. The most interesting part was seeing the erupting volcano near the airport. I returned to Iceland again for a couple more days after my trip to Denmark.
Douglas L wrote:
I had a 24-hour layover in Iceland on my way to Denmark, rented a car to drive around for the day. The most interesting part was seeing the erupting volcano near the airport. I returned to Iceland again for a couple more days after my trip to Denmark.
Here are some of the shots from the layover.
You really did a great job Douglas.So many excellent pictures in one day.
Douglas L wrote:
I had a 24-hour layover in Iceland on my way to Denmark, rented a car to drive around for the day. The most interesting part was seeing the erupting volcano near the airport. I returned to Iceland again for a couple more days after my trip to Denmark.
Here are some of the shots from the layover.
Great images Douglas. Definitely on my list of places to see and photograph.
BillinTexas wrote:
Phenomenal shots of this beautiful land.
Thank you Bill! Iceland is very different from any other places I have been to and I have been to quite a few. While a Denmark, I met the pilot who flew one of the jets in the air to air shoot at his hanger, he lives in Greenland half of the time. He got me interested Greenland where his daughters fly tourists around. Have to keep buying lotto tickets.
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Peire wrote:
You really did a great job Douglas.So many excellent pictures in one day.
Thank you, Peire! I may have a surprise for you from northern Germany, need to go through more than 10,000 of my fighter jets shots to find it.
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regulator wrote:
Great images Douglas. Definitely on my list of places to see and photograph.
I look forward to seeing more.
Thanks Ed! It's only a 5.5 hour flight for us in Maryland, not much longer than going to the west coast. Definitely will go back again. I was there 6 or 7 years ago.
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birdied wrote:
Douglas, fantastic shots of Iceland ! Absolutely love the 6th one, looking through the waterfall at the rising or setting sun.
Birdie
Thank you Birdie! The Seljalandsfoss is probably the most photographed waterfall in Iceland. This particular shot was taken at around 11:30 PM when the sun was setting. I didn't wait for the sunrise (at 3:00 AM.)
Last Friday I arrived back to Iceland from Denmark at around 3:00 PM, I had about 33 hours to kill before I needed to pick up my wife at the airport at 4:30 AM Sunday morning. She didn't go to Denmark with me so she would meet up with me in Iceland.
I drove to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in NW part of the country, stopped by the Black Church, lucked out with some lighting on the mountains, continued on to Arnarstapi for some seascape shooting but I didn't bother to take one single shot when I got there, the light was just horrible. For sunset on Friday night I was at Kirkjufellsfoss but it was too cloudy, not much of a sunset. I then drove to see Hvítserkur (the rock formation that looks like an elephant on the beach) in northern Iceland for sunrise, it was nothing but rain and fog when I got there. I was planning to take a whale/puffin watching cruise on Saturday morning in Husavik, Northern Iceland but it got cancelled due to the wind. A native told me to go to a place called "Borgarfjarðarhöfn" in the easternmost part of Iceland to see the puffin colony, so I went. It was amazing to see thousands of them and some were merely a few feet from the walking path, the light wasn't the best and I didn't have much time to wait for in flight shots. From Borgarfjarðarhöfn I drove back to the capital, via the longer south route this time. I didn't enjoy driving in the snowy weather in parts of the north route that morning. When I drove by Seljalandsfoss the light was very pretty so I decided to stop by there to wait for the sunset again before I drove to Reykjavík. When I checked in the hotel in Reykjavík, it was 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I slept for two hours before I drove to the airport to pick up my wife.
So within 33 hours I drove over 1800 kms around Iceland, stopped at various places, napped in the car when I was too sleepy. I had 4 or 5 Red Bull drinks during that time. A lot of my favorite shots from Iceland were just taken from the roadside when I saw the interesting sight and light and was able to find room to pull over.
Here are some shots from that crazy 33 hours.
I had the 100-400 GM lens with me because I needed that lens for what I did in Denmark, otherwise I would have brought my 70-200 F4 G II with me but Iceland definitely needs more than wide angle lenses, IMHO.
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens24mmf/18.01/25s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens123mmf/10.01/200s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/11.01/200s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/10.01/125s500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/10.01/10s100 ISO-1.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens41mmf/10.01/20s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens48mmf/10.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens306mmf/5.61/1000s2500 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens300mmf/5.61/800s1000 ISO-0.3 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens400mmf/5.61/640s640 ISO0.0 EV
Sunset from a different night.
ILCE-7RM5Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/9.01/50s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens100mmf/13.01/80s500 ISO0.0 EV
