A strange cumulus-like cloud column appears to rise straight from a landscape of craggy, sharp lava rocks. The rocks are real, but they are the rim of a crater within which steam is generated, every day, all day, year-round—part of the Gunnuhver geothermal area on the southwestern peninsula of Iceland. I loved the background slate-blue tones of a maritime subarctic sky subtly infused with soft-edges stratus clouds, accentuating the monotones of the steam cloud without imparting the excessive shadow-highlight ranges and contrasts of direct sunlight.
6 WSW Grindavik, Iceland (10 Aug 14) Looking NW
63.8193, -22.6832