Icebergs of varying sizes float from the freshwater Jokulsarlon lagoon through a tidal outlet to the Atlantic Ocean, whose surf soon deposits them on the nearby black-sand beach strewn with wave-smoothed igneous cobbles. Regardless of time of day, it's a striking scene, and one unfamiliar to most of us from the lower latitudes. 7 SW Reynivellir, Iceland (18 Aug 14) Looking E 64.0396, -16.1846 … [Read more...]
Seljalandsfoss Windbow
Recipe for wondrous delight: Take one of the most captivating waterfalls in the world and add wind--specifically, a very strong, gale-force, southwest wind--and behold the vast and elegantly tempestuous spectacle of spray from a place of stable standing. We visited Seljalandsfoss thrice, each time witnessing a new facet to its personality. This certainly was the wildest. At the top, some of … [Read more...]
Cold Liquid Turquoise
Yes, we spent plenty of time viewing and photographing the famous, upstream, glacier-fed cascade Godafoss under assorted light. However, the happenings downstream were plenty fascinating as well, whether on wide-landscape scales, or as in this case, zoomed into some water action. As with the great majority of weather photographs, which feature water vapor as a gaseous fluid, no single scenes of … [Read more...]