Lost in Iceland

[ahbian]

Its always one of my aims to witness the Northern lights one day, I hope I can capture them as well as you when the day comes.

And yes, do keep the flare in your pics, somehow, it gives the the photos a more 3D feeling.

 

[beng07]

that's fantastic.

 

[hohoho32]

hi... do you have a flickr page or something?? i cant see any of the great pictures you posted here on clubsnap..

 

[Long Thai Bean]

Amazing to see another person "Lost in Iceland" ....
I was lost there too for 3 weeks in July .... Didn't see any snow at all because it was too early ...
Spent 2 week in the capital doing an environmental volunteer project and then spent a week doing a self drive along the south coast ... and even then only manage to see about 1/3 of that beautiful country ...

Thanks for sharing your pictures .... if Richard don't mind I will post a few of my pics here of the same places ... gives a very different view just 2 months time gap ....

 

[ricleo]

Amazing to see another person "Lost in Iceland" ....
I was lost there too for 3 weeks in July .... Didn't see any snow at all because it was too early ...
Spent 2 week in the capital doing an environmental volunteer project and then spent a week doing a self drive along the south coast ... and even then only manage to see about 1/3 of that beautiful country ...

Thanks for sharing your pictures .... if Richard don't mind I will post a few of my pics here of the same places ... gives a very different view just 2 months time gap ....

sure sure! post them and share the different view with us when i was there, even teh locals were surprised by the snow as it was too early, and this may be surprising to many ppl, but iceland has not had snowy winters in the low-lying areas for the past few years, so we were very lucky to get a heavy snowfall one night (lucky not the northern lights night too) to get a snow covered landscape for pictures

 

[ricleo]

hi... do you have a flickr page or something?? i cant see any of the great pictures you posted here on clubsnap..

hmm....i don't have a flicker page, not sure why you can't view the pictures, the host i'm using is picture sky. i have them posted on my picassa google album, but shall refrain from posting the link here as it is full of pictures of me and my friends inside

 

[ricleo]

breathtaking view! Northern Lights are great! great series!
but weren't you afraid of damaging your 'wife'?

thanks for sharing!
will visit before i leave this place -.-

ha i wasn't really afraid of damaging my 'wife', its meant to take nice pictures for me hee....n if it breaks down, perfect excuse to get a new wife, the 5DM2, weathersealed

 

[bruggink]

Inspirational.. Especially the northern lights and Milky Way.

I definitely wan to make a trip to Iceland!

 

[HTCahHTC]

ha i wasn't really afraid of damaging my 'wife', its meant to take nice pictures for me hee....n if it breaks down, perfect excuse to get a new wife, the 5DM2, weathersealed

LOL! hahaha! since you're back in sg now, put your camera under the sun for a day. you have a perfect excuse to get 5DM2

 

[ricleo]

ha i'm still in London now, probably won't be coming back to Singapore till sometime next year hopefully 5Dm2 prices will have fallen by then!

 

[ricleo]

more pictures! =)

71 - friends taking pictures of the escaping steam

72 - long road

73 - sun dial

74 - road cut between 2 ridges?

75 - nice countryside scene with a river, chapel n some houses

 

[ricleo]

76 - winding staircase

77 - on the way to the gullfoss waterfall

78 - raillings keeping us safe? the ground is terribly slippery as the pebbles were all coated in ice. look at the ropes, even those have a coat of ice on them!

79 - local painter

80 - the gullfoss waterfall

 

[ricleo]

81 - see the ice?

82 - top view of the waterfall

83 - a nice hot pool of water, warm to the touch in the cold weather

84 - ok, i can't remember whats the name of this following waterfalls =p

85 - unknown waterfall

 

[ricleo]

86 - Skalholt Church

87 - from the front

88 - inside the church

89 - mosaic mural

90 - chairs for the congregation

 

[ricleo]

91 - nice flare in the bus

92 - The Hellisheidi geothermal power station

93 - another view

94 - natural steam being released by the power stations

95 - snow capped mountain

 

[ricleo]

96 - more northern lights

97 - more northern lights, tried a different WB for the following 2 images

98 - more northern lights

99 - more northern lights, i like this as i tried to get the bus into the picture on this occasion, and a car happened to approach at the same time, adding the nice flares =)

100 - The horse i rode on in one of the day tours, and his name is luke. very nice and obedient horse, taken by my panasonic FX520

 

[ricleo]

101- wide panorama crop

102- crevice in the mountain?

103- The glacier river forming a foreground infront of the mountains

104- blue skies beginning to come out

105- flare!

 

[ricleo]

106- Reykjavik Excursions tour bus

107- another snow capped mountain on the way to yet another waterfall, everything on the road just looks so beautiful!

108- the skogafoss waterfall

109- clearer shot of the rainbow.

110- landscape shot with the waterfall in

 

[ricleo]

111 - lone tree

112 - candid at the sea baron restaurant, serves the best lobster soup, seafood skewers (lobsters, scallops, cod, etc, and even whale meat!) ever!

113 - the lobster soup....yummy! comes with a free and large serving of bread to make you full

114 - the scallops skewer, and....the whale skewer! I'm actually quite against the practice of commercial whaling, but according to the locals in iceland, they actually hunt the local minke whale to keep the population controlled, as they say these whales which are not on the endangered species list actually threatens their fishing economy as they eat an astonishing amount of fish everyday. Not sure how true this is though..... my friend wanted to try how it tasted like...so we ordered one skewer. Tastes like a cross between beef and lamb, totally a red meat and cooked like red meat too, medium rare...too tough for my liking tho

115 - tourists on the whale watching boat.

 

[ricleo]

116 - 2 fellow photogs with D300s on the whale spotting tour. Wonder how did their pictures turn out! heard their faster fps machines churning out so much more shots than my lowly 450D used for the whale shots hehe....

117 - the icelandic flag

118 - October fest English pub! Weird combi since october fest is a german festival, what is it doing in an english pub located in iceland haha....

119 - viking ship sculpture

120 - ferarri!