Iceland Photo Tour

This is the first blog from Iceland.  I hope you enjoy the pictures.  The lupines are blooming throughout the low lands.  You could see fields of them from the airplane on final approach.

The tour began with a trip to the highlands.  The elevation here is 500 to 1000 meters.  The tallest mountain in Iceland is 2100 meters or about 7000 feet.

Our first night we shot sunset pictures and sunrise pictures from 10:30 pm until 3:30 am.  We had great skies.

Every direction you turned had a great sky and a wonderful view.

The last three pictures were shot from the same hill.  We were very fortunate because the snow just melted enough to allow the roads to open.

I walked down off of the hill to the lake to capture this picture.  Hard to image a sunset that lasted long enough to allow you to do that.

The waterfalls are running full with all of the snow melt.  This picture was taken at 3:00 am.

After sleeping to noon we got up for an afternoon shoot at these falls.  By 4:30 am the sun is too harsh for most landscape photography.

Another shot from the same location.

The following pictures are from Reykjavik and were taken on the day of arrival in Iceland.  This is the concert house.  The outside walls are hexagon glass cubes.

A view of the harbor.

Just a geometric shot.

Symbolic viking ship along the shore. The fisherman appears to have a quite large bobber.

Lief Ericsson in from of the largest church in Iceland.  Most of the structure in Iceland are built from concrete. Iceland has about 330,000 people with 200,000 plus living in the Reykjavik metro area.

The are very few trees in Iceland and the ones that are here are very short.  The running joke is, " A tourist calls and says he is lost in the forest.  The Icelandic ranger says just stand up."

We are leaving the Highlands today and headed to the coast.  Hope to issue another blog in a few days.  After Kathy reads this blog and finds all of my spelling and grammatical errors I will fix this blog.