lotsofmagnets

ok, went through and picked ou a few photos from my trip to the mentioned places last weekend. sorry about how many photos there are so i´ve decided to split it into 2 parts so will post some now and some later. this time i´ll explain at least a few of the photos. ps i was pointered in cleaning up the photos a bit although i´m no pro i did make them a bit better this time so shout outs to that person who shall remain nameless except to stay their name started with r and ended with anger joe. the photos:

on the road out


4 waterfalls (seljalandsfoss on the right)


seljalandsfoss








skógafoss

note the nesting birds


notice the face on the left facing the waterfall. and you wonder why icelanders believe in hidden people...


view out to vestmanneyjar from near mýrdalsjökull


the famous black beaches of vík taken from dýrhólaey


stjórnarfoss in kirkjubæjarklauster




coming up towards vatnjökull, the largest in iceland.


"remember the seatbelt." i love this advertising campaign. back in au we´re force-fed images of dead people and lots of blood.


svínafellsjökull, a glacier tongue of vatnjökull. last time i was here i climbed onto this glacier. behind it slightly to the right and partially obscured by clouds is iceland´s tallest mt. called hvannadalshnjúkur at 2110m


our arrival at jökulsárlón




i´ll post the rest later. any comments welcome and i´d appreciate tips seeing all the quality work everybody else has done in the photography section.

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lotsofmagnets

ok, now to post the rest of the pics from theis trip before i forget..

more from jökulsárlón



taken through water




geothermal activity at haukadalur (geysir)




strokkur just beginning to erupt

crappy picture of strokku erupting


gullfoss






þingvellir








again justa few quick touristy snaps. some of these i cleaned up a bit but some are just as i shot them.

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

RangerJoe

Why in the hell do you think that you don't take good pictures? I'm scrolling down, thinking "oh! I like that one! Oh! My favorite!"... "No! I like that one!"

I can't choose. ): So many good shots. The waterfall shots were going to be my favorite, and then there was that last picture in your first post.

GAH. >.< Love it.

AND THEN AND THEN

After the first picture in your second post, I about lost it.

Wonderful. (:

Okay, I'm done boosting your ego. =P Very nice, though.

lotsofmagnets

hehe cheers for the support my ego is definitelly +1 :þ still, looking around here and the quality of photos it´s pretty hard to not feel like a man among giants. admittedly the photos of þingvellir (pronounced closest to "thingvetleer") are in the evening with way less than perfect light which is why the colours didn´t turn out as well. also i guess trying to capture a waterfall like gullfoss which is huge is a pretty big task and seeing what i have seen through my own eyes as a tiny picture really doesn´t do it justice (to me anyway.) still, i´m going to keep at it and on the better days get back into the super 8 (although that will be a bit hard to post here...)

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

JumpinJesus

Iceland is an absolutely gorgeous place and you've captured it well for us. If you've got more, don't hesitate to share them. I'd love to see them.

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Cynthetiq

thanks!!!!! great photos!!!

Skogafoss... no R. :P

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lotsofmagnets

thanks for pointing that out - i´m a stickler for correct spelling. still, there are street signs on laugavegur calling it laugarvegur...

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

KellyC

Those are some nice pictures/scenery. I'm envious.

Did any one see a face in this picture? It's on the right side.

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Cynthetiq

yes, that's an Icelandic troll or elf.... they are all over the place in Iceland.

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jewels

Wow! That's some magnificent scenery!

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Cynthetiq

the more I see this the more I guess I have to go through my photos and post them. I have thousands of photos from our many Iceland trips.

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lotsofmagnets

definitely curious to see others´ trip photos from here. this place changes so fast each time i go anywhere it´s completely different.

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Charlatan

I really want to go there some day... great shots.

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