Author Archives: Andrew

Back to the Street

After a week of beautiful but desolate landscapes in Iceland, I fancied a bit of colour and vibrance from Cuba. This was the first shot in the list, and a bit intriguing. It’s definitely one way of keeping your car Continue reading

Thursday, September 1, 2011 in Cuba Travel Blog, Travel

Shoot Only Puffins, Leave Only Footprints

I was ready for a quiet day of mainly driving on Sunday. I was also ready to report a total of about 1800 shots taken, which is a bit lower than for the Cuba trip, not unreasonable given the slightly Continue reading

Sunday, August 28, 2011 in Iceland Travel Blog, Photography, Travel

Fire and Ice – Delivered

Saturday was when our tour really delivered on its “fire and ice” moniker. We started the day at the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon, where an edge of the enormous Vatnajokull glacier calves off into the sea. Whereas 100 years ago this Continue reading

Floating Ice

This is a small iceberg floating in the Jokullsarlon galcial lagoon – see post above for details. Continue reading

One from the Road

Saturday consisted of various views of the Vatnajokull glacier.  Here’s one taken by shouting “stop” at Finn when we saw a puddle which reflected this glacial tongue in good light. Thankfully his quick reactions didn’t cause an accident. Continue reading

Also from the “Foss a Siva”

Here’s another view of the field beneath the Foss a Siva. I loved the light, and the simple colour palette, and just wanted to share this with you. Continue reading

Other People!

We continued our move south-east on Friday, moving from the highlands down to the coastal strip, and round Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnajokull. We spent the morning at Landmannalaugar, which is a popular destination for all tours, so there were lots Continue reading

Sandwich Day

… and I don’t mean the nice ham and cheese one I had for lunch! 🙂 I asked for a less dramatic day today and got it. We started with a relatively short drive through a completely empty black sand Continue reading

Friday, August 26, 2011 in Iceland Travel Blog, Travel

Desert Flower

One of Thursday’s shots, showing the sparse vegetation a near a river contrasted with the black sand desert behind. Continue reading

An Eventful Day

Wednesday was a fascinating and rather eventful day. We started off gently enough with a group of locations around Landmannalaugar which were a combination of black hills streaked with almost fluorescent green moss, and colourful tarns surrounded by black, brown, Continue reading

Thursday, August 25, 2011 in Iceland Travel Blog, Travel

Glacial Panorama

This is a panorama from just one side of a small hillock near Hrafntinnursker which has a remarkable view. Bewteen this and a similar view the other way you can see no fewer than ten of Iceland’s glaciers. The one Continue reading

Pot-lert

This is a rather nice pollur (=”tarn”) near Landmannalaugar. I particularly like the red, green and blue palette. I’m beginning to get the hang of Icelandic pronunciation. It seems to mainly involve putting at lot of “t” sounds where they Continue reading