Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 14, 2016, 12:04:23 am
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If I went back now I'm sure I could do better, but these were 42 years ago. I'm posting partly because Rajan has expressed curiosity about what I saw back then.
1. View from Þórsmörk, a great hiking area.
2. The black sand beach at Vik.
3. An inland lake on the way to Mount Hekla.
4. A bubbling mudpit northeast of Myvatn.
More coming soon.
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Eric - thank you very much for posting these beautiful images. Loved all four.
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I especially like #2.
I wonder whether you have thought about processing these scans.
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All good, Eric, but the third is by far my favourite for its clean simplicity and elegant lines.
Jeremy
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I like them all and see the weather today is still as bad...
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Wonderful set, it is Iceland, definitely.
Edit: typo correction
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Thanks everybody.
Here are four more.
1. The wood bridge on the brand new Ring Road, intended to protect the highway from floods from volcanic eruptions under Vatnajökull glacier. I believe the bridge was washed away a couple of years later. I also think this is about where Jökulsárlón is now, though it wasn't yet a lake in 1974, and doesn't show on our 1974 tourist map. That the bridge is wooden is strange, as there are no Icelandic trees big enough to provide the lumber, which must have been imported.
2. A modest hydroelectric plant, near Skaftafell.
3. The summit of Mount Hekla, several years before and after eruptions, which were then occurring about every ten years.
4. An abandoned sod farm in the north.
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Another find set of images, an excellent addition to the first set.
Bravo, Eric and thanks for sharing.
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Eric,
Re. the wood - it could have come from the large amount of driftwood from Siberia that washes up in Langanes and along the Strandir coast.
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Eric,
Re. the wood - it could have come from the large amount of driftwood from Siberia that washes up in Langanes and along the Strandir coast.
Thanks for that, Rajan. We never got that far east. Next trip, maybe!
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Thanks everybody.
Here are four more.
1. The wood bridge on the brand new Ring Road, intended to protect the highway from floods from volcanic eruptions under Vatnajökull glacier. I believe the bridge was washed away a couple of years later. I also think this is about where Jökulsárlón is now, though it wasn't yet a lake in 1974, and doesn't show on our 1974 tourist map. That the bridge is wooden is strange, as there are no Icelandic trees big enough to provide the lumber, which must have been imported.
This picture wasn't taken where Jökulsárlón is. It is indeed over the plains where outflow waters coming from Vatnajökull glacier are and has been washed away by floods caused by eruptions. Jökulsárlón is further east.
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Thanks for that correction, Mlewis. My 1974 tourist map doesn't show Jökulsárlón, which I understand actually became a lake sometime in the 1970s.
And here is some Icelandic "wildlife."
1. Sheep wandering in an inland canyon.
2. An Arctic Skua, upset because I was getting close to its nest.
3. Icelandic ponies in Northern Iceland.
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These are wonderful, Eric. I think you'll find even Iceland has changed in all those years, geologically and socially!
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What a wonderful series, Eric. Historic in addition to artful.
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A pleasure to see the entire set.
2 imho a little more magic.
all the best,
sandro