12 minutes of sunrise

Kirkjufell sunrise
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Woke up at 2.50 am at Kirkjufell in Snæfellsnes peninsula. I was interested in getting a new perspective of the popular Kirkjufell mountain at sunrise. I walked for 15 minutes up the hill above the most photographed waterfalls and there is a waterfall which...

Kvernufoss waterfall

Kvernufoss
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Kvernufoss is a well hidden gem near the much more visited Skogarfoss waterfall. The plan was to go to Skogarfoss and hope for a good light. The plan changed when we arrived. The reason it is not as popular photo-location as Skogarfoss and Seljalandsfoss...

Search for motives in Vestmannaeyjar

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Yesterday we sailed to Vestmannaeyjar, sometimes called Westman Islands,  from Landeyjarhöfn harbor. For some reason I have not seen many landscape photos from Vestmannaeyjar Islands. Vestmannaeyjar is a town and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. We are going to stay there until...

Nightcrawling at Snæfellsnes peningsula

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Sleeping at day, photographing at night. This is life. Last night I was at Svörtuloft in Snæfellsnes peninsula and photographing the sunset. Later I drove to the other side of the peninsula and photographed the sunrise at Malarrif with the Lóndrangar rocky peaks in...

The life and death of arctic foxes in Iceland

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  A penetrating howling of a arctic fox woke me up from my slumbering consciousness where I was sitting staring into the snow. I looked up from the snow-shelter where I had been sitting all day staring into the nippy and drifting snow. I saw...

Ground photos of the eruption

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Now I have gone twice by plane and last Thursday few friends  of mine and I went by an old Land Rover from Akureyri to the eruption site in Holuhraun (tourists call the site Bardarbunga which is wrong - Bardarbunga will possibly erupt, but...

Volcanic eruption in Holuhraun in Iceland

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I had only seen cellphone photos of the eruption on second of September when me and my wife Gyda Henningsdottir flew over the eruption site in Holuhraun. I had contacted a pilot who was ready when the call came. The weather had been bad...

Dettifoss in danger due to possible eruption

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For the past few days there have been speculations in the icelandic media about possible volcanic eruption in Bardarbunga volcano which is in the Vatnajokull glacier. There are indications that Bardarbunga is possibly going to erupt in the northern part of Vatnajokull glacier. If...

Icecave in Landmannalaugar

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Yesterday we came home from a four day photography session. We hiked in some of the less known areas of Landmannalaugar and found this cave. Since the light difference is great I took two photos, one for the light outside and another one for...