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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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last night it was mostly cloudy. In Myvatn we stopped at few locations without much drama in the sky, but when we arrived at the lagoon in Bjarnarflag the sky opened with red and pink colors. I used Nikon D4s and the 14-24 lens...

Cute Arctic fox cubs in a dim cave Most Icelanders have never seen a Arctic fox in nature. Many tourists and photographers go to Iceland without ever seeing one. This is probably mostly because in most parts of the country it is only searching for...