Dyrholaey

OK, most of my Iceland photos are going to look pretty familiar I'll admit, but hopefully the fact that it was my first ever visit gets me off the hook a bit. Dyrholaey was one of the places I was most excited about with the epic sweeping view from the foreground rock to the sea stacks of Reynisdrangar on the horizon.

 

It's easy to be seduced by our favourite YouTube presenters into visions of epic skies and surging seas and the fact that it costs an arm and a leg to get here makes one almost demand it. But it's not like that of course. If I've learned one thing in these last 12 months, both in photography and in real life, it's that you just have to get on with it and deal with what gets thrown at you. In this instance, as with most of the week of our visit, we had flat grey skies, plenty of rain and benign conditions. I was just happy to be there gazing at this scene after what has been a difficult year, puffins skittering gracelessly across the scene in front of me with beaks full of sand eels to feed their young in the clifftop nests to the left of this scene.

 

A second visit to Iceland is already being planned. It's everything I hoped it would be, and then some.

 

 

Done