Skogafoss
I thought I'd break the recent North Wales glut for a while and return to the big adventure from last summer. We spent a week in an ageing VW Campervan, affectionately known as "Brian," touring all too rapidly around Iceland's ring road in a clockwise direction, stopping at a number of carefully chosen locations. Admittedly this meant we took photos in lots of places seen many times before, but then again you can hardly ignore sights like Skogafoss just because a million other photographers have already shot this classic view can you?
Because it's only a couple of hours south east of Reykjavik, this was our final location, and one of the places we were most excited about. The waterfall has a single drop of 60 metres, and while there are taller, broader and scarier rivals to compete for attention, there really is something majestic in Skogafoss. Before you shoot, just stand and behold it for as long as your senses demand. Bring a pair of wellies in your hold luggage so you can stride into the middle of the stream (as I did here) and plant your tripod joyfully into the flow if it's not too fearful. It's really quite something, a regular star of the screen in fact. Game of Thrones recently enhanced it by adding a second tier, although I didn't actually notice while I was watching that episode and had to be told about it afterwards.
This was the first shot I took here, before moving forwards and posing under the waterfall several times in front of a bemused audience before achieving the desired result. I posted that one a few months ago - it's in the same album as this one if you want to have a look. I was still drying out on the plane home the next today, although pouring coffee over myself in the departure lounge at Keflavik didn't really help.
Iceland. I still yearn for it, especially when Mads Peter Iversen uploads another film of the secret highlands accessible by off road vehicles alone onto his YouTube channel. It's as expensive as it is extraordinary, but that's not going to prevent another visit in a different season before too much longer.
Skogafoss
I thought I'd break the recent North Wales glut for a while and return to the big adventure from last summer. We spent a week in an ageing VW Campervan, affectionately known as "Brian," touring all too rapidly around Iceland's ring road in a clockwise direction, stopping at a number of carefully chosen locations. Admittedly this meant we took photos in lots of places seen many times before, but then again you can hardly ignore sights like Skogafoss just because a million other photographers have already shot this classic view can you?
Because it's only a couple of hours south east of Reykjavik, this was our final location, and one of the places we were most excited about. The waterfall has a single drop of 60 metres, and while there are taller, broader and scarier rivals to compete for attention, there really is something majestic in Skogafoss. Before you shoot, just stand and behold it for as long as your senses demand. Bring a pair of wellies in your hold luggage so you can stride into the middle of the stream (as I did here) and plant your tripod joyfully into the flow if it's not too fearful. It's really quite something, a regular star of the screen in fact. Game of Thrones recently enhanced it by adding a second tier, although I didn't actually notice while I was watching that episode and had to be told about it afterwards.
This was the first shot I took here, before moving forwards and posing under the waterfall several times in front of a bemused audience before achieving the desired result. I posted that one a few months ago - it's in the same album as this one if you want to have a look. I was still drying out on the plane home the next today, although pouring coffee over myself in the departure lounge at Keflavik didn't really help.
Iceland. I still yearn for it, especially when Mads Peter Iversen uploads another film of the secret highlands accessible by off road vehicles alone onto his YouTube channel. It's as expensive as it is extraordinary, but that's not going to prevent another visit in a different season before too much longer.