Seljalandsfoss

This waterfall is an icon of Iceland. Chances are pretty good that if you make it to Iceland you'll wind up seeing and walking behind this waterfall. Probably the reason that it's so popular is both it's accessibility and the fact that you can walk behind it, besides the obvious fact that it's quite beautiful and if you catch it at the right time in the right light, you'll see a rainbow almost without fail. The best time for this is of course sunset or late afternoon when the sun hangs low in the sky creating the proper angle for refraction to disperse in the water droplets and reflect to your eye in that multi colored hue we call a rainbow.

 

The challenge is finding a time when there isn't literally hundreds of people. We passed by this spot many times and it was so crowded with tour buses and what not we couldn't park, let alone take a photo. We kept skipping it until one day we were driving by and there was almost no one there! We quickly went over, and not more than a few minutes behind us of course a couple tour buses pull in. I was able to get a few shots off before the herds moved back in.

Done