Where Gods Drowned
In the North of Iceland, we of course also visited the famous Goðafoss, although the weather was not great. When we arrived, we parked at the “wrong” side, from which one has a more lateral view onto the waterfall, but we stayed there for quite a while trying to find some hopefully more unique compositions. However, it started to rain more heavily, and even though I really wanted to take some more images from that side, at some point I decided to pack up. Before I turned my camera off, I wanted to quickly check whether I had gotten at least a few good images, but the camera was frozen, no matter which button I pressed. I then though that a restart might fix everything, but the camera then did not turn back on again. At this point, I got a little nervous since I had just bought my Sony A7IV right before this trip and there aren’t many camera stores in Iceland where one could get it fixed or replaced.
Back in the camper van, we took our time drying off a bit, ate lunch and took a short nap after which it had almost stopped raining. Moreover, my camera was fortunately back to life working properly. So we got to the other side and finally photographed the more famous view onto this beautiful waterfall. Again, by the time we were fully set up, it started raining, but not as hard as before and so I continued refining my composition and took lots of long exposures while trying to somehow keep the filters clean of water droplets. Although I would have really loved to photograph this location at sunrise or sunset, I’m really happy how this turned out since I really like the texture and streaks in the water as well as the overall mood and atmosphere in this image. I hope you like it too!
PS: According to legend, around the year 1000 AD, after the adoption of Christianity as the state religion, the then law speaker threw the last pagan images of the gods into Godafoss and hence the title.
Where Gods Drowned
In the North of Iceland, we of course also visited the famous Goðafoss, although the weather was not great. When we arrived, we parked at the “wrong” side, from which one has a more lateral view onto the waterfall, but we stayed there for quite a while trying to find some hopefully more unique compositions. However, it started to rain more heavily, and even though I really wanted to take some more images from that side, at some point I decided to pack up. Before I turned my camera off, I wanted to quickly check whether I had gotten at least a few good images, but the camera was frozen, no matter which button I pressed. I then though that a restart might fix everything, but the camera then did not turn back on again. At this point, I got a little nervous since I had just bought my Sony A7IV right before this trip and there aren’t many camera stores in Iceland where one could get it fixed or replaced.
Back in the camper van, we took our time drying off a bit, ate lunch and took a short nap after which it had almost stopped raining. Moreover, my camera was fortunately back to life working properly. So we got to the other side and finally photographed the more famous view onto this beautiful waterfall. Again, by the time we were fully set up, it started raining, but not as hard as before and so I continued refining my composition and took lots of long exposures while trying to somehow keep the filters clean of water droplets. Although I would have really loved to photograph this location at sunrise or sunset, I’m really happy how this turned out since I really like the texture and streaks in the water as well as the overall mood and atmosphere in this image. I hope you like it too!
PS: According to legend, around the year 1000 AD, after the adoption of Christianity as the state religion, the then law speaker threw the last pagan images of the gods into Godafoss and hence the title.