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Les phares orange font aussi partie du paysage islandais. Ici, le phare de Hvalnes.
Orange lighthouses are also part of the Icelandic landscape. Here, the Hvalnes lighthouse.
Finally got around to editing some more of the images I captured on my first photography trip to Iceland. The entire trip was marred with bad weather and poor light, (it’s amazing the difference light makes to an image), and I’m left wondering how much this scene would have been brought to life if only there had been a break in the clouds.
I shot this from the beach below Hvalnes lighthouse, I’m not sure the name of the mountain in frame but I did know I wanted to scramble across the rocks of the shoreline and use the movement of the tide to create some foreground interest. I used a polarising filter to allow me to slow the shutter speed to 1.3s and also try and cut some of glare from the water.
I’m currently spending all my free time trying to explore all the local remnants of the ancient North Yorkshire moors forest so it was a nice change from woodland to look at a mountain vista once more.
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Eystrahorn rises 756 metres from the shoreline of the Hvalnes, or 'whale peninsula', a small peninsula with a black pebble beach and lighthouse. This peninsula connects all the three horn mountains, with Vestrahorn and Brunnhorn mountains on the western side of the beach, and Eystrahorn mountain on its eastern side. The beach stretches for a few kilometres, with water on both sides that mirrors the surrounding mountains on calm days. It is an excellent location for bird watching and photography.
The mountain Krossanesfjall is an extinct volcano in Iceland. It is located in the southeast of the country not far from the town of Höfn. Part of Krossanesfjall is the famous Eystrahorn (also Austurhorn) rock outcrop. Eystrahorn is also called Hvalnesfjall, because of the now abandoned farm Hvalnes at its foot.
Der Berg Krossanesfjall ist ein erloschener Vulkan in Island. Er befindet sich im Südosten des Landes nicht weit von der Stadt Höfn. Ein Teil des Krossanesfjall ist die berühmte Felsnase Eystrahorn (auch Austurhorn). Das Eystrahorn wird auch Hvalnesfjall genannt, wegen des inzwischen aufgegebenen Hofes Hvalnes an seinem Fuß.
An early morning shot looking down the Ring Road towards the Eystrahorn mountains near Hvalnes. We stopped the night here and were treated to a glorious sunset, the Northern Lights and a wonderful sunrise.
The Hvalnes Nature Reserve Beach stretches endlessly along the Eystrahorn mountain. While the wind tugs at your hair, the only thing you can hear is how the waves move up and down the black gravel, sometimes rushing, sometimes gently trickling, in sync with the heartbeat of the ocean.
Am Berge "Eystrahorn" zieht sich endlos der "Hvalnes Nature Reserve Beach". Während der Wind an den Haaren zerrt, hört man einzig, wie die Wellen den schwarzen Kies mal rauschend, mal sachte rieselnd synchron mit dem Herzschlag des Ozeans auf und ab bewegen.
It was slight rain and cloudy day with fantastic scenery of Hvalnes Peninsula, south east coast of Iceland.
Eystrahorn – Krossanesfjall is on the south east shore of Iceland, 50 kilometers east of Höfn and 40 kilometers east of Vestrahorntogether with its more famous brother in rocky crime Vestrahorn another distinctive rocky mountain formation on the south east coast of Iceland.
GPS might not the exact point of this photo.
Have a nice day everyone! ❤️
A paradise for birds lovers - Djupirogur, Iceland
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It was such a wild morning when we went round the corner from Vestrahorn. It was one of those days where you had to park pointing into the wind otherwise you would lose your doors if the wind caught them. But having that forethought, unfortunately, that just meant you had to fight to open the door against the force of nature's fury.
We did manage to get out and stagger about on the headland next to the orange Hvalnes lighthouse that stands like the headstrong bridge structure of an oceangoing tug.
But seeking an image of black and white stripy beach we headed down to the strand that stretches as far as the eye can see, and is a feature of about half of Iceland's southern coast.
I did take a brief phone pano, and it looks good, but I also tried a four frame pano with the Nikon which is better in some respects, but less so in others. I should have made it five frames wide to include a bit more of the sea to the left. But, hey ho, you live and learn!
I see Gary had a wander on the black sand, but seems to have gone and hidden behind a rock again.
It was only a few hundred yards back to the car, but it was one of the most exhausting walks I can remember fighting uphill into that wind on deep loose black gravel. Rarely have I been more grateful to get back in a car!
Storming over Eastrahorn in a cloudy day with fantastic scenery of Hvalnes Peninsula, south east coast of Iceland.
Eystrahorn – Krossanesfjall is on the south east shore of Iceland, 50 kilometers east of Höfn and 40 kilometers east of Vestrahorntogether with its more famous brother in rocky crime Vestrahorn another distinctive rocky mountain formation on the south east coast of Iceland.
GPS might not the exact point of this photo.
Have a nice day everyone! ❤️
🌟🌟Explore June 13, 2026.🌟🌟
It was slight rain and cloudy day with low clouds and fantastic scenery of Eystrahorn, Hvalnes Peninsula, south east coast of Iceland.
Eystrahorn – Krossanesfjall is on the south east shore of Iceland, 50 kilometers east of Höfn and 40 kilometers east of Vestrahorntogether with its more famous brother in rocky crime Vestrahorn another distinctive rocky mountain formation on the south east coast of Iceland.
GPS might not the exact point of this photo.
Have a nice day everyone! ❤️
🌟🌟 Explore April 26, 2025.
A redone 5 shot pano from scratch using raw files and new techniques. This is from a trip to Iceland 10 years ago, I couldn't use the raw files effectively before, and have since learned how to use Luminosity Masks in editing. Also, there is a blizzard outside, and covid has stopped any interesting trips to places that beg to be photographed.
Eystrahorn is a rugged mountain located on the southeastern tip of Iceland, a few kilometres away from the Hvalnes peninsula.
This is Vestrahorn mountain on the Hvalnes peninsula on the south east coast of Iceland seen from the black beach. Half an hour after arriving the clouds had rolled in and I couldn't even see the mountains. I had wanted to visit this place for a long time. And now I want to go back.
I could see the possibilities of a reflected sunset shot with the Tofuhorn mountain in a partially frozen pond near the Hvalnes Lighthouse but the water had no reflections because of the strong wind. As sunset approached some nice rays were developing in the sky and against all hope, the wind died down for just long enough for me to get the mountains and the sunset reflected in the pond. A layer of ice is visible on the pond to the left.
31/03/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
This is Vestrahorn mountain on the Hvalnes peninsula on the south east coast of Iceland seen from the black sand dunes. This is not that far from Eystrahorn which is a little further to the east.
We had planned to go to Stokksnes to see Vestrahorn. And privately I had hoped we could carry on up to Hvalnes lighthouse on the south eastern corner of Iceland. But confronted by bitter weather we decided to take a look around the corner of Estrahorn and see what it looked like where the road teetered round the side and disappeared to the north.
We found the road threaded along the coast, notched into the mountainside, that sloped steeply from the summits down to the sea: great slopes down which huge boulders could accelerate down, to smash cars to smithereens where they crossed the road.
It was a cold and forlorn road, deserted, no comfort in the horizon. We went so far, no sign of civilisation and decided to quit. We would turn around, and start the long journey back along the southern coast , working our way back to Reykjavik
Hvalnes Nature Reserve at sunset with some wonderful radiating wind driven clouds streaming past the Eytsrahorn mountains, East Fjords, Iceland.
02/01/2020 www.allenfotowild.com
It wasn’t the way the white water was surging from the left into the steep shoreline before sliding across the beach and around the bottoms of my wellie boots before retreating back to the ocean. And it wasn’t the magnificently bumpy ridge line of peaks that crudely rose and fell along the length of Eystrahorn on my right. So what was it that was holding me back? Was the big bank of black sand just beneath where the mountain started really that much of a distraction? I decided it was and abandoned the shot. Told myself the composition hadn’t worked. Too much of not much filling a big corner of the frame. I had so many other shots to work through after all. Fourteen days of shooting had left me with more than one hundred groups of images, all of them stored in numbered folders and subfolders. I may have left the ordered discipline of an entire working lifetime in the tedious world of accountancy, but accountancy hasn’t entirely abandoned me. I can still find a use for the simple logic that took me there in the first place.
I’ll give you an example of those folders and their titles. Day 7.6 - Eystrahorn edge of beach. Day 7.7 - Eystrahorn focus stacks from rocks. Day 7.8 - Eystrahorn Long Exposures. Day 7.9 - Eystrahorn views towards Batman (yes, you did read “Batman” correctly). Day 7.10 - Eystrahorn from further along beach. It carries on up to Day 7.14 - Eystrahorn Pink Sky. Lee’s probably got one entitled “Day 7.10 - Dom getting in the flipping way again.” Total number of shots taken at Eystrahorn that afternoon? Exactly two hundred, sub-grouped into nine separate folders. We were there from mid-afternoon until after dark, by which time it was just us and a young chap called Brian, who came from Chicago and was gradually making his way east with his camera bag. Yes it was a very good day - an exceptional one in fact, but here’s the thing. Three years later, six of the nine folders remain completely untouched. This one, if you hadn’t already guessed, came from the first folder - Eystrahorn edge of beach. It was one of the compositions I’d been thinking about over the three years since Lee and I were last here on a disappointing morning when the mountains completely disappeared and took the colours with them, reducing what was left to a world of black and white. A morning on that first ever trip to Iceland when “bleak” wasn’t a big enough word and we wondered whether we’d ever be back here again.
Recently, fired by the latest trawl through the Iceland archive, I came upon this group of images taken from the eastern edge of the beach and decided I’d been much too self-critical. Ok, maybe that bank on the immediate right is on the plentiful side, but I don’t really care. Did you ever get a perfect shot? Nope, me neither. Eystrahorn is - or was at the time - a place apart from the many south coast hotspots that start rewarding the traveller at Seljalandsfoss and carrying on dishing out golden nuggets all the way to Vestrahorn, just a few miles to the west of here. It felt as if Eystrahorn had somehow remained aloof and unconcerned by the relative emptiness of the road that passed below its southern bulk. On the first visit here, we barely saw another person at all. This time, a steady trickle of visitors came and went, but without even a lonely fish and chip van to hold them here and have them forming a queue, they moved on before long. Only we stayed, exploring the expanse of rocks that fringed Hvalnes Lighthouse and filling our SD cards with a quiet sense of contentment.
I wonder how long places like Eystrahorn will continue to feel as wild and remote as this. In the space of three years we noticed a difference in other parts of the country. There seemed to be many more visitors this time, even though it was September and on the previous visit we’d been here in summertime. Those of you who’ve been to Iceland in recent times have reported continued increases in visitor numbers, with parking charges being introduced in some of the more famous spots. Of course, we’re part of the problem. Either that or we're part of Iceland's success story. I plan to return in the next year or two - I need to see this country again just to make sure it was real. But maybe next time it will be somewhere away from the big ticket tourist attractions, no matter how enticing they are.