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Awesome to watch, from my Vancouver home, as the snow-capped North Shore Mountains turn rosy in the dying light of the setting sun.
The start of a new day on a hike to Lake Matheson.
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"Oh, give me a home,
Where the buffalo roam...
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word..."
(lines from a version of an American folk song, "Home on the Range")
Huge herds of American Bison, numbering in the hundreds of thousands once freely roamed the plains. Now, they are confined to small herds in parks and nature preserves. This herd of about 100 individuals freely roam (with the confines of) the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver, Colorado
Siglufjordur in North Iceland with its snowy peaks still yelling winter in May, being perfectly reflected in the cal waters of the fjord.
Ullsfjorden fjord in the Arctic region of Norway in a stitched panorama showing the cold beauty of its natural settings. It took a long exposure to show this since the entire landscape it shrowded in winter darkness with something like daylight being available for two scarce hours a day.
On a cold evening just as the sun was setting, I managed to get a shot of the distant cargo ships in the Burrard Inlet under sunset skies. Behind them can be seen Vancouver Island and some snow capped mountains.
Another view of Godafoss in Central-North Iceland which is supposed to wear its name because a law maker decided in 999 to convert Iceland to Christianity after which he allegedly cast the icons of the old Norse deities into this waterfall.
Tree are a poem the earth writes across the sky. Humanity cuts them down fro paper so we may record our emptiness. – Kahlil Gibran
Have a wonderful weekend everyone :-)
These Icelandic horses roam almost freely within large terrains but do belong to farmers and get their daily ration of hay. But otherwise they truly live like free horses, our there in the wild landscape never seeing a stable.
Olafsfjordur, one of Iceland's Northfjords, in a panoramic view on a glorious day of seasonal change in May, the mountains still remaining in deep winter while the weather claims its Spring :)
A very special and unique coastal landscape in North Iceland featuring tall, snow-covered peaks, fjords and grassy marshes which together are quite remarkable. Here a stitched pano of a rather large stretch of this coastline.
Iceland's Westfjords with their iconic mountains and fjords offer plenty of opportunities to enjoy unspouilt landscapes, stillness, beauty and solitude.
Driving along the Westfjords involves lots of fjord circumnavigation and also lots of "table mountain" crossings and I could not tell which of the two is more fun. But I remember clearly the moment when I stood here on top of one of those flat topped mountains gazing down into the next fjord, its mountain range and the beginning of a mellow sunset and I felt like nothing else in the world mattered but the moment .
I shot this extreme panorama (stitched from 12 images) whilst standing near Vatnsnes in North Iceland gazing over to the coastline along Skagastroend. I found these layers of snow-capped mountains, volcanic columnar basalt, hills of volcanic ash and the extremely sunlit rocky shoreline so utterly unbelievable, like a lecture book about geological strata and formations in Iceland.
This fantastic sight greeted us at our arrival at the Northfjords of Iceland near Siglufjordur. The beauty of those mountains is overwhelming and seeing them in Spring with their still dense snow cover but sunshine illuminating them and clouds casting fantastic shadow onto them is a sight that fills your heart!
Do I spot a future retirement home here? ;)
A little barn by the shore of the beautiful Ullsfjorden fjord in the Arctic region of Norway.
North Icelandic coast near Siglufjordur taking in the whole of this majestic coastal landscape with its massive snow-capped mountain ranges and beautiful fjords, its colours and weather moods. A moment in time which felt ever so precious.
another interior scenario of Iceland's remote Westfjords. I so loved this spot with a solitary homestead and farm dominating this valley in between those iconic mountain ranges in the Northwest of Iceland.
an instant from our 2 weeks roadtrip all around Iceland where we experienced kind of all four seasons within the lapse of those two weeks.
Iceland lies upon two tectonic plates, the American and the Mid-Atlantic one and those plates are moving creating a rift zone where they are drifting apart from each other. The position of that rift zone within Iceland has moved over the passage of millions of years. The mountain you see is Vatnsdalsfjall (the Lake Valley Mountain) located in Northwest Iceland where once that rift zone was located about 7 million years ago. The tall mountains you see are geological features that were folded up through the rift zone while the small hills in Vatnsdalur are not related to a old rift, but were formed in a huge rockslide down the sides of the mountains towering the valley. A very interesting and beautiful place to visit. (thanks for the information goes to DanÃel Freyr Jónsson)
Happy Fence Friday!
Travel impressions from parts of Northwest Iceland which I liked very much. Those fabulous mountain ranges went on for ever and ever.
Another view of Godafoss waterfall on a perfect Spring day, cold yet sunny, showing off all its glorious beauty. The place somehow needs those snow-capped mountains in the backdrop to showcase its most characteristic sight.
After having visited Iceland extensively I can honestly say that all of its landscapes are of great appeal to me but I've also noticed that some feel less "alien" and closer to home, like this one which reminds me strongly of Highland scenarios in Scotland.
I just realised how much I miss these coastal scenarios since it is aready several month since we were there. Once one has seen these beautiful pristine and ragged coastal stretches they will never get out of ones mind again.
Every stretch of our roundtrip brought new sights and insights and amazingly varying aspects of Iceland's mind-boggling diversity of mountain ranges and geological features.
This was during our first night by the shore of Ullsfjorden fjord. We saw first glimpses of what days later would become the stage of a two hours aurora borealis extravaganza. We noticed the green glow in the sky almost every night which seems to be a common thing in the Arctic region, but the true light show is harder to find :)
"I'm going fishing
I got me a line
Nothin' I do's gonna' make the difference
So I'm taking the time
And you ain't never gonna' be happy
Anyhow, anyway
So I'm going fishing
And I'm going today
I'm going fishing
Sounds crasy I know
I know nothing about fishing
But just watch me go
And when my time has come
I will look back and see
Peace on the shoreline
That could have been me
You can waste whole lifetime
Trying to be
What you think is expected of you
But you'll never be free
May as well go fishing"
- Chris Rea -
Southeast Iceland between Jokulsarlon and Hoefn offers splendid landscapes like this one where glaciers descends from the mountain ranges and hundreds of little ponds welcome birds for the warmer season on the Island.
A stretch of North Iceland's coastline with remarkable features. The sense of vastness and solitude is almost overwhelming when you stand there.
Iceland's Northfjords are quite a sight to behold with a very varied coastline, costal lagoons, bridges and causeways stretching over fjords like here at Siglufjordur.
A stitched panorama from archive shots of mine of last December's journey to the Arctic region of Norway. This is a partial view of Ullsfjorden fjord which we travelled up and down exploring the area, here on our way to Nord-Lenangen. The whole area is of immense natural beauty which in my opinion shines especially during winter.
Another beautiful Winter's day in Porteau Cove, Provincial Marine Park, BC
Stay safe and enjoy your weekend.