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Gullfoss is a massive waterfalls in the “Golden Circle” east of Reykjavik. The day we were there, it seemed that every thing was frozen. The flow was very small. The lower level where you can get closer to the waterfalls was close due to icy stairs. Later on, we saw something quite rare, at least for us, the moon at the East and the Sun at the West above the horizon…it was pretty cool to see. I got to tried my in camera double exposure where I shot the moon with my longest zoom and then the waterfall at the widest end. Near by is Strokkur is where you can see Geysir, a medium size geyser that would explode every 8 to 12 minutes and sometimes a double explosion a big one followed by a smaller one. .
Rainbow over Gullfoss. I spent 4 years in Iceland, and this is the only time I caught a rainbow (June 1984). Shot on Fuji film, with my trusty Nikon FE.
A particularly dull cloudy day at the Gullfoss Falls in Iceland but that cannot detract from what was an amazing location!
Returning to Iceland. I was lucky enough to have Gullfoss to myself as the Sun made it above the horizon, but it would have been good to have had a single figure by the falls for scale - a bit too far away for me to reach in 10 seconds. The upper falls are about 10m high while the drop into the gorge is about 20m, about 100 cubic metres of water go over every second!
Powerful Gullfoss is one of the most popular destinations on Iceland. I had an easy time understanding why. This place is incredibly beautiful!
The Gullfoss („Golden Falls“) is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country of Iceland.
Brute and stunning is the feeling that you get when thousands of liters of water are falling in the chasm. The roaring of mother nature is absolut and beautiful to watch. It’s a location where movie scenes have been shot! Pristine and unspoiled nature at it’s best!
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Gullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Iceland. The wide Hvítá rushes southward, and about a kilometre above the falls it turns sharply to the right and flows down into a wide curved three-step "staircase" and then abruptly plunges in two stages (11 metres or 36 feet, and 21 metres or 69 feet) into a crevice 32 metres (105 ft) deep. The crevice, about 20 metres (66 ft) wide and 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) in length, extends perpendicular to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running down the waterfall is 140 cubic metres (4,900 cu ft) per second in the summer and 80 cubic metres (2,800 cu ft) per second in the winter. The highest flood measured was 2,000 cubic metres (71,000 cu ft) per second.(Wikipedia)
view on black -- Explore #69
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Gullfoss (la « chute d'or ») est une succession de deux chutes d’eau d’Islande situées sur la rivière Hvítá. Son nom provient de l'arc-en-ciel que l'on peut souvent voir au-dessus. (source Wikipedia) (pas sur cette photo, le soleil était... comment dire... un peu timide)
Mais le plus important c'est que l'endroit est absolument impressionnant et magnifique, par sa grandeur mais aussi par le paysage désolé qui l'entoure, les pierres et les mousses, la texture de cette eau tumultueuse...
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Gullfoss (English: Golden Falls) is a waterfall located in the canyon of Hvítá river in southwest Iceland. (source Wikipedia)
Its name comes from the fact there is very often a rainbow over it. (but when i was there the sun was a bit shy... as you can see)
But the most important thing is that this place is so wonderful ! Because of its greatness but also because of the desolate landscape all around, the rocks and mosses and the texture of this turbulent water...
Gullfoss, the "Golden Falls" of Iceland, as seen on our family vacation in August, with a partial band of a rainbow in the mist being thrown up from the falls. Like Kirkjufell, this is an incredibly busy tourist site, especially in August, and I didn't spend a lot of time looking for novel framing here (I was mostly trying to keep my lens dry–this one throws up an enormous amount of mist.)
Nikon D750 w/Tokina 17-35 @ 35mm, 1/640s @ ƒ/8, ISO100. Color finishing in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
Gullfoss is a massive waterfalls in the “Golden Circle” east of Reykjavik. The day we were there, it seemed that every thing was frozen. The flow was very small. The lower level where you can get closer to the waterfalls was close due to icy stairs. Later on, we saw something quite rare, at least for us, the moon at the East and the Sun at the West above the horizon…it was pretty cool to see. I got to tried my in camera double exposure where I shot the moon with my longest zoom and then the waterfall at the widest end. Near by is Strokkur is where you can see Geysir, a medium size geyser that would explode every 8 to 12 minutes and sometimes a double explosion a big one followed by a smaller one. .
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L'un des plus beaux sites islandais : la Chute d'or ou Gullfoss. La rivière Hvitá, en provenance du Langjökull, se jette dans une gorge en double cataracte. Son nom est issu des fréquents arcs-en-ciel qui jaillissent de son nuage d'embrun.
One of the famoust islandic place, the Golden Falls or Gullfoss.
La doble e impresionante cascada de Gullfoss, es uno de los monumentos naturales más visitados de Islandia. A ello contribuyen dos elementos. El primero su belleza y espectacularidad. Se trata de una cascada creada por la ruptura de las placas que crean el paisaje islandés. Un inmenso bloque de roca roto y quebrado ha creado el salto de agua al desplazarse. La falla ha sido horadada y ampliada a través de las eras por el río Hvítá que significa río blanco. El segundo factor es que la cascada se encuentra muy cerca de Reykiavik lo que hace que forme parte el Círculo dorado, la ruta turística más popular y accesible de Islandia.
The beautiful Icelandic waterfall. Called the 'Golden' waterfall for several reasons apparently -
1. The glacier water is not pure white, having a golden cast, not that we could really detect it when we visited! This is apparently due to the silt that the glacier deposits in the river.
2. An ancient chieftain became very rich, and before he died, he threw all his gold into the river at this point, and this is why a rainbow forms.
3. It is a part of the Golden Circle - a tour of the geothermal spots of Iceland
Gullfoss is in the river Hvítá (engl. white river), which has its origin in the glacier lake Hvítávatn (engl. white river lake) at Lángjökull glacier about 40km north of Gullfoss.
The waterfall Gullfoss
The waterfall Gullfoss © Tobias Klose, Scuba Diving in Iceland Glacial water is brownish, since it carries lots of sediments that the glacial ice has carved off the earth. Gullfoss is called the "Golden Falls", since on a sunny day the water plunging down the three step staircase and then tumbeling in two steps down into the 32 m deep crevice truly looks golden.
To stand at Gullfoss and wallow in the beauty and the wonder of nature is an uplifting experience. One feels more energetic when leaving Gullfoss than when arriving. That's the impact these unique nature sites such as Gullfoss and Geysir have on us.
Sigríður Tómasdóttir, the daughter of Tómas Tómasson who owned the waterfall in the first half of the 20th century must have felt the same. She lived at a farm nearby and loved Gullfoss as no one else.
At this period of time much speculation about using Gullfoss to harness electricity was going on. Foreign investors who rented Gullfoss indirectly from the owners wanted to build a hydroelectric powerplant, which would have changed and destroyed Gullfoss forever.
As the story goes it's thanks to Sigríður Tómasdóttir that we still can uplift ourself with the beauty of Gullfoss, because she was the one that protested so intensly against these plans by going as far to threat that she would throw herself into Gullfoss and therby kill herself.
To make her threat believeable she went barefoot on a protest march from Gullfoss to Reykjavik. In those days the roads weren't paved and when she arrived after 120 kilometers her feet were bleeding and she was in very bad shape.
The people believed her and listened and the powerplant at Gullfoss was never built.
Today one can see the memorial site of Sigríður that decipts her profile at the top of the falls.
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Gullfoss Falls in southwest Iceland is one of the more popular and mighty waterfalls. It flows over three levels with the final plunge going into a gorge. Flows range from 80-140 cubic meters per second with the record being 2000 cubic meters per second.
La chute d'Or.
Cette double chute perpendiculaire sur la rivière Hvítá est une des plus spectaculaires d'Islande.
Gullfoss (golden falls) is a waterfall located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.
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Gullfoss (la "chute d'or") est une succession de deux chutes d’eau d’Islande situées sur la rivière Hvítá. Son nom provient de l'arc-en-ciel que l'on peut souvent voir au-dessus. D’une hauteur de 32 mètres et d'une largeur de 70 mètres, elle se trouve à quelques kilomètres du site de Geysir et forme avec celui-ci et Þingvellir le "cercle d'or", une attraction touristique très populaire.
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Gullfoss (English: Golden Falls) is a waterfall located in the canyon of Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.
Gullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. The wide Hvítá rushes southward. About a kilometer above the falls it turns sharply to the left and flows down into a wide curved three-step "staircase" and then abruptly plunges in two stages (11 m and 21 m) into a crevice 32 m (105 ft) deep. The crevice, about 20 m (60 ft) wide, and 2.5 km in length, is at right angles to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running over this waterfall is 140 m³/s in the summertime and 80 m³/s in the wintertime. The highest flood measured was 2000 m³/s.
Una de las cataratas más impresionantes Islandia. El alto spray de agua que se desprende forma un constante arco iris que la envuelve de punta a punta. Lugar imprescindible de la ruta del Círculo Dorado.
No photo I took of Gullfoss did it justice, the lower area was fenced off due to the poor weather earlier in the day so it was quite tricky trying to get a photo.
The sheer size of these falls is incredible.
Gullfoss （黄金瀑布）冰島超大型瀑布之一。中午時分在上部拍攝的話可以看到由陽光穿透着正在蒸發的細小水珠而形成的黃金顏色，非常美！從照片右邊半冰封的小路可以直接走到瀑布心臟，往心臟途中你會越來越有壓迫感！