The Northern Lights in Iceland, a natural light show far too wondrous to be captured in a single photograph, but here's my best attempt. Sony World Photography Awards 2015 - Portugal National Award Winner
Northern lights mystically fuming over a cemetery and and a small chapel, near Reykjavik. It's brilliant how the tombstones and crosses are all lit up, creating this insanely incredible light show.
Northern lights swirling in the sky, somewhere in Iceland.
Getting to the Vatnajökull glacier ice cave, the largest glacier in Europe, implied driving through the receded glacier's smooth gravel rocks bed. Our intrepid ice cave guide Helen decisively trenched the hilly 'paths' leaving us about one km trek away from the caves entrance. Crampons attached and all geared up, we slowly headed for the entrance, right on the front of the huge glacier's edge. The glacier is truly massive and one only gets a real feel of the size when standing at its tip. Entering the cave was relatively easy, stomping through fresh snow now over a crack in the caves ice. After crossing the stream of water (harness required), we get to the main nave of the cave. There's blue light everywhere seeping through the ice ceiling. The ice walls were soft and smooth to touch. Snow had delicately piled up from vertical openings on the glacier, leaving several cones inside the cave. The sounds of water flowing around us were reverberated on the ice walls. The cave goes on across the river bend, behind other snow cones and fading into the darkness. Though icy the cave is inconspicuously warm, even more with the added fire light. What a magical place!
The ice walls were soft and smooth to touch. Snow had delicately piled up from vertical openings on the glacier, leaving several cones inside the cave. The sounds of water flowing around us were reverberated on the ice walls.
Inside the cave, looking onto where the glacier water stream goes on fading into the dark, snow delicately piled up under an opening through the massive ice ceiling.
Just after daybreak, icebergs are picture frozen afloat the blue Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. There is no wind, the atmosphere is cool and silent, blissful. Everything is still, white, blue and beautiful. These icebergs will be carried out into sea by the lifting tide and transform into cristal clear ice rocks laying on Jökulsárlón beach. What a phenomenal landscape.
Another view of the Jökulsárlón iceberg lagoon, a truly stunning location. In the background you can see the glacier tip spanning 5 km between the snowy mountain ranges. These icebergs will be carried out into sea by the lifting tide and transform into cristal clear ice rocks laying on Jökulsárlón beach.
He was not minding anything else other than his stroll - either the ice cold waters nor the slippery ice - walking as if possessed.
A young man skipping from iceberg to iceberg, like stepping stones on a creek, but not without falling a few times into Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon's icy Winter waters.
Frozen ice drops create the most interesting natural chandelier forms after water level drops at Þingvellir National Park.
The Sun Voyager, the ode to sun. In this particular case, to the winter rising sun! It's located near the sea shore line in centre Reykjavík, Iceland.
I just love this place. The Jökulsárlón glacier blocks of ice lay on the black sand beach after drifting out out the stunning iceberg lagoon. What a stunning location, I can't way to go back. :)
One more shot of this stunning location, this time of some of the drifted ice blocks scattered all over the black sand beach, lining up to the snowy mountains.
Following the first photo of this beach, this current shot shows the deep black of the sand filled waves clashing against the ice rocks, a par with the smooth black sand beach. In the background there's a huge beautiful blue iceberg.
Seljalandsfoss is one of the most iconic waterfalls in Southern Iceland, and one can actually go around it if weather permitting.
The Strokkur geyser spews hot geothermal water into the air every few minutes and is a good reminder that Iceland is mounted on fiery boiling grounds, though unseemingly disguised under all the ice and snow. Fire does lie beneath, and Eyjafjallajökull is problably what most of us associate with the terrific (or terrifying?) volcanic activity the island, when the second eruption occurred underneath dozens of meters of glacier ice and exploded ash into central Europe's skies a few years back.
The Hvítá river flows down two steps at Gulfoss, 30 meters high, a crisp turn carved through the black rock bed.
iceberg blocks resting on the beach.