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Hello! 👋😊

Busy IT company director, ex game graphic creator, most famously Novagen in the '80s.
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Sunset Flight

February: A plane crosses Bláfjöll above a cloud bank painted pastel peach and orange by the setting sun.

Reykjanes peninsula in south-western .

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A photo of a mountain range covered in snow, with some bare black rock crags visible. Above them is a cloud bank stretched from the left side of the shot to the right. Above that is some clear cyan sky into which a plane is flying. It's a small plane with its wheels down, the wings are at a 35° angle to the horizontal. The scene is lit from the right.
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    Floating Islands

    July: This is Hvalfjörður* in western . What looks like an island in the fjord is actually a spit of land curving away from the viewpoint.

    In the background is Skarðsheiði mountain range, with Skarðshyrna on the left.

    • ≈𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡-𝘧𝘺𝘰𝘳-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳

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    A photo of a summer landscape. The foreground is a body of almost still water, in the middle of the shot is green and brown vegetation across a small hook of land. A few small buildings can be seen, and a dozen or so white dots which are either swans or geese. In the background is a range of bare, brown-grey mountains, with dappled sunlight across the flanks. A little snow is visible as stripes near the peaks. Above them is blue sky with a layer of woolly grey cloud above. The whole scene is reflected in the still waters of the lake.
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    The Little Bridge

    Traffic crosses the Andakílsá river towards the hills of Brekkufjall, with Skarðsheiði mountain range beyond.

    August, Skorradalshreppur in western .

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    A landscape photo of green countryside scattered with wild flowers. In the centre of the shot is a line of craggy hills, mostly green with vegetation but with some grey rocky outcrops standing almost vertical. Behind them are some cloud-robed mountains, snow is visible on the peaks and in sheltered valleys on the slopes, but the rock is dark coloured. In the foreground is a road bridge crossing a part-seen river. A car has recently crossed and is travelling away, towards the hills. The sky is cloudy but sunlight is striking the hills from the left.
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    & G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

    I swear it was Friday when I woke up !
    Checked my watch , turns out it’s actually Wednesday 🤦‍♂️ 🤭
    In other news I got the strangest reply to a toot complimenting a Peeps cooking yesterday , not rude or anything , just strange… hey ho takes all sorts.

    Have a cracking day & remember : Don’t let ‘em Cash-ew !

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    @MaJ1 @weirdfolks
    My get-up-and-go has got up and gone. My VIC (Very Important Computer) has decided to fall down overnight and, despite having some top engineer type blokes on the scene, has refused to play nicely this morning. <sigh> Just what I didn't need. I was hoping to get outside for a bit of pleasant weather later today but that plan withered along with VIC.
    Dammit!

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    Cloaked

    September, and the vog from an eruption in a different part of is causing some unusual atmospheric conditions around the island nation.
    In this one, sunbeams are being intensified by the gaseous haze high above.

    Hekla in Þjórsárdalur.

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    "Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
    And after summer evermore succeeds
    Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
    So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."

    Cloud gathers in Þverárdalur valley, at the foot of Tungufjall mountain in Skagafjörður, north-western .

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    A photo of a snowy landscape. The foreground is scattered brush plants and a snowfield with a river valley carved through it. The sky is solid cloud but the scene is lit quite brightly from the right. Two mountain peaks are visible, the one on the right is a ridge line of ice-covered and layered black rock where the wind has scoured the face. On the left is a more compact peak, the left and right flanks are mostly visible as well as its wide top. Sitting at the mountain's foot is a bank of cloud, thick enough to obscure most detail of the scene behind it. The top surfaces of this cloudbank are being touched by sunlight.
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    Blue On Blue

    February: The frozen surface of Héraðsvötn river reflecting the cold blue sky above.

    Skagafjörður in north-eastern .

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    A photo of a frozen landscape under a blue sky with some scattered cloud. On the horizon is the end of a mountain chain, stretching away to the left of the scene. The foreground is a hard-frozen river with a small amount of snow cover and rippled cracks in its surface showing melt and refreeze. The opposite bank of the river is visible as a line of brown vegetation. The distant snow-covered mountains are reflected white in the ice surface. The sunlight is from the left. The scene is tranquil and peaceful.
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    Gone Fishin'

    A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) looking for lunch.

    Tuesday April 16th, Elie beach, in eastern .

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    A slightly different viewpoint today, this is the top of Goðafoss waterfall in Þingeyjarsveit, north-eastern . Water from the Skjálfandafljót river falls from a height of ≈ 12m (40ft) over a width of ≈ 30m (100ft) in four separate drops.

    This is a view from the west bank, overlooking the crest of all four.

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    A photo of a landscape, with a river flowing towards the viewpoint across rocks. There are hills in the distance and the sky is cloudy but with blue areas. The sunlight is from the left. In front of the viewer is what appears to be the edge of a cliff, the water is pouring over and down to an unseen place below. The mist in the air shows that the drop must be quite long, and some falling water can the seen on the cliff face opposite the viewer.
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    Shining Sky

    03:30 on an August morning, and insomnia had taken over again.

    Through the bathroom skylight I could see something strange above us, so I fetched my camera quietly so that I didn't wake anyone, and opened the blinds in an empty room.

    It was the best display of cloud I've ever seen in my almost 70 years.

    Then I woke my partner so he didn't miss it!

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    A photo of a dawn sky, quite dark but beginning to show the first signs of dawn with a line of orange-yellow on the horizon. There's a dark line of rooftops and trees in front of it, and a few lit streetlights. Overhead are ripples of soft light, very diffuse and subtle but with brighter lines within them. The effect is similar to a rippled liquid surface, or blue sand with shallow water flowing over it.
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    Ram Mountain

    This is Hrútsfjall (1857m/6092ft) in Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, south-eastern . The name literally means "Mountain of the Ram."

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    A photo of a mountain peak, lit from the right and under a cloudy sky. The peak is almost completely covered in snow and ice apart from the faces which have been warmed by sunlight or stripped by the wind. Where the rock surface is visible, it's a dark brown colour. At the top is a curved wall, similar to the vent created by a volcano but only about fifty percent of it remains. This oddly shaped half ring is filled with snow but no glacier is apparent. It's beautiful, but in an intimidating way.
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    "O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
    To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit."

    An afternoon stroll around Loch Leven, Boxing Day 2023.

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    A photo of a body of still water with small ripples across the surface. A line of dark bushes and undergrowth is on the horizon. Above it is a bank of cloud with the sun visible behind and through it, and over that is a stretch of clear sky. The cloud is strangely plaited, with diagonal lines dropping from the top edge towards the left of the shot, and from the bottom edge down towards the right. It's oddly beautiful.
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    Mother Of Pearl

    Polar stratospheric or nacreous clouds last Christmas.
    Due to their altitude of 15,000–25,000 m (49,000–82,000 ft) and the curvature of the Earth's surface, these clouds shine brightly before dawn or after dusk. Consisting of ice crystals, these form below −78°C (−108°F) and are now more common outside of the polar regions due to global warming.

    , eastern .

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    A photo of a sunrise, with stripes of orange-brown cloud on the horizon catching the first sunlight of the morning. Above a cloud bank lit from below the sky would usually still be quite dark, but on this morning the sky is full of strangely multi-coloured clouds, resembling a film of oil floating on a water surface. The visible colours are similar to those of a rainbow, but with less recognisable structure. These are almost like puddles of rainbow, with large patches of green fringed with blue, and yellow bordered by red. It's quite unearthly.
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    Dunder And Blixem

    Reindeer are not native to . They were imported from Norway during the 18th century to create stock agriculture in the country.

    These attempts seemed to fail as most of the animals couldn't tolerate the harsh weather conditions and limited food supply and they were assumed extinct, until a herd of roughly 100 was spotted in the east.

    As of today, there are about 7000 reindeer in Iceland.

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    A photo of a range of mountains in bright sunshine. There are multiple tall peaks, almost completely covered in snow and ice, and a small amount of spindrift snow is visible at the tops of a couple of them. At ground level there is yellowish-brown vegetation and, scattered around, there are reindeer grazing. About twenty of them are visible. The sky is clear and the scene is lit from the left.
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    Stormy Morning

    February, and the dawn light picks up the underside of a storm cloud, revealing a cellular pattern of mammatus pouches hanging below.

    Fife, eastern .

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    Red Sky In The Morning

    This has to be one of the most impressive sunrises I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot!
    Christmas morning 2020, and one of the best gifts that year was this stunning sky. Brief but gorgeous, complete with a sun pillar caused by ice crystals suspended in the cold air.

    in .

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    A photo of dawn. The foreground at the bottom of the shot is a line of trees, house roofs and street lights. Near the centre of the image the sun is rising, and a faint line of light extends upward from it. The centre and top of the shot are filled with the sky, which is full of streaky cloud. These have picked up the colours of the sunrise, and range from pastel lemon yellow, through orange and gold to a deep ochre orange. It's simply magnificent.
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    Pareidolia

    Today I decided to demonstrate that I'm not a one-trick Icelandic horse, and do actually photograph other things.

    I love spectacular weather, particularly crepuscular events like today's shot of a magnificent sunset.
    In case you're wondering about the title, it means to interpret objects into something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds.
    This one is my golden whale! What do you see?

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    A photo of a sunset sky, with wispy streaks of cloud against a darkening cyan sky. The clouds are picking up the hues of the setting sun, coloured from pale golden yellow to a deeper ochre. One cloud at the bottom right of the shot has more density than the wisps behind it, and is glowing yellow-orange on the lower side and a deeper brown ochre above. This cloud has odd features, an almost central lateral line and a crown of a smaller cloud above. It looks a bit like a whale, blowing spray into the sky.
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    & G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

    Tuesday has arrived, as scheduled, you gotta hand it to the folks that make calendars , I mean split second precision or what !

    Today I will mostly be reading about trees - it’s like tree hugging but more cerebral 😉

    Have a cracking day & remember : Don’t let ‘em Cash-ew !

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    Mornin' MaJ! 🤗🐿️

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    Elephant's Head

    This is Reynisfjall, a cliff face with famous basalt caves named Hálsanefshellir.
    The beach is Reynisfjara, one of the loveliest but most dangerous black beaches of .

    To get this shot, I had to get as far away as I could, turning my back to the sea. I was with my partner and he was watching the waves. I took the photo as quickly as I could, and we moved back to a safe distance from the sea.

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    A photo of a mountain face, with grey rock and green grass slopes. At the foot of the mountain is a grey, powdery beach, this is actually the sand which is black when wet. The middle of the rock face is comprised of vertical columns of basalt resembling an elephant's trunk and, on either side, there are two caves looking like the eye sockets on an elephant's head. There are a few people at the base of the cliff, taking photos.
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    "Even so my sun one early morn did shine
    With all triumphant splendor on my brow;
    But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;
    The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now."

    September: Snæfjallaströnd and Kaldalón in Westfjords, north-western .

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    A panoramic photo of sea and mountains. On the right is a tarmac road, surrounded by brown grassland, leading down to a gravelly beach. In the centre and left is a rippled fjord. In the centre is another promontory and, on the horizon, a line of misty mountains with lines of snow along their flanks. A deep cleft is visible in the mountains, and above the whole scene is a cloudy sky with a heavy grey bank of raincloud overhead.
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    & G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

    Bit tired after a rough night , but hey it’s Saturday !
    I appear to have beaten the auto-defect AI’s attempts to drive me insane - it was de-capitalising the first letter of a new sentence … I was not happy !

    Plans for today - hide from the storm!

    Have a cracking Saturday & remember : Don’t let ‘em Cash-ew !

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    Mornin', MaJ 🤗 Mornin', everyone! 😊
    A cracking Saturday wished right back atcha, monsieur squirl. Have the greatest of great days. Mwah! 😚

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    Edge Of The Ice

    Late February at midday, and the lake water is warm enough to stay partially liquid.

    This is Mývatn in Skútustaðahreppur, north-eastern . It's surrounded by - and contains - what are known as rootless cones, volcanic landforms without an actual vent below. These were probably caused by steam explosions when lava covered the wetlands.

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    A photo of a landscape with snow and ice. The foreground is brown vegetation with patches of snow, and the horizon line is what appears to be islands with a mountain beyond. The sky is clear cyan but with a fair amount of wispy cloud. The centre of the shot is filled by a lake, reflecting the blue of the sky where it's liquid, and with a coating of ice further from the shoreline. The low sunlight is from the left.
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    Lunar Snack

    February: A beautiful blue fjord beneath an almost clear cyan sky. A perfect day for driving, and a lovely area to drive through.

    Hvalfjörður in western , and Botnssúlur (1086m) looks as if it's trying to eat the moon.

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    A photo of a fjord beneath a clear blue sky with a few tiny wispy clouds. The water is surrounded by snow- and ice-covered mountains, strongly lit from the right. In the centre of the shot is the moon, almost perfectly half-illuminated, against a cyan background. The mountain directly beneath it has two peaks of nearly equal height, spaced slightly apart and directly below the half-moon, and a ridge line on the right of these peaks which looks like an eye. It's almost as if the mountain is the head of a man lying on his back with his mouth open, attempting to bite the moon.
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    Glacial Pace

    November, and the low midday sun highlights the contours of Breiðamerkurjökull and the clutter of blue ice that has calved from it.

    Jökulsárlón in Suðursveit, one of the many jewels of , tinged with sadness as melting is creating accelerating enlargement.

    Pronunciations:
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    A photo of an ice field. In the foreground are floating icebergs of assorted shades of blue and different shapes. No two are the same. Some have dark stripes where volcanic ash has deposited layers across the surface and been encased by subsequent icing. Some are ridged where layers have melted at different speeds. In the background is an undulating field of ice, flowing down from mountain peaks which form the horizon line. The ice is deeply ridged and crevassed. The sky above is slightly misty but blue, and the low sunlight is from the left.
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    Aurora Panorama

    One wonderful night in Berufjörður in eastern when we saw not one but two auroral displays.

    Mid-November and conditions were good, so we set up in our chosen parking spot at about 7pm. We were rewarded with a lovely 30 minute show.

    Going back to our hotel for dinner, we decided to try one more time before bed and returned at about 9pm. Within minutes, another glorious display lit the sky.

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    A panoramic photo of the night sky over a fjord. On the left is a lovely pyramidal mountain, and the range continues further down the waterside and across to the opposite shore on the right, all lit by moonlight which is behind the viewpoint. The sky is clear and full of stars, and a single band of bright green aurora is stretched from one side of the sky to the other. It isn't a completely smooth curve, there are flicks and kinks, and some small changes in brightness. Sharp eyes can perceive another, fainter band of green below the first. The scene is awe-inspiring and astonishingly beautiful.
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    Mountain Excitement

    Áreyjatindur at the head of Reyðarfjörður in Fjarðabyggð, eastern . The river in the foreground is Sléttuá.

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    A photo of a mountain in daylight. The sun is on the left of the shot and highlights the flanks on that side, except where another mountain casts its shadow. The rock faces are dark but mostly covered in snow and ice. The peak itself is quite triangular and on either side are brown slopes leading up to heights which are out of the shot. The sky is clear blue with a heavy stripe of cloud, and the foreground is brown earth with a river meandering through it.
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    Comet Comes

    Tonight's plan is to try to photograph 12P/Pons-Brooks just after sunset. The weather looks promising (that could change quickly) and we found a good dark area near to where we live. Fingers crossed for us please! 🤞

    Meanwhile, I thought you might like to see our best shot of Comet NEOWISE in July 2020. We had to wait until 23:30 to get a dark enough sky, this time it should be earlier.

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    50% Cloud

    We thought that we were unlikely to see the green dancer that night because of the weather.

    We were wrong.

    Egilsstaðir in eastern .

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    Double Crossed

    Low morning sunlight highlights the unusual texture on the mountain's flank.

    November: Kerlingartindur (867 m/2845 ft) in Berufjörður, eastern .

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    A photo of a landscape under a clear sky and lit from the right. The foreground is brown vegetation with scattered pools of water which have frozen over and are rimed with white ice. In the centre of the shot is a fjord, reflecting the blue sky. On the opposite bank is a chain of mountains, near the centre is one with a prominent peak. The summit is snow-covered but the flanks are brown rock, the texture of the lower slopes is an odd criss-cross pattern. This crosshatch is highlighted by strong shadows. A few white buildings are visible at its foot near the centre left, their size gives scale to the shot.
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    Thieves' Waterfall

    Þjófafoss (𝙏𝙝𝙮𝙤𝙬-𝘷𝘢-𝘷𝘰𝘴𝘴) in the huge lava fields of Hekla, whose foot is visible on the right. This 12 metre high vertical block falls has been greatly reduced in volume by the large hydroelectric system upstream.
    The mountain rising on the left is Búrfell.
    Rangárþing ytra, in south central .

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    Ice Giant

    The highest mountain in , this is Hvannadalshnjúkur (𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖-𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴-𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘰-𝘬𝘳𝘳)
    2110 metres/6922.5 feet tall, this peak is also the highest point of Oræfajökull volcano.

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    "Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
    And after summer evermore succeeds
    Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
    So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."

    Lón and Reyðarártindur beneath a huge lentoid cloud.
    Late August, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, south-eastern .

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    A photo of a summer scene, with a foreground of green grassland and rock dropping gently down to the coastline. On the left is an expanse of still blue water, and on the right is a scree slope on the side of a steep mountain. On the horizon is a misty mountain range, just visible in the distance and a clearer, closer mountain to the right of centre. Over the top of this mountain is a huge rounded cloud, stretching from the centre of the shot to the right side. The top is white and quite smooth, the underside is grey showing the density of the water droplets. It casts a shadow over the mountain beneath.
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    Lava Spire

    This is Hraundrangi (1114m/3655ft) in Öxnadalur, Hörgársveit in north-eastern , on a cold and misty December day.

    Its unusually sharp point - less than 0.5m² (5.4ft²) at the top - with the rest of the ridge is all that remains after much of the original mountain, Háafjall, collapsed in a rockslide centuries ago.

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    Pink Morning

    09:30 in mid-November, 66.15° North, 18.91° West.
    Sunrise at Siglufjörður in Fjallabyggð, north-eastern .

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    A photo of a snow-covered mountain range with some houses visible in the foreground, along with a string of lit street-lights. The mountains are tinted with cyan as the daylight hasn't reached them yet. In the sky above is the beginning of dawn; thin wispy clouds have picked up the pink tinge of early sunlight but the rest of the sky is clear cyan. It looks cold and foreboding, but filled with the promise of a new day.
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    Snow Coast

    February: The black sand beaches of Húnafjörður are freezing over.
    On the horizon, Vatnsdalsfjall mountain range is lit by the last of the day's sunlight.

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    A wide panoramic photo of a beach scene. The foreground is scrubby brown grass covered in snow with fences running horizontally along it. Beyond that is a black beach with waves breaking from the left. Most of the sands look frozen. A river is running from the right and into the bottom centre of the shot to join the sea. On the horizon is a range of snow-covered mountains, lit from the right. Above them is a cloudy, pale cyan sky.
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    Glacier Sunset

    August, 9pm, and the last rays of the setting sun warm the colours of the ice.

    Fláajökull ("Sloping glacier") in Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, south-eastern .

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    Velvet Mountains

    Driving south through Eyjafjarðarsveit in north-eastern on a blustery day in November. The fierce wind was cutting through the valley and, as it struck the icy faces of the peaks, it lifted spindrift that made the snow look soft and fluffy.

    The mountains are Möðruvallafjall (849m/2785ft) and Kerhólsöxl (967m/3172.5ft)

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    A landscape photo of a snow scene. An icy dirt road is snaking away from the viewpoint towards two impressive mountain peaks. On the valley floor there is brown scrub and small trees but the whole scene is ice- and snow-covered. The sky is overcast by a thick blanket of cloud but with pale cyan sky visible above. The curved mountains in the centre of the view are surrounded by loose snow that has been lifted by the winds and is suspended in clouds, making the hard ice look velvety and soft.
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    Split Screen

    Holuhraun of Bárðarbunga in September 2014.

    Low sunlight emphasises the ridges that this eruption has built around its fissures. For scale, the larger vent is about 500 metres long. The outgassing plume contains steam as well as more toxic gases, primarily oxides of sulphur.

    The larger vent was named Baugur - "golden bracelet" - and the smaller one on the right was called Krakki - "the kid"

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    A landscape photo of strange, wrinkled rock. In the centre of the shot towards the left side is a split in the earth with yellow, orange and red lava spitting from it in huge plumes. Another vent is on the lower right of the photo, this one is a lot smaller. Lava is streaming away from the fissures, towards the viewer from the small one and away to the top left from the larger vent. The scene is lit from a low angle, from behind the viewpoint. Billows of yellowish gas and steam are issuing from both vents, and the wind is sending the plume away from the viewer.
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    Middle Earth

    One of my favourite shots, taken at one of my favourite places.

    This is eastern between Berufjörður and Breiðdalsvík. It was late November and very cold but calm because, for once, the winds were quiet. We parked to take some shots of the sea, and I turned to look at the road behind us...

    ...And there was Búlandstindur, looking like something from Tolkien.

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    A winter photo of blue mountains surrounded by brown rock. The sky is overcast, with a block of high dense cloud but beneath it some cyan sky can be seen before another lower cloud bank takes over. In the distance is a chain of jagged mountains with snowy flanks, windblown down to the dark rock. Another similar mountain is on the right of the shot, but this one is pyramidal. The foreground has a modern road on the right and a ridge of brown rocks stretching across to the left and what looks like the edge of a bay.
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    Freeze Frame

    March: Sunbeams slice through the bitterly cold air to touch the hill tops.

    Close to Haukadalur in Bláskógabyggð, south-western central .

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    An almost monochrome photo of a snow scene. The foreground is in partial shadow as the sky is almost completely overcast. There are dark trees in a valley, lending scale to the shot. On the horizon a peak of ice and black rock is highlighted by sunbeams fanning out softly above the mountain top.
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    I found my motivation, long version of the short walk.
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    That's a lovely shot, Tim! I can smell the grass and fresh air!
    G'mornin' all 🤗

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    "Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes
    Some falls are means the happier to arise."

    February: Pretty Reykjafoss waterfall in Skagafjörður, north-western .

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    A landscape photo of an almost completely frozen waterfall, sunlit from the left. The sky is clear blue apart from a few small clouds, and on the horizon are some impressive snow-covered mountains. The middle of the shot is mostly brown rock with ice patches, but in the centre is a cascade dropping in little steps to a canyon in the foreground. The terraces that this falls is dropping onto are caked with thick crusts of ice and water is only flowing in a few small areas. The near bank of the rift is visible at the bottom of the photo, and is very icy.
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    Pastel Sunrise

    November, and dawn is at 10:30am. The sunlight hasn't reached the floor of the valley yet, but it's beginning to strike the south-east facing slopes of the mountains.

    Eyjafjarðarsveit in north-eastern .

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    A photo of a snow scene, following a black tarmac road covered in patchy ice as it winds through flat farmland towards a mountain range. Although the sky is lightening, the valley floor is still in some shadow. The upper slopes of snow-covered mountains facing the dawn are coloured by the rising sun and, overhead, a bank of thicker cloud is coloured with pastel peach pinks, yellows and oranges.
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    Pyramid Solitaire

    This beautiful stack of basaltic strata is Búlandstindur, between the fjords Berufjörður and Hamarsfjörður in the east of .

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    A photo of a lovely pyramidal mountain with a dusting of snow at the peak, with a blue sky above. More mountains can be seen in the distance. The light brown rock it's formed from is in strange, step-like pillars with the height of each column top decreasing as they're positioned further away from the central point. The result is a natural triangular peak very reminiscent of the Egyptian pyramids.
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    "Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;
    A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
    A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,
    A forked mountain, or blue promontory"

    ...Or, in this case, a UFO 👽😆

    Lenticular cloud above Reyðarártindur (710m/2330ft) in Lón, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, south-eastern .

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    A photo of a summer scene with blue sky and fluffy clouds. The foreground is brown vegetation but some green can be seen at ground level in the distance. On the horizon is a rugged bare mountain with grey flanks and a caldera-shaped saddle at the top. Hanging above the summit is a large disk-shaped lentoid cloud, pure white above and slightly greyish below. Its surface is smooth and almost featureless. The scene is lit from the right.
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    Morning Mist

    A cold but sunny morning in Thingvellir (Þingvellir) and the wraithlike fog is still hanging just above the ground.

    Miðfell (322m) in Bláskógabyggð, south-western .

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    A photo of a snow and ice covered mountain. Its low summit is softly curved and it's lit from the right. The foreground surface is icy and very little of the ground can be seen. The foot of a nearby low hill is visible on the left and that has brown scrub on its slopes. A farm fence snakes from near the centre of the shot to the middle right. In the distance and just in front of the low mountain is a bank of diaphanous mist stretching across the photo.
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    Big Blue Bursting Bubble

    The shot that every visitor waits for!

    Strokkur ("Churn") is a fountain-type geyser in Haukadalur geothermal area, SW . It typically erupts every 6-10 minutes and its usual height is 15-20 metres (49-66 ft), although it can sometimes reach up to 40 m (130 ft) high.

    Minerals which were dissolved in the water have gradually created friable siliceous sinter around it, known as geyserite.

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    A photo of a wet ground surface of pale brown mineral filled with puddles. In the distance is a row of trees and bushes where a couple of people are walking into the shot from the right. In the middle of the foreground is a large hemisphere of distinctly cyan water, in the process of emerging from underground. In the centre of the bubble's clear water is a billow of superheated steam, visible as white. The water surface of the bubble is covered by multiple, smaller bubbles, and it's obvious that the water is boiling.
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