Epic Icelandic Landscape without Church
Still avoiding waterfalls for now, I thought I would post some more shots from the side of the road on my road trip around Iceland. This one shot just a few minutes before the previous post “Epic Icelandic Landscape with Church” as I was descending out of the hills and the Eastern Fjords of Iceland onto the South Coast region.
The mountains in the Eastern Fjord region are stunning, at least the bits I could see. But as I had been driving through pea soup dense fog for about 40 minutes I was missing most of it. To make it even more fun it was an amazingly windy road. As I descended out of the mountains the mist cleared giving me a spectacular view over a primordial landscape of mountains, mossy lava fields and boiling skies… That is not this photo.
Unfortunately some idiot in an F250 truck was trying to shove his bumper up my exhaust pipe at this stage and there was nowhere to stop, so I had to wait until I was at the bottom of the very steep descent where the overly hormoned driver could pass me and I could pull over. So same valley, just a different viewpoint. I’ll get the other viewpoint next time, which will be next August 2015.
Image shot with the Hasselblad H4D-60 and 50mm f3.4 lens.