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Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon and Fagrifoss Waterfall, Iceland

Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon and Fagrifoss Waterfall

The morning we visited Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon was pouring with rain and the sky was gloomly. Nonetheless we preserved. Even in the rain the canyon looked awesome. the green, the flowing river. We pretty had the whole area to ourselves. There’s also a little known waterfall Fagrifoss in the area as well. If we could fly a drone, we would have gotten some awesome shots, but alas rain. Even though it’s not a very popular tourist spot since it’s a little out of the way, I really liked it for that very reason! You feel like you have all the space and greenery to yourself.

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Vik and Reynishverfi’s Black Sand Beach, Iceland

Vik Church

In my previous blog post, I posted up a HDR shot of the Church in Vik and also the town of Vik. This blog post focuses on the Church, the town of Vik and also the black sand beach. I managed to capture a panorama of the town of Vik by climbing up a hill and shooting from a higher vantage point. After our visit to Vik, we made our way to the very popular (and sometimes deadly) black sand beach. The beach is famous for it’s black sand, basalt columns and giant rock formations in the sea. Unfortunately it has also been known to take lives as the waves along the beach can get quite large at times. There were plenty of warning to tourist to not turn your back to the beach. We spent a bit of time here as the sun was setting, taking long exposure photos and walking along the beach. There was even a fashion shoot going on at the time.

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Technocolour: The Church and town of Vik, Iceland

Church In Vik in HDR

The red-roofed church in Vik is one of the more iconic buildings in Vik. After Dyrhólaey, we drove to the town of Vik to visit this church. We parked at the empty carpark and took the short walk up a hill to get to this vantage point. From here we could see the church and the streets and houses of Vik in the foreground. While in the background the sky was vibrant in the late afternoon light.

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Dyrhólaey, Iceland

Dyrholaey, is located not far from the town of Vik. The drive up to the cliff carpark is a little bit windy and narrow, especially when you have two cars trying to pass each other. When you get to the top, you do get a pretty good view of Dyrholaey Arch and the expansive black sand beaches. As we arrived in the area late in the afternoon, the light was great for photography (even better in Vik, more on that in future blog posts). The Dyrholaey lighthouse is a century old building, impressive and stoic. It has the staple Icelandic lighthouse architecture.

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Plane Wreck on the black beach at Sólheimasandur, Iceland

This is my favourite shot of the (in)famous Icelandic plane wreck. The plane is an abandoned US Navy DC plane which crash landed back in 1973 on the black beach at Sólheimasandur. It was one of the cooler places we visited in Iceland. The walk to the wreckage is around 45 minutes to an hour. Make sure you have a few hours to visit the plane wreck. The scenery that greats you on this walk is the barren black land that seems to span to infinity. In the far distance to the side you can see some mountains. When we were there, there were plenty of tourist climbing and posing on top of the wreckage.

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