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Exploring Thingvellir National Park, Iceland

Silfra, snorkling between the tectonic plates

Þingvellir National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site that is easily accessible from Reykjavik. It’s also known to be part of the “Golden Circle”. A very popular tourist area in Iceland. This national park was the first stop on our first full day in Iceland. We headed out early from our accommodation for our 9am Silfra snorkeling tour.

Silfra is one of the few, if not only, place in the world when you get to swim/snorkel between two tectonic plates. It’s the clearest water in the world, where you visibility is easily 100m deep. Floating/snorkelling between the American and Eurasian continentals plates definitely an experience. Be warned though, the water is absolutely freezing at 2 degrees Celsius. Even the thick dry suit provided by the tour company can’t stop you from feeling cold to the bone. By the time the snorkeling tour ends at the 30 to 40 minute mark, I couldn’t wait to get our of the cold. Getting out of your dry suit with frozen fingers was also quite the feat! The hot chocolate to warm us up at the end of our snorkel was a nice touch though.

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Exploring Rekjavik Iceland on foot

Exploring Reykjavik, Iceland

After spending a bit of time exploring the inside and outside of Hallgrímskirkja, we continued walking down the streets of Rekjavik, exploring the rest of the quaint city. Most of the buildings in Rekjavik are not particularly tall. The shops around the main shopping strips are at most 3 or 4 storeys high. The city is easy to walk around and navigate, but a map did come in handy. We walked around the old harbour district of Grandi, checked out the exterior of Harpa Concert Hall and took some photos at the Sun Voyager Sculpture.

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Hallgrímskirkja Church, Iceland’s most iconic church

We flew into Iceland from London Heathrow. By the time we got out of the Keflavak airport with our 4WD hire car it was mid afternoon and pouring rain. It took us around 1 hour to get to the capital. The first stop we made was to the iconic Icelandic church. Hallgrímskirkja is a Lutheran church located in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.Thankfully the rain had stopped when we got into the city.

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Floating Icebergs at Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

Jokulsarlon Icebergs, my favourite place in Iceland.

I managed to spend a bit of time during this holiday season editing photos from my Iceland trip. I’m only about a quarter a way through my Iceland photos. So far this image of the floating icebergs at Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon is probably my favourite. There is sometime very peaceful about this scene. It transports me back in time. To the moment when I was photographing this scene. It was late in the afternoon and the clouds had cleared up a bit. The light was beautiful at the time. I took dozens of shots here but this I think captures the beauty of the scene well.

I like this image so much that it’s my new wallpaper on my desktop computer. I’ve edited the photo to include my word theme of the year, patience. Every time I turn on my computer, I’m reminded of patience and tranquility. Hopefully it will serve as a constant reminder throughout the year. I’m also looking forward to posting one-image blog posts with more of a background story to the image rather than long form photo essays which I have done in the past. Thanks for stopping by today.

2017 Year in Review and looking towards 2018

Denmark, Western Australia. Easter long weekend 2017

As 2017 comes to an end, I think about what I achieved, what didn’t quite work out and what I’m looking forward to for 2018. The year has gone by very quickly. There were plenty of significant work events and a number of personal changes to my life. All in all, 2017 has been an interesting one. I’ve spent the last few weeks reflecting on my year and coming up with some goals for 2018. But before we get into that, lets see how 2017 went based on what I set out to do.

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