During our 2021 Iceland trip, I went off by myself one night to go find this hidden glacier bay. I traveled a long distance down a path (calling it a road gives it too much credit…calling it a off road trail or path is probably more accurate).
Once I got to the end, I climbed a large hill to find the glacier lake and glacier coming down the mountain. From the front of the lake, I flew the drone over a mile to get to the start of the glacier and captured this photo looking straight down.
Both of our trips to Iceland were amazing. I don’t know if there will be a third, but I’m hoping someday.
I took this photo near Diamond Beach, inside Jokulsarlon Iceberg Lagoon on the southeastern coast of the country. Wonderful spot.
I’m sure on Super Bowl Sunday my post should be football related. But I’ve been thinking a bunch about our 2021 Iceland trip. So, you’re getting this photo from the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon on the southeastern side of the country. Great spot!!
Vatanjokull, a huge glacier, takes up a large part of Iceland in the southeastern corner. This specific portion of the glacier, which is called a tongue, was right behind our hotel. Well sort of right behind…more like 4 km down an extremely rough trail that required a 4-wheel drive vehicle.
If you don’t know, a glacier tongue is a small finger shaped portion of a glacier that usually comes down off the mountain. The scale of this tongue and the entire glacier is impossible to understand in this photo. Sometimes a photo just doesn’t do a location justice (think about trying to capture the beauty of the Grand Canyon in a photo). You’ll have to trust me when I say, what you can see in this photo is probably less than 1% of the entire glacier.
Again, you can’t tell from this photo, but there are dozens of icebergs in the water that have broken free from the glacier. I didn’t know either until I piloted the drone over them. The distance from where I took this photo to the icebergs in front of the glacier was just over a mile. I guess that gives you some sense of the scale.
I had this wonderful spot all to myself from about 9pm to 11pm. It wouldn’t surprise me if I was the only one to visit this spot all day…. Just based on the condition of the trail and the location. You could tell it doesn’t get many visitors like Iceland’s more popular spots.
Earlier this week, I took a quick trip into Pittsburgh to capture some photos…. You know how it goes (or maybe you don’t), if I haven’t taken any photos in a while I get a little antsy… Can you say photography addiction? To the point, I was outside at below freezing temperatures to take pictures. That’s crazy addicted! Anyway, the first step is admitting I have a problem. So, I met a few other addicted folks (Dave and Brad) and we took some photos.
This is one I captured under the Fort Duquesne Bridge that crosses the Allegheny River before it joins the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River, which as you know eventually helps form the Mississippi River near Cairo Illinois.
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Back in July I posted a picture on my blog from this area of
Iceland. You can see that HERE. Along with information about this
location, how the iceberg are created, where they go, etc… I liked this location so much, I
decided to share another photo with you.
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Vatnajokulsbjoogardur Glacier on the southeastern side of
Iceland is one of the largest glaciers in the world. One of the glacier tongues reaches down to Jokulsarlon lake
where the glacier calves off and forms new icebergs. The icebergs float through the lake, down through a small
river and get dumped into the ocean.
This is an HDR image of one of the icebergs with the glacier in the
background.
This was one of my favorite locations in Iceland. I don’t think the picture does this location any justice. It was very cool and I could have spent hours and hours here.
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