Skiðadalur, Monday evening, the forecast was too good to pass, so I quickly packed some warm cloth and food to spend the night outside. The moon was full, the sky clear, the Northern Lights a little shy but they came for a short while and danced a little. Away from the city lights, at the end of the valley, sheltered from the wind by the trees, everything was just perfect.
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No photo gallery just yet of the Northern Lights, but I did take hundreds of photos that night, so I made a couple of timelapses which are both available on youtube:
There is no way to do justice to the colorful show that Icelandic sunrises and sunsets offer. Although we are losing daylight fast, about 10m a day, with the sun currently rising by 10h30 and setting down again just around half past three, the wonder of it is that the entire day is made of the succession of a long sunrise, followed by a long sunset.
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A series of portraits of Iceland Horses from Tumabrekka in Skagafjordur. They are very curious so when you are fixing fences they will come and check out what you are doing (especially if they know there is hay on the other side of the fence. Of course I could not resist the temptation and took some photos....
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While working in a farm in Skagafjordur, North of Iceland, I had the chance to take photos of the Icelandic horses. Here is a gallery of XX photos of the Iceland Horses from Tumabrekka.
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Dalvik at sunrise »
Horses at sunset (part two) »
Horses at sunset (part one) »
Driving around on Road 76 »
Icelandic Horses Portraits »
Feeding the horses, Iceland 2013 »
Driving North from the West Fjords »
Hiking the West Fjords: Day 4 »
Hiking the West Fjords: Day 3 »
Hiking the West Fjords: Day 2 »
Hiking the West Fjords: Day 1 »
Driving to the West Fjords »
Hveragerdi, Iceland 2013 »
Hvalfjordur, January 2013 »
Sunset, Kopavogur »
Hallbjarnarvodur »
Nesjavallaleid »
Helgafelli, November 2012 »
Northern Lights, Þingvellir National Park (part 3) »
Northern Lights, Þingvellir National Park (part 2) »
Northern Lights, Þingvellir National Park (part 1) »
Blueberries in Hvalvatn, October 2012 »
Þingvellir to Nyrðra-Hádegisfell »
WE in the North of Iceland, May 2012 »
Hiking up a mountain and riding it down »
Northern Lights in Þingvellir »
Northern Lights in Botnsdalur »
Northern Lights, March 2012 »
Iced Sea, January 2012 »