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A v-shaped cleft in the rocks of the foreground water margin repeats as an upward pointing mountain shadow further along the fjord.

Mid-November, Fáskrúðsfjörður in eastern #Iceland.

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A colour photo of a body of water with sunlit snow-covered mountains on the horizon. The foreground is icy black rocks and, in the centre of the shot, a V-shaped cleft. The sky is fairly clear and the water of the fjord is ruffled.

Another colour shot of the same fjord further along the road. The foreground is a dark sandy bank with a sprinkling of snow. On the opposite shore is a snowy mountainside, the sky above it is more cloudy. The peaks of the mountains and the water below are in shadow but the flanks are sunlit. In the centre is the pointed shadow of the mountain behind us, cast across the snowfield.

Swamp Valley

A rainbow drops over the smallholdings scattered across the flood plain.

October, the view from Dyrhólæy¹ promontory looking inland towards Mýrdalsjökull² in southern #Iceland.

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A colour photo of a landscape under a cloudy sky taken from high ground. A black tarmac road, patches of ice, and vehicle tracks can be seen across a foreground of brown grassland. Cloud shadows are dappling the surface. Several small buildings are dotted about, and in the distance is a snow-capped mountain range. In the centre is a small arc of rainbow.

Look Both Ways Before Crossing

Drone shots looking south-west and then north-east along a volcanic rift caused by the ground surface being pulled apart at a divergent boundary.

Roughly a third of all lava that has covered the earth’s surface since the Middle Ages has erupted in #Iceland. Movement is constant.

Hrafnagjá¹ (Raven Gap) and Þingvallavatn² (Parliament Lake)

¹ 𝙃𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛-𝘯𝘢-𝘨𝘺𝘰𝘸
² 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝘧𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢-𝘧𝘷𝘢𝘵-𝘯 ("Th" as in "father")

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A colour photo taken by a drone above a rugged landscape covered in snow with a lake in the distance. Dark rock is showing through the ice, and a deep cleft is running from bottom left to centre left, accentuated by shadows. The sky is cloudy but blue.

Another colour photo from a drone, showing the same snowy rift running from bottom centre and almost to the horizon. A road is running across from bottom right to centre left, dipping slightly as it crosses the chasm. There are snow-capped mountains on the horizon.

Black Road

February, and we're driving across Grafarflói on our way to Blönduós.

About to cross the bridge over Gljúfurá¹ in Húnaþing Vestra, north-western #Iceland, ahead of us is the foot of Jörundarfell (1038m/3405ft).

¹ 𝙂𝙡𝙮𝙤𝙤-𝘧𝘰𝘰-𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘸

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A colour photo of a landscape. The viewpoint is from the front seat of a car travelling along a black tarmac road. Just ahead is a bridge with traffic barriers on either side and a signpost saying "Gljúfurá". The road is curving towards the foot of a mountain covered in snow and ice. The land on either side of the road is also covered.

Quiet Dawn

Early November at 10am and the sun is rising over Pollurinn, just outside Akureyri.
A storm is brewing, but there was no sign of it yet. We were supposed to take a flight back to Reykjavik but all were cancelled, and we had to drive through it for 6 hours.

Eyjafjörður in north-eastern #Iceland.

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A colour photo of a sunrise. The foreground is a frozen expanse of water and on the horizon is a line of snow-covered mountains. The sky is clear apart from streaks of cloud above the mountains and a block of low cloud in ter right. All of the clouds are tinted orange by the rising sun, and this is reflected in the surface of the ice.

Cochetopa Canyon
SE of Gunnison, CO

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Aerial photo looking up a narrow, shallow canyon. A large stream winds down the bottom with lush green shrubs and tall conifer trees on either bank. A two lane highway follows the left side of the canyon. The canyon is formed by hills of rock and soils, dry and mostly vegetation free. Blue sky with some clouds.
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Cold Dawn

The sunrise paints the cloud with peach but the ice still waits for first warmth.

Búlandstindur¹ (1069m/3507ft) in Berufjörður², eastern #Iceland.

¹ 𝘽𝙤𝙤-𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴-𝘵𝘪𝘯-𝘥𝘳𝘳
² 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙧-𝘰𝘰-𝘧𝘺𝘳𝘳-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳

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A colour photo of a coastline covered in ice and snow. The waterside is craggy and spikes of dark rock show through. On the right is a tall pyramidal mountain, silhouetted and draped in scarves of cloud. The sky is heavily overcast and grey, but a window is opened in it through which the orange of dawn is visible.

Painted Desert - Kachina Point
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

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Looking down into a wide basin with eroded hills of colorful soils: reds, whites, orange, and brown; little vegetation; blue sky with a few small clouds along the horizon.
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Bass

The Bass Rock is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of #Scotland. Approximately 2 km (1 mi) offshore, and 5 km (3 mi) north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volcanic plug, 107 m (351 ft) at its highest point, and is home to a huge colony of gannets.

At high zoom, the true density of the bird colony is obvious.

Text derived from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Rock

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A colour photo of one side of a steep-sided island, with a clear cyan sky overhead and a calm blue sea. The more horizontal ledges of the island are painted white by guano and the overflow has almost completely covered the vertical faces. At 100% magnification, individual birds can be seen, covering every available nesting ledge of which there are many. Beyond the island, on the left, the air is full of birds arriving and departing.

Snow Eggs

A beautiful day in Höfn, and the sunlight casts shadows across the mountain faces.

And the title? Our little joke. The first time we saw the white plastic-wrapped bales of winter fodder, we decided that they must be snow waiting to hatch!

Háitindur¹ (892 m/2926 ft) and Skálatindur (532 m/1745 ft) in Hornafjörður, south-eastern #Iceland. The little waterfall is Bergárfoss, also known as Mígandisfoss.

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A colour photo of two in a range of mountains, beneath a clear cyan sky. The foreground is yellow vegetation, some fields are still green. The mountain flanks on the right are steep scree slopes, and a shadow is cast between the two peaks, highlighting a deep valley. The pinnacle on the left looks like harder rock, and the peaks here are ice- and snow-capped.

Muddy Creek at Hidden Splendor
San Rafael Swell Recreation Area, UT

The view downstream from a geological bench about a hundred feet above the bottom.

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View down a deep sandstone canyon with red, orange and white layers and cliffs. A small, shallow river meanders along the bottom with a few cottonwoods and smaller trees sprinkled along its side. Mostly cloudy sky.
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Riding The Ice Boat

Crossing the Fjallsárlón¹ glacial lagoon towards the calving snout of Fjallsjökull glacier, the rippling ice dropping slowly to meet the water. We didn't approach much closer than this to the undulating 5 to 15 metre (15-50ft) vertical face due to the risk of collapse.

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A colour photo taken from the surface of a body of turquoise-grey water. In the near distance is a rippled ice surface, cracked and crevassed. The ice is faintly turquoise, particularly in the depths. On the left is a mountain flank supporting one side of the ice. At the water's edge, the ice has an upright slab face where cracks have separated the glacier into chunks which have then fallen into the lagoon as icebergs. Several of them are floating between the viewpoint and the ice-front.

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Welcoming Scene
Valley of the Gods, UT

Driving in from the east entrance you come around a corner and are presented with this glorious vista.

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Wide angle photo of sandstone cliffs and pinnacles beyond a wash through a red desert scene; scrub trees along the wash; sky with light and dark clouds.
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You May

Taking the ferry back to Anstruther on a gorgeous July day, after a short visit to see puffins, guillemots, razorbills, shags, cormorants and terns.

The Isle of May, around 1.5 km long and 0.5 km wide. In the north of the outer Firth of Forth and approximately 8 km off the coast of mainland #Scotland.

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A colour photo of a seascape with an island on the horizon. The sky is clear azure blue apart from a few thin white clouds, and the surface of the sea is reflecting the blue of the sky in a deeper shade. A boat wake is being left behind from the island to the lower left of the shot. There are several buildings on the island, including a large lighthouse and a white foghorn.

Balmerino Abbey

Last Thursday, we drove up to and along the shores of the River Tay. Our main goal was a ruined abbey in the lovely village of Balmerino.

It was a gorgeous February day, cold but with bright sunshine and blue skies. The snowdrops were brightening the grass beneath the trees, the moon was rising, and the honey coloured stones of the old abbey spoke of history.
Magical.

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A colour photo of the gates at the entrance to the abbey. The black metalwork is aged but still strong, and the gate is missing. Beyond it is a stretch of dappled green grass with a set of steps leading to the start of the ruins. There are trees all around, and the sky is almost clear cyan with a half moon rising above the gateposts.

A colour photo of a wooded area, ivy-covered trees and low brush is all around. Across the leaf littered grass banks, thousands of the delicate white bells of snowdrops are scattered everywhere in lovely living carpet.

A colour photo of a gnarled tree, bare of leaves. Other trees are beyond and beside it, but the twisted branches of this ancient wood are more angular and stark than any of its surroundings. In the centre of the shot, in the middle of a cloudless blue sky, the gibbous moon is hanging as if magically supported by the old tree.

A colour photo of part of the abbey ruins. Broken grey stone forms a window arch and, beyond it, more arched windows and a buttress form another wall of the open room. Inside are large wildflowers, brown and lifeless. On the outer wall of the abbey, ivy has grown and thickened on either side of the window as a living frame.

Falls of Dochart

Mid-June, and the river banks are lush and green. This old tree, still alive and thriving, made a perfect frame for my shot of the top rapids.

The river’s source is the 1130 metres of the Munroe Ben Lui, the water flows 21 km east from Loch Dochart and into Loch Tay.

Killin in Perthshire, #Scotland.

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A colour photo of a river, running into the scene at the bottom left and disappearing around a rocky corner near the centre of the shot. At lower left, the river is turbulent, showing the colour of peat in its whitened water. The rocky riverbanks are green with trees, shrubs and low-growing plants and one large tree with its roots at the bottom right is bent across the top of the picture, forming a natural arch with it's rough-barked trunk. On the right are a few pretty cottages with a cloudy blue sky above.

Happy Accident

8am in mid-November, still quite dark and we were just leaving the hotel. The moon was rising above the glaciers so I stopped to take a shot of it.
What I hadn't realised was that I'd left the camera settings I'd used for aurora the night before. As a result this is a long exposure and, I think, it works rather well.

ISO 400, f/2.8, 5 second exposure

Höfn¹ in Hornafjörður², south-eastern #Iceland.

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²𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙣-𝘢-𝘧𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘳-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳

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A colour photo of a landscape with a foreground of browned vegetation and fences. On the horizon is a line of snow-capped mountain peaks with glaciers dropping to ground level at three places. Just above the mountains is the rising moon, over-exposed to become a bright ball of shining light. There's a cloud bank below it, just above the ice sheet. The sky above the moon is clear and dotted with stars.

Summer Greens

A gorgeous day by Loch Earn, perfect for a stroll along the waterside to a viewpoint above the roads. Magical!

Looking back to June, and a trip we took to Loch Earn in the southern highlands of #Scotland, in the districts of Perth and Kinross, and Stirling.

Am Bioran (608 m/1995 ft) and Beinn Fuath (649 m/2129 ft)

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A colour photo of a body of water with mountains on the opposite side. The sky is blue with fluffy scattered clouds and the waters of the loch are reflecting this. The flanks of the mountains (known as "Grahams") are clothed in green vegetation, the lower parts covered in woodland and the upper flanks showing patches of brownish scrub. In the centre of the shot and down the side of the mountain is a cleft filled with trees, this is a waterfall cascading down, encouraging strong growth. The foreground in front of the loch waters is a row of green trees. Dotted across the water are small boats, and more of them are moored on the opposite shore. It's beautiful.

Horsetail

One of the beauties of #Iceland is that stunning scenery like this is so easily accessible.

This is Seljalandsfoss in southern Iceland, 60 m/197 ft of pure gorgeousness, situated a short walk from the main ring-road Route 1. There a cave behind it which visitors can enter in summer, but this was taken in March when it was closed.

Part of the Seljalands River that drops from the volcano Eyjafjallajökull.

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