Wet lagoon.
The series continues and the introduction in the first post is reprised below.
If there is one word that comes to mind repeatedly during excursions into the Highlands of Iceland, it is Strangeness. Here, among the last great wilderness areas outside of the polar extremes, you are often met by sights that connoisseurs of the cliché are wont to describe as “surreal.”
Hálendið (“The Highlands”) offers a buffet of dreamlike mountains, lava fields, volcanic craters, sand deserts, waterfalls, lakes, and glacial rivers. Away from the motorable tracks lie sublime visuals accessible only to the determined hiker or through aerial forays. This series brings under one umbrella lesser known abstracts of the Highlandscape, which, in many instances, remain unmarked on maps.
The Gems collection.
Blautulón – Highlands of Iceland
5DS, 24-70L f/2.8 II
What magnificient landscape my amigo! So very unique with the stark b/w against the green landscape! So well seen and so well photographed! You live in a remarkable Country!
Thank you, amigo.
aah! our enchanting earth! thank you…
Good to hear from you, Sarmila.
Extraordinary. The emerald waters of the river reminded me of lake Louise, at Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Thank you, Antonio-bab.
The sense of scale in these photos is suspended; one doesn’t fully know how big the area is, and that’s awesome. All four are visually interesting and captivating, and you’ve done a great job in conveying the highlands majesty. Well done.
Thanks, Bob. It is hard to convey scale as the Highlands are uninhabited and except for a few emergency or ranger huts, there are no manmade structures to measure against. The otherworldliness & uniqueness of the Icelandic Highlands derives not from “bigness” but from the sheer poetry of the landscape and the varied forms it assumes thanks to the bubbling volcanism underneath. Grandeur of size such as one may encounter in the Himalayas, Greenland, or the Andes is not the characteristic here in Iceland which is a relatively small rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.
Simple stupendous and magnificent
Indeed, Sanjeev-bab.