Experience Iceland, Winter Photo & Land

We head further north, across valleys and farmlands. We visit Kolugljúfur Canyon on the route. We will stop at an old turf house farm called Glaumbaer which looks great all covered in snow. Afterwards, take the ocean-side road into a small and very beautiful fishing village Siglufjordur for the night. Siglufjördur is now a popular ski resort.

We will use this morning for taking photographs by the harbor with the first morning lights and then head out into Eyjafjördur and photograph along this handsome bay. Afterward, we will visit the Town of Akureyri for lunch. Godafoss or the waterfall of the Gods, one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Iceland is our main theme for the rest of the day. We will photograph the falls until the last rays of daylight.

We take off in time to be at sunrise/first light at the bubbling hot springs 20 min drive from the hotel. Hopefully, we get good light to color the steam from powerful vents. The blue lake is on our way getting back. We take a little walk by the lake since it does not completely freeze due to freshwater springs and you can photograph reflections and ducks there, like Barrow's Golden Eye and a few other species. We look for horses to photograph and towards the end of the day, we drive back 30 min. to Godafoss waterfall for a reshoot from opposite side for sunset/twilight.

We start by photographing the hot springs in the sunrise if we did not get sunrise there yesterday. We look for horses before we head into the highlands that connect northeast to east Iceland. On this route, we look for blowing snow and ice reflections in the hills and mountains that often can be abstract looking and different from everything else. Hopefully, we get to see the queen of Icelandic mountains Mt. Herdubreid when we get to Mödrudalur Country Hotel where we stay overnight. Here we can get the best Arctic char in Iceland for dinner.

We photograph first light over the area of Möðrudalur and Mt. Herðubreið before we take off and head to the east fjords of Iceland where we go back to sea level and experience different landscapes than past days, like the sea stack of Krossnes. Various stops by the handsome coastal line. Overnight in the fishing town of Hornafjörður. This night we hope for Northern lights over the magnificent mountain Vestrahorn.

Today we have devoted the day to the Vatnajökull Glacier National Park. We head to the Glacier Lagoon and photograph icebergs until sunset. Accommodation in a hotel near the Glacier Lagoon. Northern lights hunt at the Ice Lagoon in the evening.

Now is the best time of year to catch the sunrise or first light behind the icebergs that are scattered along the black sand beach. We will photograph Fjallsárlón Lagoon and its outlet. Here is also a good chance to photograph reindeer.

We will meet our local glacier guide who comes from an experienced company in the area of Vatnajökull. He will be our guide in the Ice caves. Ice caves have been flooded with tourists in past years making it hard for us tripod people to get our photographs. So we no longer go by 4x4 to the Ice caves anymore like most other tourists do. Therefore we use a helicopter to fly up to more remote places on the glacier and by that way, we get away from the crowds and can now photograph great ice caves more exclusively. This Ice cave tour takes about half the day.

Behind our hotel is the handsome Svinafellsjökull glacier. Famous for hosting many movie scenes such as Batman, Interstellar, and Game of Thrones because of the easy access to it and we take full advantage of that. Rest of the day we photograph our way westwards closer to the black sand beach where we shoot our last morning shoot.

We take an early breakfast to be at the black sand beach in time to photograph the sea stacks at Reynisfjara at sunrise. This time of year the sun rises right behind the sea stacks! We will photograph the coastal line at Dyrhólaey headlands. The majestic and famous Skógafoss awaits us. And the less-known but photogenic Gluggafoss waterfall is last on this tour´s menu. ETA in Reykjavik around 5 - 6 pm.