Iceland pictures

**Gunnar** · 29th November 08, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by McClef

Simply breathtaking Gunnar.

Could you possibly identify for us which areas they were taken in?

Yes of course! I totally forgot that!

Pic.1: I mountain at the roots of the volcano Hekla, witch is on the south side of Iceland, as you can see there's alot of lava on the right side of the photo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla

Pic.2: And another one near Hekla, and alot of lava there.

Pic.3:A small church that was there near by.

We often drive through a fjord close to Reykjavík called Hvalfjörður and here are some pics I took there and in the fjords close by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvalfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur

Pic.4:A ruined house in Hvalfjörður, a fjord in the south-west country just north of the Reykjavik area.

Pic.5:A wiew from a fjord close to Hvalfjörður

Pic.6:A small island in Hvalfjörður

Pic.7:A wiew of a part of Hvalfjörður

Pic.8:A smallar fjord there close by.

Pic.9:Waterfalls in that fjord.

Pic.10:And the wiew looking out-of that fjord.

Pic.11: My grandparents live in Skagafjörður, wich is in the northern part of the country, so I often visit them and take alot of pics there. And this one is of a mountain there called Tindastóll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagafj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur

Pic.12:A late-summertime wiew of the mountain, with the sun sitting behind it.

Pic.13:A valley somewhere near Borgarfjörður witch is quite close to Hvalfjörður.

Pic.14:Looking to the other direction of that valley and through to Borgarfjörður.

Pic.15:And some houses in Borgarnes wich is the town in Borgarfjörður

Pic.16:A mountain near Hvalfjörður.

Pic.18:A small port in Hvalfjörður.

Pic.19:And looking at the isles in Hvalfjörður.

Pic.20:A wiew of Mývatn wich is on the north-eastern part of the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BDvatn

Pic.21:A waterfall in a river in Langanes witch is a small peninsula in the most north-eastern part of the country.

Pic.22:A wiew there as well.

Pic.23:And a wiew of the town Akureyri witch is the most populus town in the northern country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akureyri

Pic.24:Goðafoss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%C3%B0afoss

Pic.25:A wiew across the bay of Skjálfandi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skj%C3%A1lfandi

Pic.26:The cliffs near there.

Pic.26:And the mountains there.

Pic.27:The same mountains again.

Pic.28:A ruined house near Ásbyrgi. The tree is actually growing into the roof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi

Pic.29The enormous walls of the Ásbyrgi canyon.

Pic.30The same. To to get an idea of how big it is you can see some people standing on a wooden platform near the lake and see how small they are compared to the walls.

Pic.31:My father walking the trail there.

Pic.32:The rock ''island'' in the middle of the canyon.

Pic.33:And a sunset with Tindastóll

Pic.34:Mountains near Borgarfjörður.

Pic.35:A mounain in Tröllaskagi wich lies between Skagafjörður and Eyjafjörður. Akureyri is in Eyjafjörður.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%B6llaskagi

Pic.36:More montains in Tröllaskagi.

Pic.37:A wiew of the Reykjavik area.

Pic.38:Some mountains. I'm not sure where. Somewhere in the northern part.

Pic.39:The Same

Pic.40:My grandparents house in Skagafjörður.

Pic.41:Mountains in Skagafjörður.

Pic.42:The same

GG · 30th November 08, 09:24 PM

I really like your pictures, Gunnar. I have been in Iceland twice and the landscapes are simply fantastic. Last time was five years ago where I took part in a marketing seminar in Reykjavik.
One afternoon at the Blue lagoon I had a little talk with an American professor. He asked me if I did understand how a small country like Iceland obviously made it so economically well. I didn’t, he neither.
We talked about aluminum production, tourism, fishing and came to no conclusion. Then it must be the Americans that pay them for something, he concluded. It didn’t make much sense, but nothing that we could imagine did. Now we know.
Hopefully you can now benefit from more tourists. At least your country is very much worth a visit.

Greg

www.dress2kilt.eu

**cessna152towser** · 29th November 08, 10:27 AM

Lovely shots and some great colour in the landscape and the sky.
I have to admit I have only visited Iceland once, and I have no excuse, it is only a one hour and forty minutes flight from Scotland!

**BEEDEE** · 29th November 08, 11:23 AM

Iceland is on my "Bucket List". Your photos just made me more determined to get their one day.

Thanks,

Brian

**Derek Conley** · 29th November 08, 01:14 PM

These pics are absolutely stunning!

**arrg-isle** · 29th November 08, 01:46 PM

Beedee nailed it: for us Highland-hearted folk, these are "gotta-see" places, views that give wings to one's spirit.
Such places take your breath away . . then give it back, only bigger.
Only thing missing from thses shots are men in kilts, and women in nothing . . uh-oh! - did I just write that out loud?!!

I am so bad on Saturday afternoons! I gotta go drink about this!