5 January 2015 / Iceland Dashing Through the Snow Admit it, when you read the title of this post, you sang it in your head a little bit, didn't you? On our way back to Reykjavik, we decided to try to stop
5 January 2015 / Iceland Pièce de Résistance I'm not going to talk much here, but instead just say this: The auroras the night of January 2nd and morning of January 3rd were incredible. Clear and strong enough to be photographed
4 January 2015 / Iceland Fred. Before I post more about the wonderous and mystical auroras and landscapes that can be found in Icelend, I wanted to introduce you to Fred. Fred likes to make faces at people.
3 January 2015 / Iceland Activity Level 4 On my phone, I have an Aurora Forecast app. It labeled the 2nd and 3rd as activity levels 4 and 5 (5 is the highest). Actually, let me first preface this with a
3 January 2015 / Iceland A Beach Covered in Diamonds When we got to the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, we first went to the glacier side (the road is smack in the middle of the glacier and beach where it flows to it's inevitable
3 January 2015 / Iceland A Study in Photogenics After Dyrhólaey, we treked farther east and hooked north, around the other side of the volcano and glacier national park (photos coming soon). We stayed at quite the photogenic farm. This ended up
3 January 2015 / Iceland Hobbiton Abbey I was unable to post some photos from 12/30 and 12/31 mostly due to exhaustion. We've been hiking and driving in a combination of bad weather and just amazing snow vistas,
31 December 2014 / Iceland One in a million Not much to be said here... ...except that I just had the most random luck shooting a set of photographs with the intervalometer. I had my camera pointing towards one of the mountains
31 December 2014 / Iceland Ambien Daze Well, as far as poor decisions go, I made a pretty collosal one a couple of nights ago (the 29th - 30th). You see, it was raining quite hard and I thought we
29 December 2014 / Iceland Accidental Babies So, I got my first glimpse of an aurora, but unfortunately, it wasn't visible from the naked eye. This photograph was a total accident. I was actually shooting the base of Kerlingarfjöll at
28 December 2014 / Iceland The Road to Grundarfjordur We decided to trek north, towards Grundarfjordur (pronounced: grundansdjnflskncjwenfj) - I have no idea how to pronounce most of the Icelandic names words. Unfortunately, the weather turned pretty rough, with roads completely covered
27 December 2014 / Iceland Blue Lagoon Our first stop after picking up our rental car was the Blue Lagoon. Here's the first group of photos from that area: More posts coming soon! Today we plan to trek farther north,
27 December 2014 / Iceland Goose Bay Today we flew on a plane named after a shield volcano, or something like that. Iceland air names their planes, an idea I actually really enjoyed. It's a really quick way to transport
26 December 2014 / Iceland Flight plan My flight to Reykjavik takes me through Boston. Then the return flight is direct back to Dulles. Apparently, there was no line at TSA Pre Check, so I'm just hanging at the gate,
17 December 2014 / Iceland Equipment List I'm starting to get everything together for the upcoming trip and, in doing so, have decided to catalog the equipment I'm going to be hauling around with me. Most of my photography will