Skip to content
Trail Option
A personal geography of landscape and place.
  • Signals
  • LightOpt Blog
  • Ranges and Routes
  • Patterned Ground
  • Lost Journals
  • Travel
  • Galleries
    • Twelve for 2020 Gallery
  • Newsletter
  • About Trail Option

Iceland 2018 Gallery

Back in Iceland. A volcanic cold desert plain above the Tungufljót River.
Moss and volcanics. Somewhere on the Golden Circle.
Coming storm. On the bouldery steppe above Gullfoss. Troll fences ready.
Gullfoss gale
The Rock, The Church
First light at Búðakirkja
Abandonment at Dagverðará.
Catching light at Dagverðará.
False land. Sunset at Lóndrangar.
Walking ice after dark, Langaholt Lagoon
Snow dune. Difficult conditions for hand-held photography, but I needed a walk.
Closing the veil. The mountains of Snaefellsness at Langaholt.
The Building at Búðakirkja
Archway at Búðakirkja
Last pillars of Búðakirkja
Islands of Eldfell
A short day's long sunset at Dyrhólaey
Preflight checklist. Learning the possibilities with aurora building; winter milky way and evaporating clouds.
Approaching symphony. A concert never forgotten at Solheimasandur wreckage.
Diamond morning. Cool light of early morning and first shots at Diamond Beach.
Forward ebb. Apparent motion in the waves of sunrise.
Diamond delivered. I am reminded of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, US.
Wave escape. In close with a small berg.
Diamond classic. Watching this unfold in-camera and in processing simply stunned me.
Leaving light. Finding fresh snow at day's end amazed me.
Fire within. Seeing and feeling the difference.
Highlights at Jökulsárlón.
Standing Above. The light continued into the afternoon, rising over Jökulsárlón.
Mist and massif. The power of the glacier-covered mountain drew my attention from even the best-cut diamond.
Vestrahorn Gray. The clouds settle among the crags of Vestrahorn.
Eestern Crag of Vestrahorn. This is one of my favorite photos from the trip, and I remember posting it to Instagram that day. It was difficult not to highlight this peak in every composition, and you'll see it again and again below.
The Monks of Vestrahorn. This small pair of outcrops peeks from behind Vestrahorn. I see a pair of cowled monks, treking one behind the other, into the clouds beyond the crags.
Curving to the crags. The black-and-white contrast works on a dark day. Although I tried to avoid the tracks in foreground dunes, these appealed to me for some reason.
Toward the pass. After fixating on the summits, I sought equal time for the saddles.
Cooling crags. A cool-light, long exposure of the eastern summit crag at Vestrahorn. This is the wide-view of the two images above.
Late gray of Vestrahorn. One more for the motion, letting color play the highlights.
Tidal outcrop. Details in the older rocks in the coastal outcrops at Vestrahorn.
Blue radiance of Fjallsjökul. A blue-hour glacier reconnaissance.
Trolls at dawn
One-of-red
Kvernufoss
Behind-the-falls
Island-pony
Seljalandsfoss
Kirkjufellfoss sunrise
Kirkjufell
Kirkjufell townlight
Parting light at Kirkjufell
  • Contact TrailOption
  • Optional Frontiers — Travel globally, write locally.
  • Signals Bibliography
Copyright © 2021 Trail Option