MindStorm Photo – Burt Johnson and Evelyn Johnson Travel Photography
We spent two weeks in Iceland in 2014. Here are a few of our favorite ice and aurora images from that time.
A very faint aurora could be seen the second night of our trip. We quickly pulled to the side of the road and captured this image.
Cropping in and shooting across the glacier gives an abstract effect
Panorama shows glacier coming from the mountains until it melts at sea level.
Icelandic glaciers are a favorite photographic subject
Icebergs ranging from a couple feet across to the size of a house float by on their way to the ocean. The deep blue indicates this ice came from the bottom of a glacier, while the dirt is what the glacier dragged with it before breaking off.
As ice breaks off the glacier, it begins to float out to sea. Some pieces are swept to the beach, where they are melted by the ocean waves.
As the glacier melts, it creates an internal river that speeds up melting futher, resulting in ice caves like this one
This bridge, styled after the Golden Gate in San Francisco, spans the Jokulsarlon lagoon
This is the group of photographers and leaders that traveled Iceland together. Evelyn and I are 3rd and 4th from right, with our leaders Iurie and Jonathan to my right.
As the sun sets, the red sky reflects in the water, creating an eerie effect on this house-sized iceberg.
A ground fog is sometimes seen very early in the morning, making for an other-worldly effect as it begins to lift over the lagoon.
Waves and wind sculpt the ice into unusual shapes that only last a few hours before they are completely melted away.
The beach landscape changes hourly as pieces of ice wash up, are melted, and then replaced by other chunks.
We had to stop and have a friend take our picture, sitting on a chunk of orphan ice at Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon.
A stronger (2+ on scale of 1 to 9) aurora was seen just before we left Iceland. The winds died down, and we were treated to an aurora reflected in this lagoon.
The aurora danced for almost 4 hours, as we watched next to Kirkjufellsfossi (a famous Icelandic waterfall)
The calm wind and clear sky combined to give us this view of an aurora over Kirkjufell -- a famous prominatory downstream from Kirkjufellsfossi.
