Bragi Halldorsson
My day 3 entry in the 365 Photos Challenge. My entry today is a photo of a sunset at Hólmavík, Iceland.
Hólmavík is a very small town in Westfjord, Iceland. One of my favorite place in Iceland and I try to travel there at least ones every summer. The Westfjords are a peninsula of many narrow fjords, high mountains, and barren landscape. But this landscape makes things like sunrise and sunsets often spectacular. Because in the morning and evening there comes a fog from the sea that often totally encapsulate everything, but when it lifts up and the sun breaks thru the rest of the fog and clouds, it’s special.
To sit outside my caravan in the evening and watch the sun going down in the Westfjords, it’s like heaven.
Here are the rules on the 365 Photos Challenge.
1am, oh wow, Bragi! This is quite stunning in its beauty.
Thank you very much, Norman!
Very dramatic sky!!! Beautiful.
Thank you so much, Ileana!
Wow this is so surreal. I would love to visit Iceland one day. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
Thank you, Carol! You just have to come over one day and see it for your self. Just remember to bring your camera : )
I would love to if it wasn’t so far from southern US! 🙂
Thank you very much!
Beautiful! I knew this had to be from you when I read the title. Lovely color there, wow, what a view.
Thank you, Kim! Yes, the sun was already behind the high mountains when the fog lifted, but often that is the best moments there because then the rays of the sun shine on the clouds from beneath and in that condition, so many colors show up. I often just sit and take a photo maybe every 5 minutes because one never knows what will happen next and sometimes I get many good photos that are all different because of the effect of the vanishing fog and movements of the clouds plus the sun shining on them from different angles.
See, I knew you took more of just dead leaves on the ground! Although I love macros and different points of views.
Yes, when traveling in Iceland things like sunsets are often so photogenic, especially in the summer when the sun almost never sets. I think, if I remember correctly, this photo was takin about one a clock in the night.
I have been to Alaska and know what you mean, talk about a long golden hour! Can’t wait to see more.