Iceland
With cheap flights and stopovers easy to arrange between Europe and the US nearly everybody is going to Iceland nowadays. Maybe the following will show you why. It is an extremely photogenic country.
Icelandic Waterfall Panorama
Skogafoss is on the Ring Road in Iceland and so is visited quite a lot.
The church of Vik, on the South Coast of Iceland.
Most of Iceland's electricty production is from Geothermal Power. However it then has to be brought to the population centres by massive power lines.
Ice from glaciers takes on many differnent stresses that give it many different shapes and designs.
Iceland doesn't have much grazing land so the majority of their livestock is sheep.
This interesting bassalt formation is known as the church floor as it is as decorative as one.
Sunset over the "chruch floor" bassalt formation.
The mountains of Eastern Iceland as seen from the ring-road.
Mountains along the Southern part of Iceland's main road.
There isn't a lot of population in Iceland but every once in a while along the main road you come across a farm.
The Lenticular cloud is something seen in extreme latitudes. These were in Iceland.
Waterfall among the volcanic rocks of Iceland
Multiple falls in Eastern Iceland
Husavik is the whale watching capital of Iceland.
The most powerful waterfall in a country full of them.
Rivers and Sunsest are everywhere in Iceland. Sunsets actually take a longer time so far north.
Driving along the roads in Iceland you often come across a scene like this that just begs you to stop and pull over for a photo,
Reyðarfjörður, one of the Eastern Fjords of Iceland.
The Northern lights are difficult to photograh but in Iceland at least there is minimum light pollution.
Driving up a dirt road will often get you out from the city lights in Iceland. However you don't always get a clear sky. That takes luck.
Random Monument in the middle of Iceland.
Iceland has the lowest density of population in Europe. It is relatively empty.