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Smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano on Saturday, May 21. Grimsvotn volcano lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.
Photographer Jon Gustafsson captured this powerful image of the Grimsvotn volcano erupting on Saturday.
Gustafsson writes: " It took us 90 minutes to fly to Grimsvotn with a strong wind against us. The eruption looked magnificent in the sunset. We got there ...
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AP photographer Jon Gustafsson captured this powerful image of the Grimsvotn volcano erupting on Saturday. Gustafsson talks with TODAY.com's Dara Brown about the stunning images he took within two hours and two miles of the eruption, in the video below.
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Smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano on Saturday, May 21. Grimsvotn volcano lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.
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Iceland - A land of Ice and Fire by Iurie Belegurschij p caponigro

These images came together quickly – after a lot of gestation. I sketched the idea several years ago during a workshop with Focus On Nature. I made the shots last summer, scouting for another workshop with Ragnar th Sigurdsson and Arthur Meyerson. The first time I visited this location, (Skogafoss, Iceland) I took a few shots in less than half an hour, looking for major compositional variations. After looked at those shots and identified this idea, I shot very differently the next time, standing ...
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Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Iceland by Gunnar Gestur Geirmundssonfocus on singhray
New Yorker Matthew Eisman's photographic career is currently thriving on live music concerts and portrait work, which has appeared in publications such as The New York Times and SPIN. "Last summer, I decided to volunteer with the conservation trail teams in Iceland’s national parks through the Environment Agency of Iceland (Umhverfisstofnun). One of my photographic goals was to try capturing the grandeur of the Iceland landscape with the help of my Singh-Ray filters.CINEMA5D
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Along the Ring Road in Iceland.
Carolyn Cioffari took this photo during a 10-day tour of Iceland in September. Cioffari, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., told TODAY.com in an email that the first half of the trip was overcast or rainy, "so it wasn't the best for photography, even though the landscape was incredible."
She had been traveling on Iceland's 830-mile Ring Road, the main route that circles the country, when she saw this abandoned farmhouse on her way to the fishing town ...
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Iceland summer colors
Finding a location for summer photography presents challenges, often the light is too harsh, sunsets and rises too close together to enable decent sleep and the air lacks the clarity that cold days bring. Plus all that green! In other words while it is great to ditch the thermals it is hard to find inspiration.
A solution is to escape to cooler latitudes. This summer Mel and I, with new friend Canadian Connie, headed north to Iceland and chose to spend a week in the Westfjords. ...
Iceland. Westfjords in AugustDPREVIEW SONY DSLR FORUM
