{"id":1529,"date":"2013-04-06T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrate.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2019-12-01T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T17:30:47","slug":"iceland-march-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/iceland-march-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland: March 10, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We traveled quite a bit by car today. Starting out from Geysir we headed south to the ring road (Rte. 1) and then east past Vik <\/a>and on to Skaftafell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vik, Iceland’s southern most village, lies in an area that would be completely flooded from the glacial melt when Katla<\/a> erupts.  The church provides the only possible high ground. Photos of the black sand beach and sea stacks from Vik fill the web, so it can be hard to capture something unique here. The challenge was compounded by the wind blown sand and snow pelting the front element of the lens.<\/p>\n

We spent a great deal time near Skaftafell during the week. The approach photos show Iceland’s highest peak, Hvannadalshn\u00fakur<\/a>. Notice the end of the glacier in middle of those photos; at sunset that is where we were for our first images of the Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull outlet.<\/p>\n

After dinner we headed further east to shoot the Auroa Borealis <\/a>over Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n<\/a>.
\n

\"Icelandic <\/a>
Icelandic Horses love to pose for photographers. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"N\u00fapssta\u00f0ur <\/a>
N\u00fapssta\u00f0ur there are remarkable old buildings that are believed to be typical for farms in Iceland in past centuries. The most noteworthy of these is the chapel, one of few remaining turf churches in the country. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"V\u00edk <\/a>
V\u00edk is Iceland\u2019s most southerly village and one of the most popular tourist sites in Iceland. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Black <\/a>
Black sand beach at Vik <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sea <\/a>
Sea stacks at Vik <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hvannadalshn\u00fakur <\/a>
Hvannadalshn\u00fakur is a peak in the north-western rim of the \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano in Iceland and the highest point of the island. 2,109.6 metres (6,921 ft) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull <\/a>
Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull is blue glacial outlet from \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull\" <\/a>
Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/p>\n

More images from Iceland can be found in my gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We traveled quite a bit by car today. Starting out from Geysir we headed south to the ring road (Rte. 1) and then east past Vik and on to Skaftafell. Vik, Iceland’s southern most village, lies in an area that would be completely flooded from the glacial melt when Katla erupts.  The church provides the only possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[208,211],"tags":[48,598],"class_list":{"0":"post-1529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iceland","8":"category-landscape-photography","9":"tag-glacier","10":"tag-iceland","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Iceland-7169_Edit_2212_Edit_2213.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FUJv-oF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}