{"id":10134,"date":"2024-12-20T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2024-12-19T20:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:41:50","slug":"iceland-2024-contd-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/20\/iceland-2024-contd-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland, 2024 — contd — 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After checking into to hostel, I headed out to capture the sunset. At a roadside parking lot, overlooking the sea, I made a silhouette of these two photographers (who were making some images).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photogs At Sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Looking towards Olafsvik, the sun was just setting over the horizon, so I made this final image in daylight, with the sky and clouds lighting up the long beach.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sunset Near Olafsvik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Often, I am asked if I saw the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). I did see them, over Canada, on the flight to Reykjavik. However, later after dinner, I looked out from the hostel and noticed some faint lights against clear skies. Heading out from Grundarfjordur, I stopped at one location that I had researched earlier, to make this image. This was the first time that I had seen lights that formed a loop!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aurora Borealis, Grundarfjordur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After making several images, I headed to the parking lot where I made the earlier silhouette. This location allowed me to include the sea. In this image, light from the aurora was reflected in the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aurora Borealis, Snaefellsnes, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In the distance, one can see the lights of the town of Olafsvik, on the left, some 15 kms away. Also, towards the center is the town of Rif, some 7 kms farther away. Some of the lights streamed out the right side. So I chose a horizontal orientation to capture this stream.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aurora Borealis, Snaefellsnes, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I noticed that there is some blue light reflecting from the sea. Maybe this is from low cloud that started to form? Anyway, the lights lasted for another 15 minutes before fading away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After checking into to hostel, I headed out to capture the sunset. At a roadside parking lot, overlooking the sea, I made a silhouette of these two photographers (who were making some images). Looking towards Olafsvik, the sun was just setting over the horizon, so I made this final image in daylight, with the sky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1971,1063,609,1064,269,27],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-aurora","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-beach","tag-northern-lights","tag-silhouette","tag-sunset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t