{"id":10149,"date":"2024-12-24T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T19:24:38","slug":"iceland-2024-contd-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/iceland-2024-contd-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland, 2024 — contd — 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While staying at Grundarfjordur, I stopped by Kirkjufell to make some images. This is a well photographed location, but I prefer a different view of the mountain, captured shortly after sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kirkjufell, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At low tide, a large area of flat muddy beach is exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kirkjufell, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Grundarfjordur is located on the Snaefellsness peninsula. This offers some really spectacular snow-covered mountains along the length of the peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

Later that same day, I found a pasture where a herd of Icelandic horses were grazing. Stopping by the fence, these horses appreciate a meeting with touring visitors!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Iceland Horse Portrait, Alftafjordur No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Among the herd, was one foal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Iceland Horse Foal, Alftafjordur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Soon the mother approached and moved away with the foal. This was one image that I made with the foal hiding behind the mother.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Iceland Horse, Mother And Foal, Alftafjordur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Towards the end of the day, I stopped by one location, close to Grundarfjordur, where the road passes through a lava field. These lava fields are typically covered with bright yellow-green moss.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Moss Covered Lava Flow Near Grundarfjordur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Moss-covered lava fields may be found in many parts of Iceland. However, the moss is very sensitive. Walking on the moss is not very forgiving and is not encouraged. It is easy to slip and get injured on the underlying lava!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While staying at Grundarfjordur, I stopped by Kirkjufell to make some images. This is a well photographed location, but I prefer a different view of the mountain, captured shortly after sunrise. At low tide, a large area of flat muddy beach is exposed. Grundarfjordur is located on the Snaefellsness peninsula. This offers some really spectacular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1972,1885,1973,61,1884,1951,595,1974,623,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-10149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-foal","8":"tag-grundarfjordur","9":"tag-herd","10":"tag-horses","11":"tag-kirkjufell","12":"tag-lava-fields","13":"tag-moss","14":"tag-moutains","15":"tag-snaefellsnes","16":"tag-sunrise"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}