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ICELAND: Geothermal Wonderlands August 27-September 6, 2010 |
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Inspiration for this tour came from seeing photographs on the Luminous Landscape website. To see images of places we plan to visit on this tour please view this link: www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/iceland-locations.shtml HIGHLIGHTS 11 days 8 participants max * Reach inaccessible areas throughout the country by traveling in a 4x4 vehicle designed to ford rivers and cross volcanic terrain.
* Photograph blue-tinted icebergs floating in Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon & icebergs stranded on a remote black sand beach. Overnighting at a nearby farmhouse allows for evening and early morning photography. * Spend 3 nights in Myvatn to explore an eerie lava field of contorted crags, bubbling cauldrons, pseudocraters and 60-foot lava pillars. * Photograph majestic fjords, sleepy fishing villages, idyllic farms and forests along the eastern coast. * Hike around Fjallabak Nature Reserve & Landmannalaugar where geothermal activity colors rhyolite mountains intense neon green. * Visit 2 preserved 19th century turf-roofed farmsteads. * Photograph a woman wearing traditional woolens on an Icelandic horse farm, and a man in a geothermal environment on 2 model shoots. * Walk along coastal cliffs. See basalt sea stacks & numerous waterfalls. * Soak in warm mineral waters at the Blue Lagoon. * Hike along the Valley of Smoke in a volcanic, geothermal hotspot. * Explore remote glaciers, geysirs, steaming fumaroles and mineral colored lakes in the interior highlands. Access to photograph sights early morning and night made possible by staying overnight in a mountain hut and our hired 4WD. * Be accompanied by 3 published photographers; us and Haukur Snorrason, one of Iceland's most prolific nature photographers who will act as our tour driver/guide, leading us around the best places in his country. * Learn how to create dramatic landscape images with off camera flash, gels, filters and reflectors through informal presentations in the field. * Visit the latest eruption site and photograph the after effects on the surrounding lands.
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