I'm a photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. I have shot a variety of projects, including portraits, fine art landscapes and product photography for businesses. I have also shot motorsports for something a little more challenging.
In my spare time, I'm currently working on a timelapse series of New Zealand having recently included Lake Tekapo and Aoraki (Mount Cook) to the list.
After departing the national park, soaking wet and hallucinating moving mountains, we set off to the next accomodation.
The one downside to travelling Iceland in the winter is how dark it gets so quickly. We chose winter for a chance of seeing the Northern Lights but this did mean that the days were short. Because of this we had planned to view the Glacier Lagoon the next morning but as we passed by it to get to the Guesthouse the sight of colossal chunks of glacial ice floating in a lagoon as the sun was starting to set was too much to pass up.
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon and the adjacent Jökulsárlón Diamond Beach absolutely need to be on your itinerary if you're heading to Iceland. It was most definitely the best part of the trip.
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Described by Andrew Stone as "a ghostly procession of luminous blue icebergs", the lagoon is spectactular. The water icy cold as it descends from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier and into the lagoon. The icebergs can then take up to 5 years to float across the lagoon, eerily making their way towards the bridge that allows the ring road to continue on to Höfn.
The receding nature of the area will eventually impact the ring road but for now, watching the volumous icebergs make their way under the bridge and out to the vast Atlantic Ocean is quite awe-inspiring.
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Where Black Sand & Icebergs Collide
The lagoon runs down under the bridge and out to the beach, appropriately named Diamond Beach due to the large icebergs littering the beach as casually as seashells or jellyfish back home in New Zealand.
Iceland has a rather odd, almost otherworldy feel to it.
