All right, day two and another bucket
list spot checked off the list. I come
from the Pacific Northwest where we have
loads of waterfalls, but it's always
great to see an icon. This place is shot
from a couple typical stand points, but
luckily for Alex he was here two years
ago before drone photography was banned.
We're gonna put in some incredible
footage that he shot on this previous
trip, but just to be here and experience
this place was enough for me today.
So just a short walk, when the really
iconic Skógafoss down there, is this
beautiful waterfall. This area is just
one of the most amazing waterfalls,
there all over Iceland.
So it's such an experience to get behind
one of them. So after this morning we had
so much fun playing around with the
waterfalls. The mood was really, really
good. It was overcast, so there was no
harsh light, but all today has just been
solid Sun, which is a perfect day, but not
for shooting. So just being kind of
cruising around. Now it's like six or
seven o'clock, the lights get a lot
softer and we're back out exploring. what
is this place called? Dyrhólaey, so we're
currently at Dyrhólaey, I'll link it
somewhere. So apparently there are
puffins up by the lighthouse. First of all
we're checking out a
really cool little cave.
I've been lucky enough to head up to
this spot several times for sunset. It's
one of the most magical beaches, but I've
always been there too early in the
season to enjoy the puffins, and finally
I got the moment I was looking for. I've
always wanted to be able to shoot
puffins, and we just kind of went crazy,
because we were all over the place with
this amazing sunset, which was happening.
There was one moment I kept on noticing
two puffins kept coming together,
right on the edge of the cliff. I really
wanted to get not a compressed shot, but
a really nice wide angle, so I put on my
14 -24mm and got really as tight to them
as possible, without disturbing them, and
this is the moment that will really, really
stay with me.
So it is day 4 on the road in Iceland and
this place is seriously mind-blowing,
it's as pretty as you think it would be
after having seen photos of it for so
many years. We left Vic this morning and
we're headed down to the Glacier Lagoon,
which is down in Höfn. On the way we swung
by an incredible canyon that
unfortunately has been closed to hiking,
due to the super popular nature of it.
There's been many footpaths beaten into
the landscape, and unfortunately the hike
itself is closed, but we were able to
snag some amazing aerial photography of
it. We're just trying to make the most of
our time on the road, so in addition to
the canyon that we flew over earlier,
we've now pulled over on a side road, and
we're gonna try to get some car shots.
So Iceland has to offer so many amazing
different opportunities to shoot. I
love these massive, massive glaciers, they
have, and it's just incredible for the
details and textures to pick up on a
70 - 200. The light is perfect, it is quite
flat, but at the same time it kind of
diffuses the harsh light. So it's really
great opportunity to be out and about shooting.
Alex and I have spent the evening
shooting at the Glacial Lagoon and
Diamond Beach you can see behind me
there's all these chips of the huge
glacier, that the sea just kind of rages
and pushes them back on to shore. Some of
them are crystal clear, and I've never
seen ice like this before. It's an
amazing scene, and if the nature here is
just absolutely ridiculous, not quite
sure what we're gonna get up to for
sunrise tomorrow. We'd come out to try to
scout this location, but we may end up
shooting somewhere else. Just kind of a
play it by ear situation, when you're on
the road definitely have to be flexible,
and these places are just absolutely
incredible to experience.