The Reynisdrangur sea stacks at the point of the Reynisfjall ridge in Iceland are said by locals to be the remains of trolls who, while trying to wreck a ship, were turned to stone by the rising sun.
The beach here is black sand which provides great contrasts with the water.
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A view of Hvalfjörður, the Whale Fjord in western Iceland. The main road around Iceland, the ring road, used to run around this fjord but in the 90s a 6km long tunnel was built across the entrance, cutting an hour off the travel time north or south, and making this beautiful area a quiet and peaceful place to meander around.
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This is the front of the glacier tongue Sólheimajökull, part of the massive Mýrdalsjökull glacier that sits on top of the volcano Katla in southern Iceland. Various volcanic eruptions in the area have stained the ice with ash, most recently in 2010 with the eruption of nearby Eyjafjallajökull.
For a sense of scale check out the people in orange walking on top of the ice near the centre. Most of them are lying down, waiting for the high winds to die down. It was hard to stand sometimes, strong gusts almost lifted me off my feet.
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A washing line in southern Iceland.
Taken with the Sigma 35mm prime, the first of Sigma's new 'Art' line of lenses that aim to compete with the best from Canon and Nikon. The lens has been getting almost unreserved praise in reviews, with DxO Mark suggesting the lens sets a new benchmark for this focal length.
I used it a lot in Iceland, and whether it's wide open or stopped down it always performed beautifully, lots of contrast and detail, almost three dimensional results. This image (a vertorama made up of two horizontal images) was shot at f/1.4. I've never had a lens so usable wide open.
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A tractor sits in a field near the fishing village of Grundarfjörður on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland, the mountain Kirkjufell in the background.
This shot was taken with the Sigma 35mm at f/1.4 and is straight out of the camera except for the removal of vignetting in Adobe's RAW converter.
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