Jökulsárlón Lagoon

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 18, 2018307 views8 comments

One from last year; I spent a few hours watching the tide going out of the lagoon at around 2am in June, until it washed the small chunks of iceberg out of the lagoon into the sea, where they promptly wash up on the black beach - some of them are the size of a school bus - others are football sized, some look like giant crystals - it really is a mind blowing place. I had it to myself for about 45 minutes before scores of people with Tripods had realized what I was doing and made a stampede in my direction, it was great until that point.

Phase one IQ260, Cambo WRS, Rodenstock 32mm HR,

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8 comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on May 18, 2018 at 10:17 AM

I like the soft light, pastel colors, arraingement of the ice and the movement of the water. Fine image.

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on May 18, 2018 at 2:19 PM

Love the translucency of the ice. I can't imagine seeing chunks of ice just laying on the beach like this. I can't decide whether the dark cloud in urc adds or diminishes the image. The soft water from the slow ss nicely shows off the ice blocks in a better way. Nice image.

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Comment posted by Ken Henke on May 19, 2018 at 3:20 PM

Sweet ice image! Yea, for me the dark cloud in the upper right is a bit distracting. Maybe also lighten the sky a tad bit?
Cheers

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on May 19, 2018 at 4:59 PM

Enjoy the color pallete here. Very cool.

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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on May 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM

I have seen a lot of these kind of images, but I always enjoy them because there is always something new each time. The lines from the water in the foreground give the composition a lot of energy and the three primary ice chunks with different textures give my eye a place to land. I like the gradient of light in the sky. One recommendation would be to crop some off of the top below the clouds. I find that they tend to draw my eye away from the focal point in the image. Either way, this is still a nice image as is! devil

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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on May 20, 2018 at 6:32 PM

I like that there is a trio of ice pieces in the foreground. each having a different texture. The cloud in the URC is a little intrusive. I tried a roll crop, but the image then seemed to tight on top. An option may be to clone, or just live with the cloud in reality.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on May 23, 2018 at 9:39 AM

A mesmerising place indeed, the soft low contrast approach works well in combination with the pastels. Composition works great too with that trio of ice fragments.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 27, 2018 at 1:36 PM

Beautiful scene - very peaceful and serene. Great bergs and soft water flow, and a sweet hint of horizon colour.
Congrats on a fine WP!
Sandy

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