OT: Iceland Waterfalls

On a previous thread regarding great places to visit, some waterfalls in Iceland were displayed. Frankly, that really caught my attention as most of the other "scenic" locals I was aware of.
The following link has more Iceland waterfalls taken by Tim Vollmer. Iceland is quickly moving up my bucket list!

http://www.timvollmer.de/portfolios/iceland/waterfall/

Here you go Ken. Just check the Text Style Menu in posting guidlines to make the link active.

http://www.timvollmer.de/portfolios/iceland/waterfall/

And, yes, wouldn't it be great to get to photograph some of that place?

Yeah, high on my list too! Spectacular place! Be sure to have a look at our own Scott Fricke's great Iceland collection too, amazing stuff! http://www.frickephotography.com/gallery/iceland/

Iceland seems to be the current photo destination du jour.
There are currently hundreds (thousands?) of interesting images and 'workshops' from there online.
My pal Joe has a pretty fine gallery of Icelandic images.

I went to Iceland in March since this & next year are supposed to be solar maximum years for the aurora. Unfortunately, the trip leader had never been to Iceland before. We had a lot of rain (7/10 days), but did get to see the aurora 2x. The rain was largely torrential downpours, with the spray from waterfalls flying dead horizontal if not straight up! From what I learned from this experience is: be sure you're going with someone who knows how to get around Iceland, get a serious 4wd vehicle (the kind with snorkels & gigantic tires) if you want to get off the Ring Road (& if you want those spectacular shots, you want to go into the interior), be prepared to camp instead of staying in hotels, and be prepared to eat a lot of gas station food. The way (I learned later) Icelanders take vacations is to plan on camping, & just go where the weather is better instead of following any set plans. I've talked to others who vacationed there & got rain most of the time for a month in summer, too! So, go, but be prepared to be very flexible & don't mind a lot of driving.

Oh my...thanks for those links to additional images. They spur my interest even more. I have to keep reminding myself to stick with macro photography so I don't have to travel to exotic places. Otherwise, I may have to signifcantly delay my retirement until I bankroll enough cash to afford the travel.

Thanks Morris for making the link active. My bad.

Monika, there's a local guy named Andy Long that runs tours over there once a year, I think. He's been doing it for a few years now, so he might be an option. First Light Tours.

Morris,
thanks for the recommendation. It looks like he might be doing a summer tour. I've been thinking of Daniel Bergmann if I go back. I'm on the wait list for an aurora trip. It's a toss-up: do I want to go & possibly sit in the rain again for that long in Feb or wait until August? I was going to do a stopover on my way to/from France next month, but looking at camper rentals and all that driving, I was less than enthusiastic, especially realizing that the season for the interior might be over by the time I get there. Not sure if I wanted to drive a rental vehicle across rivers.....

David Cobb from the PNWNP forum did a walk across the interior of Iceland several years ago; his friend, Jonathan Ley has a photo documentary on his website. Very comprehensive and informative.

I went there two summers ago: check out some of my results here - http://www.freshairphotos.com/icetn.html . There's 1 page of landscapes and 1 page of wildlife.

Highly recommended. I rented a camper truck from http://www.randburg.com/is/camper/ rather than being tied down to hotel/motel reservations. Worked outstandingly well. Did regular visits to public swimming pools for showers. Most towns larger than 500 people have public swimming pools. Gas needs to be bought ahead of time by purchasing gas cards, since stations close early and we spent a lot of days awake from 5pm to 8am for photo purposes.

Don, that rental site looks great! Do you remember what your rental cost? There's nothing on the website about pricing. I'd been looking at Happy Campers. Your vertical of Gulfoss was my favorite view (for the little we could see...) with the water roaring down & mist coming up out of the abyss.

Monika: The rental was ~$500.00 per day. From what I understand, motel/hotels were in the 200.00/night range at the time plus a 4WD rental was about $300.00/day. So $500.00 per day seemed to make sense giving the increased flexitbility that camping on your own schedule gives you.