On tour around Myvatn
Tangible Nothingness
It is difficult to express or photograph the nothingness that surrounds us as we drive through the country. The absence of anything giving us a sense of scale of the landscape is stunning just as the infinite details we see for miles, in the soil and rocks, the colours of the plants, the changes in light, wind and water.
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- It was quite windy around Myvatn…
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- Julia gives scale to Hverfjall crater
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- A bathing cave in a lava crack
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- Sunrise over Reykjahild
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- Mountains in Olafsfjordur
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- Next stop – Nothingness
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- Lake near Jardbadsholar
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- The blue lagoon of the north
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- Stora-Viti maar, formed in 1724
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- Cairns along our piste
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- A colour close-up
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- Colours near Leirhnjukur
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- Tourists on the Kleifarholar pseudo-crater
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- Gero at the Dimmuborgir lava formations
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- Vindbelgjarfjall mountain
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- A sulphur mud pool at Hverir
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- Steam vents and hot pools
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- The Hverir pools and vents
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- Basalt near the Dettifoss falls
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- Landscape formed by the Krafla fires
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- Near Leirhnjukur mountain
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- Hverir thermal pools
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- Cloud shadow near Myvatn
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- Nothing and cloud
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- Cairns along our piste
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- Near Krofluvirkjun geo-thermal power station
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- Ptarmigan in flight
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- Sulphur steam at Hverir
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- Local scare-crows waving at us.
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- Detail of a sheep skull
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- Hverfjall crater or the moon?
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- View from Namaskard
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- Cairns marking old trails
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- Three sheep in the wind
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- Geo-thermal power plant
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- Sunrise over lake Myvatn
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- Lake Myvatn seen from Vindbelgjarfjall
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I´ve come across your webpage accidently as I was googling herring era museum and I must say that I was impressed having seen your pictures.
they´re special and they talk to the soul. awesome!
thanks for this and I´m gladly publishing your link further for hungry travellers wnated to explore Iceland locally.
hugs from dalvík, from a woman who used to spend a year and a half in Sigló.
Dear Lenka,
thank you very much for your kind comments. I wish I could trade places with you in Dalvik and just spend a day or two in Iceland again instead of sitting in London. Your country will never leave us again & hopefully we will be back in 2012.
All the best, Julia