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  Size Doesn't Matter A small waterfall this week, but it more than makes up for its lack of stature with beauty. February, and we're crossing Tröllaskagi on our way to Akureyri via Öxnadalur. It's a lovely day, with sunshine and cloud shadows chasing across the snow. The river Öxnadalsá is crossed by a small bridge here, and we paused to admire its sculpture for a moment. #WaterfallWednesday #Iceland #Photography

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  Predawn 9am in mid-November at 66° north, and Siglufjörður is awake. The sun rises in about an hour, but will only reach about 6° above the horizon at meridian. It's been a frozen night, about -12°C / 10°F and the forecast is for sub-zero temperatures all day. Sunny but cold, just how we like it. Later we'll be setting off for another day of adventures but, for now, I've stopped to enjoy the peaceful morning and the lights reflected in the rippled water of the harbour....

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  50/50 Chance Of Cloud The Eastfjords of Iceland on a lovely November day. From the west, a bank of cloud encroaches on a mostly clear sky. As we stopped to admire the pyramidal beauty of Búlandstindur, the cloud described the same angle as the stepped slopes of the mountain. Perfect. #SaturdayScenery #Iceland #Photography

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  I'm not the greatest poet, but this scene seems to demand it. Between the peaks where cold winds sleep The green moss softens stones of grey, And quiet lays its gentle hand Upon the valley's rugged way. And I, who came with restless feet, Am stilled as all the land is still, And learn from mountains, moss, and stone The patience of the hills. Fjarðardalur leading to Mjóifjörður in the Eastfjords of Iceland. #SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography

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  Double Up High above the pointed mountain, two arcs of aurora are forming. Looking north, the almost full moon low in the east-south-east behind us is lighting the snowy mountain flanks beautifully. Mid-November, 7pm. Búlandstindur mountain in Berufjörður, eastern Iceland. Canon PowerShot G3 X, f/2.8, ISO-800, 10 seconds. I prefer longer exposures as more stars are visible. #AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography

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  Volcanic Dawn September 2014, and the Holuhraun eruption of Bárðarbunga volcano is raging about 100 km / 62 mi to the south of us. It's 6:15 in the morning and the sun will rise in about half an hour. Looking towards the east, the sky is already lit by the rising sun but we're directly below the volcanic plume, so it's also strongly affected by the noxious gases in the atmosphere. The result is quite surreal and otherworldly. Laugar in north-eastern Iceland. #volcano...

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  Blue Mountain Late February, and we're heading back to Akureyri for the initial flight of our journey home. First, we're saying goodbye to lovely Mývatn. We stopped by the rushing waters of river Laxá, the low light glancing off the rapids, to watch the ducks bobbing in the quieter areas. The distant peak is Bláfjall, the eponymous "blue mountain" at 1206 metres or 3957 feet high. #TravelThursday #Iceland #Photography

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  Goddess Of The Dawn 10pm in mid-November, and the second part of a two hour auroral display is just coming to an end. The moon is almost full, high in the south-south-east. It's milky light is picking out the snow on the mountain tops as we look north. Berufjörður in eastern Iceland. #AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography

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  Autumn Colours The beginning of October, and the first snow is yet to arrive in eastern Iceland. The forecast is for a lovely day, so we set out early for somewhere we'd never visited before. An immense canyon, revealed by the diversion and reduction of a river, filled filled from bank to bed with "stuðlar" - basalt columns. With its banks heavily wooded and clothed in the colours of autumn, this is Stuðlagil canyon. #FarAwayFriday #ForestFriday #Iceland #Photography

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  New PeerTube video for you! 😊 Goðafoss waterfall on the river Skjálfandafljót has a height of 12 metres over a width of 30 metres. Its downstream neighbour, Geitafoss, is only a 5 metre drop but carries the same volume of water. Both of these lovely waterfalls are situated next to Route 1, the main Icelandic ring-road. #Iceland #PeerTube #video https://peertube.wtf/w/fPnymJCzhcKRQpH7TCgnbq

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  Solitary Cloud-capped and caught in lowering light, its foot stretched into the sun. Shallow surf edged with sunset, dark sands beneath. One figure at the wet edge, capturing the beauty while I capture them. Stokksnes peninsular, south-eastern Iceland. #SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography

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  Double Bend Travelling north along the Eastfjords of Iceland on a beautiful day in mid-November. As we turn towards Fáskrúðsfjörður, the sun is as high as it will get today at only 6° above the southern horizon. Lovely cloud shadows are chasing across the sparkling snow and highlighting the sweeping curves of Hoffelsdalur. The tall peaks in the background are Hoffell at 1092 metres / 3583 feet and Lambafell at 1097 m / 3599 ft. #SaturdayScenery #Iceland #Photography

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  'E Clips March 2015, and a frustrating morning spent trying to image the partial eclipse from our home in Fife. I had a small success with a kitchen colander, but nothing I tried gave me a satisfying result. I went upstairs for a break and walked into my bedroom, where a crystal was hanging in the window. Spread across the bedroom wall were lovely rainbow crescents, dozens of them. For tomorrow, I have my telescope with a solar filter, so no worries! #eclipse #Scotland #Photography

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  A slight detour for me today. One of the problems with living in Scotland is that the sky doesn't get fully dark during the summer. Last night was our first "proper" dark since May, so the telescope came out to play. I concentrated on one area for about 45 minutes, knowing the Milky Way was in that part of the sky but not expecting to get very much from it. Oh boy, was I wrong! Zwo SeeStar S30 Pro, ISO 200, f/5, 2750 sec. Portrait image. #AstroPhotography #Astrodon #AtOptics #P...

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  Good morning, friends, wherever you might be! I've just published another PeerTube video for you to enjoy. This time it's Háifoss; at 122 metres it's the fourth highest waterfall in Iceland. https://peertube.wtf/w/ka57T22xjCuSh9pv65ymzz #PeerTube #Iceland #video

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  Áróra Another night, another good forecast for aurora but not for weather. By 7pm we were parked in a safe place and armed with tripods and cameras, warm clothes, and our books to read, waiting to see what transpired. It was quiet until about 9pm when three things happened. The clouds began to break up, the aurora began to dance, and we quickly unloaded the cameras! Early November, Berufjörður in eastern Iceland. #AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography

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  Splash! North-eastern Iceland in September, and a really beautiful day for whale-watching. We'd been out in the bay on a restored oak fishing trawler for a couple of hours, and were about to turn back when a mixed pod of long-finned pilot whale led by bottlenose dolphins began to race alongside us. In the background, dropping into the bay, is Purkafoss waterfall. Skjálfandi¹ in north-eastern Iceland. ¹ 𝙎𝙠𝙮𝙤𝙬𝙡-𝘧𝘷𝘢𝘯-𝘥𝘦𝘦 #WaterfallWednesday #OceanWednesday #MeerMittwoch #Iceland #Photogra...

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  Cloud Cap October, and we're travelling south through the Eastfjords of Iceland. Reaching the end of Breiðdalur valley and before we climbed the steep road to Breiðdalsheiði and Öxi pass, we stopped to stretch our legs and admire the mountains around us. Heading towards Berufjörður in Fjarðabyggð. The mountain is Dýristindur. #MountainsMonday #Iceland #Photography

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  Steamy Standing on a 500 metre long lava bubble with a crack along the top. This lava sheet was lifted by groundwater steam while still soft and hot, creating lava caves when it cooled. One of them - Kvennagjá - contains a pool of water and was a popular bathing spot until geological activity made it too hot. It's now closed to the public. Grjótagjá¹ in Reykahlið, north-eastern Iceland. The mountain is Sellandafjall. ¹ 𝙂𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙝-𝘵𝘢-𝘨𝘺𝘰𝘸 #SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Iceland #Photography

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  Storm Front Tornadoes in Iceland are very rare, but this strong curve of cloud connected with a distant column that seemed to be spinning. The coffee colour of the water was due to glacial flour, and the deep ripples in the lake show how windy it was. November: Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant in Fljótsdalshérað. Looking across Hálslón reservoir towards Sandfell island - which was a 678 metre mountain - and Vatnajökull glacier, south-eastern Iceland. #SaturdayScenery #Iceland #Photography

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  Scale Something about glaciers that many people don't realise is just how big they are. This one is ≈ 2000 metres high and 800m wide at its terminus. If you look closely at the photo there small coloured dots in the distance. Those are cars parked at the start of the trail to the snout which is ≈ 700m walk. You can also see the debris from the huge 2013 landslide over the foot of the glacier. Svínafellsjökull outlet glacier in south-eastern Iceland. #GlacierThursday #Iceland #Photograph...

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  Nitrogen Fringe Green is the most common colour seen during auroral displays. It's produced when charged solar particles collide with oxygen molecules at altitudes of 100 to 300 km. Sometimes the lower edge of an aurora will have a pink tinge, which is produced by ionised nitrogen at altitudes below 100 km. On this November night, we saw it during an intense KP7 geomagnetic storm. Berufjörður in eastern Iceland. #AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography

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  Mountain Of Hell Whenever we're in the south of Iceland, we try to pay a visit to this lovely monster. Hekla is an active stratovolcano with a height of 1,491 metres (4,892 feet) and shaped like an upturned boat. It has erupted 20+ times between 1104 and 2000, with major eruptions in 1300, 1766, and 1947-48; the latter sent an ash cloud nearly 27 kilometres (16 miles) into the atmosphere. On this mid-February day, it was eerily quiet and brooding. #MountainsMonday #Iceland #Photography

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  Misty Mountains The clear night has led to a crisp morning, and the mountains are scarved with freezing fog. The still waters of the fjord are edged with a crust of rime. The colours of the sunrise are painting the sky. 10:30 in late November, and the sun is at 2° above the horizon. Berufjörður in eastern Iceland. #SunriseOnSaturday #SaturdayScenery #Iceland #Photography

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  3:00 a.m. Early July, and I saw something unusual through our roof window. I dressed quickly, grabbed camera and tripod and headed for the garden. The eastern sky was full of noctilucent clouds. These "night-shining" are the highest clouds in our atmosphere, forming in the mesosphere about 80 kilometres (50 miles) above the Earth's surface during the summer months at latitudes between ≈ 45 to 80 degrees. I was so very lucky! #AstroPhotography #Astrodon #AtOptics #Scotland #Pho...

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  My dear friends and fellow geeks The petition against the proposed AI data centre in Auchtertool received 399 signatures in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to ≈ 7150. I won't flatter myself by claiming even a tiny part of those people took action because of my toot, but it's put a big daft grin on my face this morning. Thank you all who signed, boosted or replied after seeing my post. You're all amazing. I feel quite humbled. Normal service will resume shortly. https://c.o...

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  Help, please. 🙏 One of the world’s largest AI data centres is being planned next to the quiet village of Auchtertool in Fife, Scotland. It is estimated that this monstrosity will consume 20% of Scotland's total energy output. I've put together a few screenshots to show you how it'll impact the area. If you haven't done so already, please sign this petition. Add your voice to those who want to stop this unwanted obscenity from being built. Thank you. https://c.org/X4nGjKFSv...

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  Under Ice Gullfoss is a popular waterfall, usually very busy with tourists arriving by the busful. In March, following a heavy snowstorm, we were almost the only ones there. The path down to the lower viewpoint was closed but some people had still risked it, evidenced by the footprints. Both wearing warm clothes, carrying spiked hiking poles, and fitted with crampons, we made our careful way along the upper platform. The view was simply astonishing. #WaterfallWednesday #Iceland #Photography

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  Road To The Fjord Late February and the weather is bright and cold. The sun will only reach about 12° above the horizon at its zenith. We're travelling south along a beautiful coast road, exploring inland a little but wary of uncleared roads and hidden ice. Turning back towards the water rewards us with this lovely view. On the right is the island of Drangey and the sea stack of Kerling. Skagafjörður in north-western Iceland. #SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography

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  Mountain Shadow Late August in eastern Iceland, and the sky doesn't get darker than astronomical twilight all night. The sun does set, but it doesn't dip far below the horizon. It's 21:40 in Djúpivogur, and there's been a pretty sunset. Even now, the embers remain glowing. Above pyramidal Búlandstindur mountain, the sun is casting its last colour onto the clouds around a long shadow of the mountain peak. #TravelThursday #Iceland #Photography