Iceland 5 – Glacial Lagoon

We returned to Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon today for a second day of shooting of the ice orphans that are sloughed off the glacier, then head out to sea through the tidal lagoon. The interesting ice chunks from yesterday were all gone, but in their place was a lot more ice that had newly broken off the glacier. Iurie (our primary photo guide) told us that the lagoon changes every day, so we had a new collection of ice to shoot.

As we drove from the glacier lagoon to our next target location, we passed a field with horses, and stopped to photograph them.  I walked down with a telephoto lens, expecting to shoot them at a distance.  Once the group approached the fence though, they all came up to nuzzle us and be petted.  I had to switch quickly to a wide angle lens to get them!

Our last stop for the day was a lagoon with attractive clumps of grass growing on black lava sand.  The wind had died down for a couple hours, and the lake provided a nice mirror surface, so I found myself more interested in that scene.

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