• Please use real names.

    Greetings to all who have registered to OPF and those guests taking a look around. Please use real names. Registrations with fictitious names will not be processed. REAL NAMES ONLY will be processed

    Firstname Lastname

    Register

    We are a courteous and supportive community. No need to hide behind an alia. If you have a genuine need for privacy/secrecy then let me know!
  • Welcome to the new site. Here's a thread about the update where you can post your feedback, ask questions or spot those nasty bugs!

Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Herðubreið

R

Rajan Parrikar

pro member
The table mountain Herðubreið in the Highlands of Iceland seen on a stormy afternoon.


herdubreid-bw.jpg

For more images in the series, see this.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Rajan Parrikar said:
The table mountain Herðubreið in the Highlands of Iceland seen on a stormy afternoon.


herdubreid-bw.jpg

For more images in the series, see this.
Click to expand...


Rajan,

This is thundering fabulous! The action is all in the sky!

Wikipedia has some interesting tidbits:

Herðubreið is a tuya in north-east Iceland. It is situated in the Highlands of Iceland in the midst of the Ódáðahraun desert and close to Askja volcano. The desert is a large lava field originating from eruptions of Trölladyngja. Herðubreið originally sat beneath Vatnajökull glacier, which was much larger during the last ice age.
Due to the mountain's steep and unstable sides, the first ascent was in 1908 despite centuries of knowledge of its existence.[citation needed]
Near the mountain lies an oasis called Herðubreiðarlindir with a campground and hiking trails. In former times, outcasts who had been excluded from Icelandic society because of crimes they had committed lived at the oasis.[citation needed] One such outlaw was Fjalla-Eyvindur, who lived there during the winter of 1774-1775.[1]​

So, do you have other and wider pictures. At least post "Storm clouds over Herðubreið 5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II" That has really a good height of sky and the color works well. Still, just one more is not enough! This is too incredible, handsome, terrible, and awe-inspiring for one view! Also, while you are at it, how about more sky to get the full plune of smoke and steam?

Asher

Have you adjacent images you could stitch?
 
R

Rajan Parrikar

pro member
Asher,

These were fortuitous shots - something we photographers live for. We were driving out of the area and the weather turned on a dime. I quickly got out of the car and composed a number of frames just before a ferocious rain shower lashed the place.

I could perhaps have let the image breathe some more by allowing more of the cloud cover in, in the landscape photo (by cropping less of the upper portion). Some have pointed out that the foreground is unremarkable, but I think that it establishes the context - that of the high desert surrounding the mountain.

I also have a shot of the altarpiece (described in the account by Lawrence Millman) that I haven't yet posted.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top