Gudrun's photos with the keyword: blue planet

Strokkur in action

27 Jan 2015 26 32 981
Strokkur geyser erupts regularly every few minutes. It lies in Haukadalur geothermal area on the southern end of the Langjökull fissure swarm. The big Geysir lies dormant nearby. The area has been experiencing repeated quake swarms and is expected to become volcanically more active with potential eruptions in Langjökull in the coming years/ decades.

Cuernos del Paine

20 Jan 2015 47 46 1433
Cuernos del Paine seen across Lago Pehoe. The mountains in the National Park are of granite, heavily eroded by glaciers. The Cuernos are special in that they still have a shale layer on top.

Pink sunrise

13 Jan 2015 34 34 1219
8.15 p.m. just north of the arctic circle- that pink colour was real!

Winter afternoon

09 Jan 2015 16 6 869
Bentsjordtinden seen from the coast at Tisnes, Kvaløya. At 2.30 p.m. the sun is already disappearing behind the mountains.

Aurora over Ringvassøya

05 Dec 2014 47 32 1676
7.52 p.m.- a night of Aurora watching started promising with a low arc and some more green behind the clouds. The idea was to have the northern lights reflected in the water and ice - it was not to be.

Big skies

03 Jan 2015 17 10 812
Evening (7.55 p.m.) at Eyjarfjörður near Akureyri with Tröllaskagi peninsula to the west, Kaldbakur (1167m) on Flateyjarskagi peninsula to the east.

Le Pied du Mur

30 Dec 2014 10 10 930
Coast path above Marble Bay (Le Pied du Mur) on Guernsey's southeast coast.

Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon

26 Oct 2014 36 30 1249
Jökulsárlón, fed by Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, is famous for its floatings icebergs. It is a popular film setting- for a James Bond movie the short river leading to the sea was blocked so the lake could freeze over.

Blue hour in Hadselfjorden

20 Nov 2014 46 50 1461
Sailing towards Raftsund on a very cold clear winter's day. The moon shines over the island of Hinnøya (the light on the left is a salmon farm).

Breiðafjörður

05 Dec 2014 6 11 921
Crossing Breiðafjörður on ferry Baldur from Stykkisholmur to Brjánslækur- looking back to Flatey and Snæfellsnes.

Kolufossar

29 Nov 2014 16 21 1134
River Víðidalsá flows through 40-50m deep Kolugljúfur canyon. Folklore has it that a female troll called Kola dug the gorge.