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Well, this has been one year. Many will remember this as a pain in the ass.

I had the privilege to discover Iceland at this time, and will never forget what I witnessed at the Eyjafjallajökull.

This shot is semi-long exposure, taken after sunset, low light. I used long exposure because I wanted to show the fast movement of the ash cloud. My one regret on this one is that the shot lacks some mountains... the cloud is too much at the center.

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Dark sand beaches at Dyrho?laey.

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Northern Lights in Reykjavik, Iceland.

That night, I witnessed the most intense auroras i've seen in Iceland. But my friends and I had dropped my car keys on the ground, so the time we spent looking for them the show was almost done. We did see some amazing things though.

Auroras are also known as the Northern Lights. They are due to the solar wind coming from the Sun and stopped by the Earth magnetic field. They can show up in different colors depending of the altitude : green being the most common, they can be pink, red, yellow blue or white.
You can witness these wonders of nature from September to April in Iceland.
As the photo can't show, they are not moving really fast (just like clouds moving in the wind).

If you live in Reykjavik and want to take pictures of Northern Lights, I highly recommend this location (see map) as you are close to the city, but no surrounded by any light, and you have the sea on each side.

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Gulfoss is a famous waterfall in Iceland, where water coming from a melting glacier follows the riff between the European and the American tectonic plates. These two plates are moving apart 2 centimeters each year.

If you want to sound smart, you can say that Europe is on the left, and America on the right ;)

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One of the many river in the Þo?rsmo?rk valley. When hiking, you have to cross them, choose your style : jump, try the rocks, trust you shoes or go barefoot. This place is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful of Iceland, because it mixes volcanoes, glaciers, forests, waterfalls and mountains. Something about there feels magical.