Lighted Spaces and Landscapes
Excerpts from a Geographer's Photo Archive
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Category: Iceland
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This is not a great photo–I will be the first to say that. However I love the light here. I was rushing somewhere–but had to pause to capture the light. (Reykjavik, Iceland, 2024)
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My friends Michael and Cristan had come to visit me in Iceland. It was a truly Icelandic visit, because the weather was “Icelandic” and my friends were “all in” as we maneuvered in the countryside, with the wind and rain. (Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, 2024)
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The mid-afternoon sun backlit me as I shot photos down the black beach below. This is one of my favorite photos from that trip because I had fallen earlier in the week and smashed and scraped my face (pretty ugly) and you can’t see this here. (Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland, 2024)
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I know that this is the 3rd photo of the Goðafoss horseshoe. It was just so striking from every angle. (Goðafoss, Iceland, 2025)
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There is actually no problem with them. I joked with an Icelandic friend once that it seems that everywhere you turn around “there is ANOTHER beautiful waterfall!” I described this once as “beauty fatigue.” Kirkjufellsfoss is a prime example. It is a stunning little waterfall, dwarfed by other falls in Iceland and in this case…
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We were driving back to our hotel on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, we were tired but we still opted to take a quick detour to to see Svöðufoss. It was one of those late afternoons when the light does more work than the waterfall. (Snæfellsnes, Iceland 2024)
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Dynjandi is the largest waterfall in the Westfjords and well worth the trip. The day I went, the trail was still under reconstruction but we were still able to climb up to the base of the falls. (Arnarfjörður, Iceland, 2024)
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I had been to Dettifoss before and I wanted better photos of the space. The road was closed to the other side and the place where I took photos in 2021 was impassable due to snow that was still covering the trail (center right of the photo). Didn’t get the shots I wanted but spent…
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Yesterday was focused on just the small fall on the right. Here is the whole Goðafoss horseshoe. (Goðafoss, Iceland, 2025)
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I was starting a trip in northern Iceland and I had been driving most of the day before I stopped at Goðafoss. Although the expanse of the horseshoe falls is the attraction, I became interested in the nuances of the falls such as this small fall in the horseshoe. (Goðafoss, Iceland, 2025)
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