I was lucky to be spoiled by a wonderful sunrise in this ancient river canyon in Iceland. A couple of days before this capture, I waded through the stream to find some cool perspectives from the ground, only to return to these fantastic conditions a few days later. Best of all, I was able to greet this new day just being by myself - that's the way I like it!
I took this image in 2014 after a heavy rain storm had cleared just in time for sunset over the Twelve Apostles in Port Campbell National Park, Australia. To my astonishment, a waterfall had formed at the cliffs of this well known location, adding a little 'extra' to this splendid scene.
This was my second visit to the Stokksnes area in Iceland - in 2016 I had been there for 2 days and never saw the Vestrahorn mountain, so when I returned in 2017, I was eager to finally see it. I had put a lot of trust into the Iceland meteorology service when I started my 6 hours drive from Northern Iceland since they had forecast a wonderful sunrise for this location. When I arrived late the previous evening, Vestrahorn was all shrouded in clouds. I met a really nice Dutch photographer, Corné van Oosterhout (check out his kingfisher photography!!), who had been there for several days waiting for the weather to clear up. Ever when we thought the clouds would start disappear, they didn't - apparently the clouds just swirl around the mountain to return again. At 3am - as forecasted - the clouds started slowly to clear. Corne was vast asleep in this car, but I managed to wake him so he wouldn't miss this sunrise. I was frantically running around to find a good composition, in the end being not really happy with anything I composed. Now half a year later when revisiting the images, I feel different and really love the mood of this frame.
