Landscape Photography and a Solar Eclipse

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Monday, 10 August 2026 - The day began among the bubbling mud pots and colorful fumaroles of Námaskarð, before we stopped at Lake Mývatn. In the afternoon we photographed Goðafoss, then continued to Aldeyjarfoss, where a rainbow appeared in the mist. We waited until nearly 10 p.m. for beautiful sunset light.

iceland2026 — We spent an hour at the Namafjall Hverir, a colorful and bubbling geothermal area.

An odd rock in the black mud.

iceland2026 — Small cones where a fumarole spits up mud.

iceland2026 — Bubbling mud.

iceland2026 — Mud bubble bursting.

Boiling mud.

iceland2026 — The ring highway snaking through a mountain pass into the town of Myvatn.

iceland2026 — A volcano like fumarole. Ryan instructed me to get low to photograph and it really worked.

iceland2026 — Water making a pattern in the mud.

iceland2026 — Sulfur and other minerals color the fumaroles.

iceland2026 — Small mudhole with a tiny bubble of mud.

iceland2026 — Leaving the geothermal area, we paused next to Lake Myvatn ("the lake of midges").

iceland2026 — In the afternoon we stopped by a very popular waterfall, Goðafoss translates to "Waterfall of the Gods".

Around the year 1000 AD, a local leader threw his pagan statues of Norse gods into the waterfall to mark Christianity becoming the official religion of Iceland.

iceland2026 — Fed by the glacial river Skjálfandafljót, Goðafoss drops from a height of 39 feet.

iceland2026 — Maneuvering down to the water's edge to look underneath the waterfall.

iceland2026 — The Skjálfandafljót River below the Goðafoss.

iceland2026 — A rather short ride to Aldeyjarfoss. As we exited, there were these outhouses in very nice light.

iceland2026 — The sun was low in the sky as we began the decent to Aldeyjarfoss.

iceland2026 — Aldeyjarfoss is a 60-foot waterfall framed by striking, geometric basalt columns. It is upriver on the Skjálfandafljót, a glacial river fed by the Vatnajökull glacier.

When we arrived, the sun was hitting the mist with a rainbow.

The dramatic columnar basalt formations surrounding the cascade are part of a lava field estimated to be roughly 9,000 years old.

iceland2026 — A smaller waterfall trickled in on one side of the massive waterfall.

iceland2026 — Slow water of Aldeyjarfoss.

iceland2026 — And fast water.

iceland2026 — The clouds were looking good for sunset.

More video at 2100 hrs (9:00 pm) while we wait for the sun to move lower.

iceland2026 — A very stunning waterfall.

iceland2026 — Finally sunset colors behind Aldeyjarfoss. It is now almost 2200 hrs (10:00 pm).

iceland2026 — The Skjálfandafljót river flowing away from the waterfall at sunset.

iceland2026 — The eddies in the Skjálfandafljót form a skull.

iceland2026 — The Skjálfandafljót flows off into the sunset.

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