The black lava plains have weathered to give black sand beaches - they were so different to our Aussie beaches! This area is where the volcano erupted a few years ago and disrupted flights for several days. You could see huge boulders strewn around paddocks and embedded in the lava plains - pretty scary!.
Interesting composition with the beach going away from you and the foreground with the figure. Beautiful colours. I remember that volcanic eruption, we had to fetch a friend's car from an airport because they couldn't get a flight back to UK!
@sarahlth Hi Sarah - I think Iceland probably gets the credit for this one - it was just so naturally beautiful. :) I'm still 2 behind for the 52 week challenge - the "focus stacking" and the new one - the "classical novel" idea. Have you been able to keep up?
@rosie00 Hi Lesley - you could see huge boulders strewn around paddocks etc as if they had just plummeted from the sky. I don't know it that was during the last eruption or not - but boy were they impressive.
@golftragic Thank you Marnie - it was a wonderful viewpoint and the landscape was amazing so I probably can't take too much credit for the end result. LOL But I did love those black beaches - and the fact that huge glaciers were just behind the shore front! The girls were laughing about that name - apparently there were lots of Facebook videos of TV commentators trying to pronounce it! :)
Great shot of an amazing landscape. We have no black sand beaches here either- so that would be so interesting to see. Was it actually the consistency of sand or a bit grittier?
@4rky LOL - love your comment 4rky - I actually thought about it before clicking and tried to get the rule of thirds working both horizontally and vertically - so thanks so much for noticing!! :)
@olivetreeann Hi Ann - it wasn't really like sand - it was much coarser - more like granulated basalt - little tiny pebbles. It did look amazing though.
