Gullfoss, the golden waterfall of Iceland

One of the climaxes of our trip to Iceland was visiting the famous Gullfoss waterfall attracting landscape and travel photographers from all over the world every year. It happened so that we were extremely lucky and had much fun capturing the superstar destination.

This is how it all happened:
On one sunny Icelandic morning we drove to the west from Reykjavik. Due to the inexperienced navigator, or the happy chance of her inexperience, the chosen route was not a touristic one, as it later appeared. It lead us through the golden, green, red fields of total desertion our eyes had never seen before and glorious snowy mountains that never left our view! The deeper we went into the island, the more we felt the freezing wind. It was +2 degrees, but the wind made it feel like -10.
Between the golden and red fields we came across a power plant on sulphur springs, a remote farm with friendly furry horses and a lake. Majestic half frozen, but yet alive lake, with the pebble shore and the voice from the past, from ancestors who enjoyed its views and bore its freeze.

Reykjavik, Iceland

In the Atlantic Ocean between Norway and Greenland, touching the Arctic Circle with its northern edge, there lies a land that cherishes the memories of the Viking Age, where our journey in Travel Photography has taken us for the first time. The land of Volcanoes and Geysers and yet the land of ice.

The ‘far far away’ Iceland, with its population of only over 300,000 people, earned the status of the most developed country of the world and the fourth most productive per capita by the United Nations’ Human Development Index in 2008.
Situated to the southwest of the island, the highly modernized capital Reykjavik is home for 60% of the total population of the country. Here is one of the warmest places of Iceland not only because of its numerous spa centres and night life, but also due to the warm waters of the Gulf stream that moderate the climate. The temperature in winter hardly ever drops below -10 degrees. In summer, however, it rarely goes above +15 degrees.