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8am in mid-November, still quite dark and we were just leaving the hotel. The moon was rising above the glaciers so I stopped to take a shot of it.
What I hadn't realised was that I'd left the camera settings I'd used for aurora the night before. As a result this is a long exposure and, I think, it works rather well.

ISO 400, f/2.8, 5 second exposure

Höfn¹ in Hornafjörður², south-eastern #Iceland.

¹𝙃𝙪𝙥𝙥
²𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙣-𝘢-𝘧𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘳-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳

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#SaturdayScenery #LandscapePhotography

A colour photo of a landscape with a foreground of browned vegetation and fences. On the horizon is a line of snow-capped mountain peaks with glaciers dropping to ground level at three places. Just above the mountains is the rising moon, over-exposed to become a bright ball of shining light. There's a cloud bank below it, just above the ice sheet. The sky above the moon is clear and dotted with stars.
#Iceland #LandscapePhotography #saturdayscenery @photography group

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Dammit, I thought I was beginning to 'get' Islandic phonemes, but how the hell does "Höfn" come out as "Hupp"?

Thx!

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fn is pronounced pn. The N is very very subtle though, almost breathless, which is why it sounds like hupp to an English speaker.
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@projectmoon

My 'friend', I'm nearly ready to retire from work, and Iceland is on my bucket list of 'stuff to see b4 you die'.

Sadly I'm too late to sit in a hot-pool with my late fiancè watching the midnight sun at midsummer, and drinking champagne from the permafrost, which is what we'd always said we would do. Hey ho... maybe one day, with someone.

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