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Balmerino Abbey

Last Thursday, we drove up to and along the shores of the River Tay. Our main goal was a ruined abbey in the lovely village of Balmerino.

It was a gorgeous February day, cold but with bright sunshine and blue skies. The snowdrops were brightening the grass beneath the trees, the moon was rising, and the honey coloured stones of the old abbey spoke of history.
Magical.

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A colour photo of the gates at the entrance to the abbey. The black metalwork is aged but still strong, and the gate is missing. Beyond it is a stretch of dappled green grass with a set of steps leading to the start of the ruins. There are trees all around, and the sky is almost clear cyan with a half moon rising above the gateposts.
A colour photo of a wooded area, ivy-covered trees and low brush is all around. Across the leaf littered grass banks, thousands of the delicate white bells of snowdrops are scattered everywhere in lovely living carpet.
A colour photo of a gnarled tree, bare of leaves. Other trees are beyond and beside it, but the twisted branches of this ancient wood are more angular and stark than any of its surroundings. In the centre of the shot, in the middle of a cloudless blue sky, the gibbous moon is hanging as if magically supported by the old tree.
A colour photo of part of the abbey ruins. Broken grey stone forms a window arch and, beyond it, more arched windows and a buttress form another wall of the open room. Inside are large wildflowers, brown and lifeless. On the outer wall of the abbey, ivy has grown and thickened on either side of the window as a living frame.
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Falls of Dochart

Mid-June, and the river banks are lush and green. This old tree, still alive and thriving, made a perfect frame for my shot of the top rapids.

The river’s source is the 1130 metres of the Munroe Ben Lui, the water flows 21 km east from Loch Dochart and into Loch Tay.

Killin in Perthshire, #Scotland.

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A colour photo of a river, running into the scene at the bottom left and disappearing around a rocky corner near the centre of the shot. At lower left, the river is turbulent, showing the colour of peat in its whitened water. The rocky riverbanks are green with trees, shrubs and low-growing plants and one large tree with its roots at the bottom right is bent across the top of the picture, forming a natural arch with it's rough-barked trunk. On the right are a few pretty cottages with a cloudy blue sky above.
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Happy Accident

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.

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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.
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Summer Greens

A gorgeous day by Loch Earn, perfect for a stroll along the waterside to a viewpoint above the roads. Magical!

Looking back to June, and a trip we took to Loch Earn in the southern highlands of #Scotland, in the districts of Perth and Kinross, and Stirling.

Am Bioran (608 m/1995 ft) and Beinn Fuath (649 m/2129 ft)

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A colour photo of a body of water with mountains on the opposite side. The sky is blue with fluffy scattered clouds and the waters of the loch are reflecting this. The flanks of the mountains (known as "Grahams") are clothed in green vegetation, the lower parts covered in woodland and the upper flanks showing patches of brownish scrub. In the centre of the shot and down the side of the mountain is a cleft filled with trees, this is a waterfall cascading down, encouraging strong growth. The foreground in front of the loch waters is a row of green trees. Dotted across the water are small boats, and more of them are moored on the opposite shore. It's beautiful.
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Horsetail

One of the beauties of #Iceland is that stunning scenery like this is so easily accessible.

This is Seljalandsfoss in southern Iceland, 60 m/197 ft of pure gorgeousness, situated a short walk from the main ring-road Route 1. There a cave behind it which visitors can enter in summer, but this was taken in March when it was closed.

Part of the Seljalands River that drops from the volcano Eyjafjallajökull.

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A photo of a waterfall dropping vertically from the top of a mountain's flank without touching the rockface after the brink. It's white water is the shape of a horse's tail. The foreground is snow and ice, and a photographer with a tripod is standing in front of the viewer. It's very beautiful.
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Riverside

October, and the deciduous foliage is turning golden. Perched on the riverbank, a stone-built house stands between the trees.

On the bridge across the surging River Dee in Dinnet, Aberdeenshire, the gateway to the Highlands and the Cairngorms National Park, #Scotland.

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A photo of a river taken from a viewpoint on a bridge. The water is rapid and the colour of peat. Along both sides of the river are stands of trees, some evergreen but many showing yellow and gold. The banks are rocky and, on the right, lead to a property facing the river. The house is stone-built and sturdy, with bay windows and a mature garden merging in with the trees along the river.
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Secret Valley

Mid-day in early November and the sun has barely risen. This lovely place, once home to farmers and shepherds, is now abandoned, returning to nature and the arctic foxes.

There is still a dirt road running through it though. Luckily for us, our guide knew exactly where it was.

Flateyjardalur valley in north-eastern #Iceland with the peak of ¹Kambsmýrarhnjúkur (1211 m/3973 ft) top left of centre.

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A photo of a valley covered by snow and ice. Where rock is visible, it's black. The viewpoint is from a raised ridge above a valley with a river running through it. On the right, the sun is visible behind snow clouds but parts of the rest of the sky are clear cyan. On the opposite side of the flat valley floor is another range of hills with mountains behind them. One is particularly pointed and is catching the sunlight although large parts of it are obscured by heavy mists and cloud. The whole scene is extremely beautiful.
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Tales From The Riverbank

Mid-February, and a gorgeous day for following the river as far as we can through the snow-drifts. The main roads have been cleared and the conditions are good albeit with temperatures well below zero C.

Fnjóskadalur, an agricultural valley in Þingeyjarsveit north-eastern #Iceland. Fnjóská, a popular salmon angling river and the longest spring-fed river in Iceland, runs through it.

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A photo of a snow scene with a river curving through the foreground. A range of mountains fills the horizon and disappears into a valley behind another foreground peak at centre right. The sky above has scattered cloud but is deep cold blue and cyan. The sunlight is from the right. The snow lying on every surface is completely untrammelled.
A photo of a snow scene, and the same river except this time in close-up. The untouched snow on the riverbanks is shining and silky, long shadows are being thrown from the right by strong sunlight. A line of mountains on the horizon has a cloud-bank above it. The river water is dark and has large areas completely frozen, most of which are also covered in snow.
A photo of a snow scene, under a cloudy but blue sky. The horizon is hilly and a farm building in the centre right lends scale. The foreground is a smooth snow-field, its surface slightly pitted and with dark areas of rock showing through. On the right, in a depression, part of the river is visible as a few slightly thawed patches next to a frozen and snowed-over surface. The end is a river bank so this would be a pool when thawed.
A photo of a snow scene but, this time, from further away from the river so that its surface can't be seen. The horizon is obscured by large mountainsides and only a small window of blue sky is visible top left. The foreground is a fenced field. Between this and the mountains are beautifully sculpted silken snowdrifts, lit from almost directly behind the viewpoint. The snow is clean and untouched, shadows on its surface are the only sign that it's folded into gorgeous convoluted pleats.
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Snow Mountain Sunset

Mid-November, and by 16:30 the sun has set. The fading light splashes strong colour across the sky and reduces the shadows to shades of dark blue.

Snæfell - the eponymous 'snow mountain' - volcano at the head of Lagarfljót, a huge elongated lake that drains into the sea in eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a mountain under a sky filled with streaked cloud. The sunset has tinted this in strong shades of ochre, orange and yellow. A beard of cloud is streaming from the top of the volcano, and close inspection reveals a snow cap and patches of ice down the flanks. The foreground is a large body of water, picking up a small reflection of the colours above, and the humped outlines of hills on either shore. These are in darkening shades of blue.
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Shear Joy

You might have heard of wind shear, but have you ever seen it?

#Iceland is one of the windiest places I've ever been, particularly on the south coast where this shot was taken. The clouds are clearly showing an abrupt change in wind direction with altitude, commonly known as "vertical wind shear".

This was not a day for driving around safely!

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A cloudy landscape with a distant jagged hill on the horizon. The turbulent sky is woolly and overcast, with a thick layer of opaque cloud at the top of the photo. Near the centre, above the hills, the cloud is streaky shades of grey. This area is showing a distinct zigzag pattern, the lines of cloud switching from travelling towards the left of the photo to abruptly changing to head for the right side. The effect appears as a kinked sharp angle of roughly 90 degrees.
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Strand

Black volcanic sand, clean #Icelandic waves.

Part of the "endless black beach" as seen from Dyrhólæy lighthouse.

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A photo of the seashore, with foaming white water breaking onto a black beach. The shadows show that the light is from the left. A bird, possibly a fulmar, is flying above the sand, providing scale.
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#SunbeamSaturday

10am on a dismal day in September. The Westfjords of #Iceland can be a difficult place to travel when it rains constantly; a lot of the roads are gravel and the potholes quickly fill with water.
Squelching towards Patreksfjörður, I glanced in the wing mirror back towards Ósafjörður at the end of the fjord, and was rewarded with these gorgeous sunbeams.
The bright hope of a better day to come.

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A photo of a landscape, with the lower third of the shot filled by dark, turquoise water and the shore of a fjord. The sky is full of rainclouds and the opposite banks of the water are in dark silhouette. Streaming down from between the heavy clouds are strong sunbeams, in the centre they are striking the opposite shore of the water, on the right they are illuminating the land behind the hillsides, on the left they are streaking away out of shot.
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Geyser Gazers

Haukadalur is a 6 km² / 2.3 mi² geothermal field frequently called #Geysir, although this is actually the name of just one of the 40+ features in this impressive valley.

This shot is of Strokkur, which typically erupts every 6-10 minutes to a height of 15-20 metres / 50-65 feet, although it can sometimes reach up to 40m / 130ft.

The word "geyser" comes from the Old Norse "geysa" meaning "to gush."

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A photo of about twenty people, some in brightly coloured clothes, watching the eruption of a geyser. There is a plume of hot water reaching up to about sixty feet, or eighteen metres, in an almost vertical shaft. There is feathering within the water column and it's obvious that it's been launched into the air with great force. Around the base of the water is a steaming pool, and the people are standing at a safe distance from it. The foreground is an amber coloured sinter cone which the geyser has deposited, and the sky behind it is dark and full of rainclouds.
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Impassable

"Ófært" the sign says because, a little further down, there's a river (Markarfljót) without a bridge.

The mountain is Eyjafjallajökull a.k.a. E16, a volcano in the south of #Iceland. The glacier dropping on the left is Gígjökull.

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A photo of a landscape under a lightly clouded blue sky. The foreground is a gravel bed with a dirt road running between two signposts. Both are yellow triangles with red borders, and contain an exclamation mark. One also has a plate saying "Ófært impassable" and the pole it's on is slightly tilted. Behind these is a large, snow-capped mountain with lower brown rock slopes. On the left is a downward pointing triangle of glacier dropping from the ice cap. The centre of the volcano peak is a caldera with two high points. Some cloud is clinging to the very top.
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In Summer And In Winter

This geothermal area by Námafjall mountain is a surreal landscape of hissing fumaroles, steaming vents, boiling mud pots, and mineral deposits. The powerful stench of sulphur pervades the air. It's hot, and usually snow-free, except for the November day that we visited during a blizzard.

Hverarönd, east of lake Mývatn in north-eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a landscape, with a bare, ochre-coloured mountain dominating the view. Steam is issuing from a fissure in the mountainside. At the foot of the mountain is a wet area with fumes rising from it. The foreground is a flat surface with low fencing to delineate the edges. The sky above is clear and pale.
A photo of the same landscape but, this time, the mountain is almost completely covered in snow. The foreground fencing is still visible and out on the bare flat area beyond there are three people. The sky is full of snowcloud.
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Rainbow Canyon

On a drizzly day, we drove through the eastern Highlands of #Iceland towards a controversial dam. Just as we reached the walkway across it, the sun came out behind us and this gorgeous rainbow appeared.

Hafrahvammagljúfur is a majestic canyon, roughly 8 km in length. With a width of about 100 to 150m it's not the country’s widest, but its depth reaches a staggering 200m.

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A photo of a landscape. The lower half of the shot is a canyon, sunlit from the lower right. Bare, brown, craggy hills can be seen along the horizon, and the ravine zigzags towards the viewpoint. The shadow of a large mountain on the right is cast across the valley. The upper half of the scene is a grey sky with a solid bank of white cloud across it. A clear rainbow is curving from the upper to the lower centre of the image.
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