The black basalt cliffs and beach at Vik in Iceland contrast nicely with the white surf of the big atlantic waves.

Photographed at dawn from a point further along the headland where a small river that you can see at the bottom of the photo flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

The biggest issue with this photo was trying to hold the tripod down in one place during the 2 minutes that the camera took to take the image - the winds on top of the cliff edge must have been at least 30mph and at one point I nearly lost the camera and tripod over the edge.

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A waning crescent moon photographed at Vik on the south coast of Iceland in October 2012. The shape is distorted slightly by the movement of the moon during the long exposure time of the photo.

I presume the bright star near the moon is actually a planet but I'm not sure which one.

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Photographed in Iceland in the 'Golden Circle' area east of Reykjavik

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Photographed in South Iceland on the coastal plain.

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Photographed from behind the waterfall at dusk.

To give you an idea of scale the waterfall is 60m high and the spray from it filled the air; in fact, the biggest problem in taking this long exposure photo was keeping the water off the surface of the 6 stop neutral density filter that was screwed onto the front of the lens for the 1 second exposure time that I was after.

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