articles/Landscape/icefire-page3

The Land of Ice and Fire - part 3 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Paul Gallagher Published 01/12/2012

So you may be asking what I thought of the place and was it all it was made up to be? I have travelled with my camera to many regions and been impressed with the landscape and felt the need to reach for my camera around every corner. I have also been to places that were well publicised such as Iceland and had not been as impressed as I thought I would be.

Iceland, however, was a place that staggered me during each day I was there. On the first night we arrived and stopped on a gravel track as Michael said that he had seen something in the sky. It was the end of the day and the sun had not yet set. We got out of the car and concluded that what we saw in the sky was probably a strange shaped cloud. Later that evening after we checked into our hotel and explained this to our hotelier he then checked his computer and said that the Northern Lights forecast for that night was very strong. The moments following this will stay with me until the day I die as one of the most awe-inspiring displays of nature I have ever seen. The lights danced and glided across the sky until the small hours and I went to bed exhausted and cold to the bones having spent hours photographing them just outside the hotel door.

• The Land of Ice and Fire page 1
  
• The Land of Ice and Fire page 2
  
• The Land of Ice and Fire page 3
  
• The Land of Ice and Fire page 4
  
• The Land of Ice and Fire page 5
  

There are 37 days to get ready for The Societies of Photographers Convention and Trade Show at The Novotel London West, Hammersmith ...
which starts on Wednesday 17th January 2024