Iceland never disappoints! This was my third visit to what has become my favorite place on Earth. Feast your eyes!
This time — a quick five-day trip to try to catch the Northern Lights – and SUCCESS!
Interesting Note: All those beautiful pictures we’ve seen of all the colors connected with the Northern Lights — you mostly get to see that ONLY in photographs. To the naked human eye, all you generally see are back-lit, diaphanous, thin cloud-like patterns, with no discernible color. Even though you can see in these images here that the sky was decidedly green. The camera is able to pick up the color because we shot an 8 second exposure with jacked-up ISO. Never knew that before this trip!
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Northern Lights 
Northern Lights2 
Reykjavik side street. 
Famous Hallgrimskirkja (church) in Reykjavik. 
Inside Hallgrimskirkja 
Iceway’s main highway. 
Snaefellsnes Peninsula 
Heading North toward Snaefellsnes Peninsula 
Outside the ice cave. 
Approaching the entrance to the glacier. 
just inside ice cave. 
Entrance to glacial ice cave. 
Inside a glacial ice cave. 
Inside the glacier. 
Black sand beach. 
Old lava fields. 
On the way to North 
Lake at Reykjanesfolkvangur, a half hour from Reykjavik. 
Heading North. 
Beautiful landscapes are endless. 
Reykjanesfolkvangur again. 
Reykjanesfolkvangur 
More thermal activity. 
Steam rising from boiling sulphur water. 
Here’s where you stand. 
On the left is the North American tectonic plate. On the right is the European tectonic plate. 
Driving North
Toby A. Smith 