Everyone knows that Iceland has amazing landscapes throughout the whole country. But Iceland doesn’t only look beautiful from the ground. It also looks incredible from the sky.
On a recent flight, I had the opportunity to expand my aerial portfolio and focused on mostly top-down images. Photographing top down is not easy. The landscapes look completely different than you’re used to. It’s like seeing a whole new world.
New views go by every second and you have to be quick to capture them properly. All these top-down views really look like paintings, hence the name of this series. Rivers, ground textures, valleys, they all look very different from a top-down perspective. The advantage of using a plane is that you can quickly fly everywhere and your perspective is much higher as opposed to using a drone.
Special thanks to Haraldur aka Volcanopilot for being a great pilot!
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Top down abstract of the bottom of a wide river. The bottom texture looks like blue flames.
Different colors of different mud and glacier streams coming together out of the mountains.
Such a dramatic change between the two!! The blue is so pretty, and yet, the brown is so drab!! Coming from the same source!!
Simple top down view of the waves on the black of the Icelandic beach. The black sand with the white waves makes up for a great contrast.
Sunlight hitting the greens in a valley in the Icelandic Highlands.
I love how the white of the rivers, accents the green of the mountains! Such beauty!
The autumn red combines with the blue of the rivers makes a beautiful complimentary color pallette.
An abstract view from the bottom of a glacier stream. I can spend hours taking pictures like this. They all look like paintings.
This flight was in late autumn with lots of autumn red colors covering the valleys.
A river formed like a smoke finding its way into the ocean.
Flying next to the Icelandic coast with interesting textures in the water. The color of the water almost looks like tropical here.
Black & white abstract of river flows.
Another close up abstract in the form of an arrowhead or an organ. Whatever you want to make of it!
Harsh light on a bunch of streams. It looks like they’re forming the roots of a tree.
Slightly clinical, but it looks like a barium x-ray. I find those quite fascinating though, so it is a compliment.
Rivers along the coastal areas with lots of different textures combined. It looks like a water painting.
Big rivers mounting into smaller streams. The excerpts are like organisms on their own.
It could be huge rivers or tiny rivulets, it is very tranquil though.
The beauty that goes unnoticed on this planet is astounding. These photos leave me breathless that something so incredibly gorgeous happens at all. You are very lucky to have experienced the gifts our world has to offer. Nature creates masterpieces that last only moments and we try to leave some statement that says we were here. Thank you for sharing these.
And here I thought I had Adult ADHD or Alzheimer's. Asthma or not, I enjoyed the hell out of the photos.
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The beauty that goes unnoticed on this planet is astounding. These photos leave me breathless that something so incredibly gorgeous happens at all. You are very lucky to have experienced the gifts our world has to offer. Nature creates masterpieces that last only moments and we try to leave some statement that says we were here. Thank you for sharing these.
And here I thought I had Adult ADHD or Alzheimer's. Asthma or not, I enjoyed the hell out of the photos.
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