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Elephant Rock 🐘🌋✨
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One of the most amazing rock formations I’ve ever photographed. Here’s a collection from the famous Elephant Rock in Iceland. This natural basalt formation looks like a big elephant head with its trunk submerged underwater.
Can you see it? 👇🏼❓🐘
14 Nov 2023
My first close-up shots of the new eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula which began a few hours ago (December 18th, 2023). I captured those shots from a safe distance from the town of Vogar, where I sent the drone around 9 kilometers across.
Currently, the lava is not heading towards Grindavík and is collecting up by the north side of Fagradalsfjall. Volcanologists are on location and are monitoring the situation. According to them, the location of the fissure is “safe,” with natural barriers blocking the lava flow to reach towards Grindavík. That’s the current status as of writing this at 2 AM here in Iceland, but things can change fast.
Everyone is safe, and we will know more tomorrow. Check out RÚV English if you want to stay updated on news.
⚠️ To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please contact [email protected]
Volcano sounds recorded by @hljodkuturinn (@upptekid_studio) 🔊
© Hörður Kristleifsson - @h0rdur
18 Dec 2023
Loneliest House in the World 🏠🚶🏻♂️✨
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Series from the loneliest house in Iceland. How epic would it be to live there? Far away from civilization with no neighbors for miles and miles around. Tag someone you would live there with, in the comments below 💬👇🏼
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Swipe for more shots! Which one is your favorite? 📸
04 Dec 2020
Yesterday, I documented a historic moment in East Iceland, where @garpure and @bergursigurdarson became the first in recorded history to climb the north peak of Vaðhorn, the town mountain of Fáskrúðsfjörður 🇮🇸⛰️
The north peak has turned back climbers before. About 30 meters up, the guys found old ropes and bolts left behind from earlier attempts, and nobody in Fáskrúðsfjörður had ever heard of anyone reaching the top.
The day started at 5:50 AM. Local legends from Fáskrúðsfjörður and Breiðdalsvík gave us a ride up a long valley on six-wheel ATVs, loaded with climbing gear and my drone gear, including nine Mavic 4 Pro batteries. Even with the ride, we hiked 7 km in total with heavy packs. At the end of the track, at around 900 meters, everything was frozen and the sun had just risen. Vaðhorn was glowing bright orange, so I launched the drone right away for the shots you see in this carousel.
The mountain is mostly loose rock. Luckily it was around -2°C, and the frost held the rock together enough to make the climb possible. On the way down, the sun had thawed it, and everything was much looser and riskier. So even though it was really cold, it was the perfect day for it.
While they climbed, I stayed on the south peak and filmed for 4 hours on my Mavic 4 Pro, wearing every layer I had. Then, about two minutes before they reached the top, the Eastfjords fog rolled in and covered the whole mountain. Perfect timing 😆 - It cleared just enough while they were on the summit for both me and Garpur to get shots from our drones, and the fog made it even more dramatic.
This mountain is very spcial to me. Back in 2022, I hiked to the top of the south peak and posted a photo looking across at the north peak. Garpur saw it and has been obsessed with climbing it ever since. Four years later, we were finally up there together, him on the north peak and me on the south. It was so satisfying to see it through, and I'm really happy I got to be the one documenting it.
Huge congratulations to @garpure and @bergursigurdarson on an incredible achievement. The full story will be in the new season of Garpur's show Okkar eigið Ísland, so I can't wait to see that go live 🙏🏼
08 Oct 2026
It’s now been 15 months since we had an eruption in Iceland 🌋
While we wait for the next one, here is a collection from the OG Fagradalsfjall/Geldingadalir eruption back in 2021. Where everyone in Iceland came together and watched the epic show. What a time 🙏🏼
07 Oct 2026
Part two of my Rivers of Iceland collection, this time shot on the @Hasselblad X2D II 100C 📸
I shot these from the open window of a small Cessna. Capturing rivers on a medium-format camera in full 100 megapixels and 16-bit color was an amazing experience. The files gave me plenty of room in post to fine-tune colors and get the edit right. I had the 35-100mm lens on the whole time, and with 100MP, I had plenty of flexibility to crop in.
Thanks to @craigelsonphotography for inviting me on this flight, where we were both shooting the Hasselblad X2D II. Truly legendary! ✈️
Iceland has thousands of glacial and freshwater rivers flowing through the landscape, carrying sediments and other materials that create surreal patterns and colors. One of my favorite things to photograph in Iceland, truly like flying over abstract paintings 🇮🇸💙
04 Oct 2026
Winter is coming to Iceland with cozy, snowy nights and a chance of epic Northern Lights dancing above. Here is a set from one of my favorite Northern Lights photo sessions ever. Full moon deep in the Highlands of Iceland, all captured on the DJI Inspire 3 🚁🇮🇸❄️
02 Oct 2026
Lunar-like landscapes deep in the Highlands of Iceland 🌙
What are you looking at exactly? These are tuff rings, formed in a phreatomagmatic eruption. When rising basaltic magma met groundwater, the water flashed to steam and shattered the magma into tephra, which piled up around the vents. The craters themselves are dry today. The small lake beside them lies in a lower hollow along the same volcanic fissure, deep enough to reach the water table and fill from below 💧
No one has dated these craters yet, but tuff rings this fragile could not have survived the glaciers, so they formed in the Holocene, within roughly the last 10,000 years 🌋
22 Sep 2026
The true power of the 100MP medium-format sensor on the @Hasselblad X2D II 100C 📸🤝🏼
Here are some examples from Greenland and Svalbard showing how much you can crop while still keeping a crazy amount of detail. Truly incredible 🙏🏼
Swipe for more shots! Which one is your favorite? 🖼️
Lenses used:
- XCD 2,8-4/35-100E
- XCD 2,5/25V
19 Sep 2026
This summer during one of my drone photography workshops, I captured a sandstorm at my favorite mountain in the Highlands of Iceland. Conditions I had been waiting for for years finally happened, and the results were mind-blowing.
The sky was almost completely clear above, with wind gusts up to 25 meters per second blowing sand and glacial sediments only around this area. It was crazy to fly the Mavic 4 Pro through this, but it survived 🤝🏼
Tomorrow, I’m heading back to the Highlands for another workshop and looking forward to seeing what we capture this time! Want to join me in the Highlands in 2027? DM me and we’ll plan it from there 🇮🇸🚗
Now I’ve captured this spot in all possible conditions, from the iconic moody green look to snowy winter with moonlight as the only light source (see last photo for comparison) ⛰️
Which shot is your favorite? 📸
07 Sep 2026
On my 27-day expedition from Svalbard to East Greenland with @greatexped last month, I photographed the craziest iceberg I’ve ever seen in my life. A massive block of ice measuring 400x300 meters, with a 330-meter-long (1,082 ft) ice cave running straight through it, with open ocean underneath the entire way 🧊🇬🇱
And of course, I had to fly the drone, and successfully managed to fly all the way to the very end of the cave (see slide 13). The ice wall at the other end of the cave was so thin that we had the sun partially shining through, creating a surreal dark-blue glow effect, like a portal to another world 🤯
Flying inside an ice cave in an iceberg that’s moving is tricky and causes the drone to lose all satellite signal. On top of that, the cave can collapse at any time, and in the 5 minutes I spent hovering my drone inside, one chunk of ice collapsed right in front of it. Those caves are so dangerous and unstable that no human would ever dare to go inside.
Want to join me in East Greenland in 2027? Bookings are now open, and from September 16th to 30th, 2027, I’m co-hosting a 14-day sailing expedition with my friend @joe_shutter, owner of @greatexped 🇬🇱
Our home will be the S/V Linden, a magnificent 50m (150ft) tall ship. With only 12 guests on board and three meals per day, we have the ultimate luxury and freedom to explore. Joe and I will guide the whole way, and for those interested, I’ll teach drone photography to capture those landscapes from above.
Want to see the full plan? Comment “Greenland” and I’ll send you more details! ⛵️❄️
02 Sep 2026
Today, I experienced the total solar eclipse in Earth’s largest fjord system, Scoresby Sound in East Greenland 🇬🇱🌙
Being next to 80-120 meter tall icebergs in the middle of nowhere, with no one else around made the experience extra special. Thanks to the legend @joe_shutter and his expedition company @greatexped, we were able to pull this insane mission off. Here are my favorite shots, which one is your favorite? 🙏🏼
- Shot 1: Single exposure on Mavic 4 Pro shot at totality
- Shot 2: Hyperlapse on Mavic 4 Pro into totality
- Shot 3: Unedited iPhone photo, shot through the riggings of @sv__linden
- Shot 4: 4-shot panorama on the Mavic 4 Pro, shot 7 minutes after totality, making mid day look like a sunrise 🌅
12 Aug 2026
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