Iceland - Asbyrgi Canyon
Asbyrgi Canyon is a horse-shoe shaped canyon that is filled with a deciduous forest and ends with a small lake at the bottom of the horse shoe. I wish we could have been there with fall colors, but who wants to ride a ferry in the North Atlantic that late in the year? So we settled for early August.
It’s a national park with its own campground, so we managed to get a spot right where we wanted to be for our photo shoot. We spent the afternoon we arrived scouting locations out and settled for an obvious spot for early the next morning - before the crowd start arriving.
We couldn’t have had a more pleasant morning photographing. Strangely enough, most of our images were made from a large dock at the end of a trail.
For the longest time it was Ann, me and the ducks. Though I have to say that the ducks occasionally interfered with my reflections. No worries, wait a few minutes and they’d pass by.
We took our time, moving from view to view, working what was admittedly a limited location. Still, it offered some lovely images and was as serene a photographic environment as you could hope for.
Eventually, folks started coming by the dock and it was time to stop - footsteps caused the tripod to shake over the long exposures we were using, thus ruining the images. We packed up and made the short hike back to the car. By the time we got there, cars were pulling in left and right. After packing everything away, we got in the vehicle to see the parking lot 1/3 full. And we confronted 5 cars on the 1-lane road out of the park. It was a hint of how things were likely to turn out for much of the trip - early morning photography when possible, and then the crowds.