As landscape photography is one of my main areas of interest, I am am truly excited about this week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape.  Each day this week, I will share some of my favorite landscape shots.

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View across Eyjafjörður

This shot was taken in the town of Ólafsfjörður looking out over the dock that reaches out into the Eyjafjörður.  This little town sits nestled into the hills that rise from the fjord.

The town grew up around the herring industry that was in much bloom in the 1940s and 1950s, but the herring are gone now.

Ólafsfjörður was connected with a road for the first time in 1940, when the horse riding trail through Lágheiði was improved enabling cars to get over the heath. Before, ships, seaplanes, and horses provided the transport.

Hope you like it.

Technical Details

This image was shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mk III with an EF 24-105 f/4L lens (circular polarizer attached).  This image was shot at 1/125 second at f/11 at 320 ISO.

Inspired by Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge – Landscape

28 responses

  1. Oh, wow. Amazing!

      1. You’re welcome!

  2. I love your entries! Your ‘landscape’ photos and the rest look really amazing.:)

    1. Thank you very much!! I appreciate your kind words!!

      1. You’re welcome! 🙂

  3. Amazing photos! I like your entries.You’re such a good photographer.Those landscape photos and the rest really look great.Keep it up! 🙂

    1. Thank you again!

  4. cracking photo love it, check out my post, i will be posting my wpc later on https://robdphotographer.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/the-worm-animation/

    1. Thank you kindly! Love the video!! That’s just amazing!!

      1. Cheers was fun creating it

  5. Now THIS is nice! I really like your capture of the line of fog or condensation hovering over the foot of the mountains. Nice work!

    1. Thank you very much, Paul! I appreciate that!!

  6. Beautiful shot. Thanks for sharing.

  7. I have no idea how to pronounce where you took that photo, but it’s beautiful. I also enjoy landscape photography.

    1. Thank you! Icelandic is not the easiest language to learn (I tried and failed 🙂 )

      1. I don’t think I would try. Out of curiosity, were you there for pleasure or work?

      2. Just for fun, as I decided to take 4 days to decompress in Iceland, when returning from Europe last year.

  8. Absolutely loved your photo!

    1. Thank you very much!!

  9. Lovely.
    No red herrings even? They are gone too!

    1. Thank you!! They are hanging with the blue fish 🙂

      1. ☺☺☺

  10. Beautiful, beautiful mountains!

  11. Another stunning photo. Each one better than the last.

    1. Thank you so much!

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