It’s been a long while in the making. But next September, I’m running a tour that goes right through the interior of Iceland up to the north east, and then back. This tour will completely avoid the ring road of the country, and focus on taking us into the heart of the highland landscape.
I decided that as much as I love my Fjallabak tour, it is time for me to give it a break (I need to keep my inspiration up), and so what we’re doing next September, is that we will journey through the two main ‘roads’ (I use the term loosely). The Sprengisandur road is perhaps one of Europe’s most stunning journeys. River crossings, vast empty deserts, glaciers along the way. It’s a beautiful journey.
We do stop for the first couple of days around the Fjallabak region, at the start of the tour, as it is only a few hours outside of Reykjavik, before venturing further north on the Sprengisandur road. The north east of Iceland is one of my favourite places to visit. It has some of the more spectacular waterfalls of the country and the return trip will take us to spend a few days around the Kerlingarfjoll area of the central highlands.
I don’t think I could stop coming to Iceland. I think it has become a home from home for me. As I look back at my first visit here in 2004, I would not have envisaged that I would come back so often, nor how Iceland’s landscape would become a teacher for me. I have often said that certain landscapes, when visited at the right time in one’s own photographic journey, can become instructors, showing you a way forward. Iceland has been one of those places for me, and I think that the repeated visits, and learning more and more about the country over so many years, has given my photography more depth than I would have gotten, had I only come here a few times. I am hoping I will keep on returning.