Saturday and Sunday, our first 2 days, were a separate photo tour as done by a fellow photographer, Sigurjón Pétursson, who is has lived in Iceland all his life. Despite wet conditions, he brought us to some wonderfully photogenic parts of Iceland which we would never have seen otherwise.

He picked us up from the airport on Saturday morning and first brought us to an old sod house, showing us what people lived in a long time ago. Due to the extremely wet weather, I made a conscious decision not to dig through my bag for my regular camera. I opted to use my iPhone 7+ and my new Infrared converted Sony A6000. It is essentially a black and white camera that produces images with white foliage that looks almost like snow. White is how chlorophyll is reflected in IR. It makes for some interesting images. IR also cuts through some haze and darkens skies as you’ll see from the Black Sand Beach on Thursday. There was no snow, despite all appearances. Those cameras account for my Saturday shooting.

He also brought us to an outdoor shrine of a saint that was a small but interesting site. Apparently, she is a saint for metals, and this was discovered after the aluminum smelting plant across the road was built. We made various other stops, including a waterside church, as we headed towards Reykjavik, our home for a couple of days. One stop was a large crisp and somewhat minimalistically designed cathedral that was so interesting to me (the atheist!) that we went back the following Friday. The last stop was the Sun Voyager Sculpture, which is a fascinating subject. and then he brought us to our hotel...