Iceland – Aerial Views of the Glacier Landscape in Skaftafell National Park
After the sandur plains we went on to the Svínafellsjökull glacier and then to Skaftafell National Park.Of course the drone had to go up here too. The Svínafellsjökull is an outlet glacier of the Vatnajökull, Iceland’s largest glacier, and has already served as a filming location for films such as Interstellar; Skaftafell has been part of Vatnajökull National Park since 2008. The textures on the glaciers, the cracks in the ice and the blue-black play of ash and ice are even more impressive from above than justfrom below.
The tongue of the Svínafellsjökull pushes out of the snowy mountains.Turquoise crevasses in the snow, as if drawn with a brush.Torn ice in turquoise and white.The glacier tongue with its crevasses, tall and narrow.A field of crevasses fans out beneath the snowy mountains.Dark crevasses slice through the ice.Ice, rubble and snow – the blue-black play of ash and ice.Turquoise ice and snow at the edge of the glacier.The glacier and its crevasse field in front of snowy slopes.A web of crevasses, as if someone had crumpled the ice.Long crevasses running straight down the frame.The glacier front with its crevasses, the wide outwash plain behind.Meltwater winds across the outwash plain in front of the glacier tongue.Branching meltwater channels, pale on dark ground.Bands of rubble running through the glacier ice.Ice ridges and crevasses – a relief carved in ice.At the edge of the glacier lies a lagoon full of ice.A dark central stripe runs down the glacier tongue.Fissured ice with dark meltwater holes.The glacier mirrored in the still lagoon.Snowy mountains and ice at the lagoon in the last evening light.The glacier front reflected in the smooth water.A dirty wall of ice and its reflection in the lagoon.A tall wall of ice at the edge of the glacier lagoon.The glacier front and snowy peaks under a grey sky – Interstellar was filmed here.Ice washed smooth by water at the glacier's edge.Blue ice between two mountain slopes.The glacier tongue between dark rocks in cold, blue light.The whole panorama: the glacier tongue in Skaftafell National Park.Glacier and meltwater plain beneath a snowy mountain – an outlet of the Vatnajökull.
