Rebecca Sullivan Photography, Landscape Photography, Fine Art Photography, Fine Art Prints, Iceland, 

ICELAND

When Nothing Happens

Lines carrying geothermally-generated power cross a rocky delta of glacial runoff below craggy, green, preaks. Iceland is warmed by the North Atlantic Current to a point where it is considered temperate, regardless of its close proximity to the Arctic Circle. The tundras that comprise 70% of the land mass are uninhabited, continuous, and in pristine natural condition. The middle of this geologically and volcanically active land mass contains a masive plateau covered in ice and sand fields, mountains, and glaciers including the mighty Vatnajokull. This glacier is the largest in Europe, and due to multiple buried volcanoes that erupt and melt ice, it has an unusal number of glacial lakes. The Vatnajokull joins the badland plateau with the coastline, which is swept with dramatic monadnocks, volcanoes, fjords, and green hills dotted with lichens, mosses, and grasses.