Around Iceland Winter Photo Workshop

Our Around Iceland Winter Photo Workshop is one of our speciality. Arctic Exposure has been offering this Workshop from the beginning, and we know every nook and cranny of our unique island.

Iceland in winter is a unique place, with frozen waterfalls, beautiful Ice Caves, Glaciers & frozen Lagoons, and of course the fantastic Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis. We will travel from Reykjavik, visit the favourite locations of South Coast of Iceland, the Mývatn area in the North and explore hardly visited  & less known areas in winter.

Some of the locations are only passable with the necessary knowledge and modified 4×4 vehicles. Our locations in North Iceland are known as some of the world’s best areas to view and photograph the northern lights.

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Highlights of Around Iceland Winter Photo Workshop

• Super Truck transport during the whole tour, takes us off the beaten track to remote and unique locations.
• Ice Cave, our super truck makes it easy to visit as many ice caves as we like during the tour, but weather and conditions have to be right to allow us to enter ice caves. Safety first!
• Major Waterfalls such as Godafoss (Waterfall of The Gods), remote Aldeyjarfoss and Hrafnabjargarfoss
• Hvitserkur (Dinosaur Rock) in Hunafloi.
• Lake Myvatn with the geothermal hot springs and volcanic craters.
• Remote locations up north to capture the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis).

ITINERARY AND LOCATIONS: As always in Iceland, we will be flexible and adjusted to weather and aurora activity to make the most out of the tour.

Iceland Winter Photo Workshop

Day 1 – Arrival in Reykjavik

You arrive in Iceland and check into your hotel in Reykjavik, which will already be reserved by your tour operator and included in the price.

We meet at the centrally located hotel and go out for dinner in Reykjavik where we briefly go through the tour itinerary, safety share from your native Icelandic guide and some practical things before we start our adventure in Iceland.

If you arrive early in town, you can photograph some of the attractions such as Harpa Concert Hall, Hallgrimskirkja, Sun Voyager or Perlan.

Reykjavik view from Perlan.

Reykjavik City

Day 2 – Þingvellir & Vík area

We start early in the morning and travel from Reykjavik to the south coast of Iceland; we start our photography with a one hour drive to Thingvellir National Park.

From Thingvellir, we travel to the southernmost point of Iceland, Vik. We will stay one night in Vik area, which has many of the most iconic frozen waterfalls and dramatic seascapes in the country, such as Seljalandsfoss, Skogafoss, Reynisdrangar and Dyrholaey, we explore the black volcanic beach Reynisfjara which offers brilliant opportunities for seascape photography with the Reynisdrangar sea stacks and Dyrholaey rock arch.

Dyrholaey

Reynisdrangar

Day 3 & 4 – Vatnajokull National Park

After our sunrise at the coastline of Vik, we continue east to the glacier area of Vatnajokull. We will stay in a comfortable hotel with a glacier view and just a few kilometres from the famous Glacier lagoon.

For the next two days, we explore and capture glaciers from all angles, even from under the glacier, inside a crystal ice cave. We visit Fjallsarlon glacial lagoon, Vestrahorn mountain & many different shooting locations.  The many quality locations allow us to move around as the weather dictates and we can find an excellent photography opportunity in any direction.

Should the Northern Lights decide to make an appearance, our options for foregrounds are truly endless.

Glacier Lagoon

Ice cave in Vatnajokull glacier

Day 5  – East Fjords of Iceland

The picturesque east fjords are calling us. We have already visited Stokknes & photographed Vestrahorn mountain. Now we will stop at the more jagged coastal peak of Eystrahorn. As we make our way further eastwards, we’ll visit unique and less known locations until we get to our hotel, located in a small & charming fishing village.

We will photograph sea stacks, the winding roads and cascading streams down the steep terraced mountains. The East fjords are very quiet and isolated in winter, so for this part of the tour, we will feel like alone on the island, except meeting some local farmers and possibly a few reindeer.

Day 6, 7 & 8 – Mývatn & the Major Waterfalls of the North

From the East fjords, we travel to Lake Myvatn, the winter paradise in the north of Iceland. We capture interesting winter scenes such as horses and turf houses on our way north. We head to the majestic waterfall Dettifoss, where we’ll photograph sunset before we check in our hotel in Myvatn.

For the next three nights we’ll stay at the same hotel in Myvatn, and each day/night we go to new locations. If we have downtime in the Myvatn area, between sunrise and sunset, we can visit the Myvatn Nature Baths to relax and charge our batteries for the next shooting session.

We will photograph and visit many of the most spectacular waterfalls in Iceland, such as Goðafoss, Aldeyjarfoss and Hrafnabjargafoss. These waterfalls are fantastic in the winter mood, and quite remote.

The Myvatn basin sits squarely on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and many of the exciting sights are volcanic or geothermal features. Last volcanic eruption in Myvatn area was quite recently or in September 1984 in Krafla.

This area in the North of Iceland is the perfect location for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) photography as there is no light pollution and the options of the reflecting lake and other interesting foregrounds.

Aldeyjarfoss

Godafoss (Waterfall of The Gods)

Geothermal Hotsprings

Myvatn Nature Baths

DAY 9 – MYVATN AND NORTH COASTLINE

After breakfast at the Myvatn hotel, we head back to the north-coastline and make our way towards Reykjavik. Depending on how the weather is we make a few stops in less known areas.

We will go through the second largest city in Iceland, Akureyri. The capital in the North is home to around 20.000.- Icelanders. After a short stop, we return to the road and photograph the mountain peaks of Hraundrangi, a sharp mountain peak not far from Akureyri.

From there we travel into Skagafjörður, a fjord that offers exciting photo opportunities, such as seascapes, basalts columns and beautiful waterfalls.

Conveniently Our hotel for the night is located as it is only a half an hour drive from Hvítserkur cape, a well-known landmark of the area.

Day 10 – Laugarbakki and Reykjavík

We start the day with sunrise at seascape Hvítserkur, a 15-meter high monolith or sea-stack. The legend goes that Hvítserkur is a petrified troll but the if you don’t believe that the truth is that is a volcanic plug from the long time ago. Whatever is correct it is an impressive photo opportunity.

After lunch, we head towards Reykjavik and make a stop at a few waterfalls. West of Iceland is known for impressive waterfalls, salmon fishing and Viking Sagas. We will also make a stop to photograph Icelandic Horses before we arrive at our hotel in Reykjavik.

When in Reykjavik we will check in our hotel and say farewell as the workshop concludes here.

DAY 11 – DEPARTURE

Transfer from the hotel in Reykjavik to Keflavik international airport.

If you like to extend your stay in Iceland, we can offer you a photography day tours to areas we did not visit this workshop. Snæfellsnes Peninsula, where you find Mount Kirkjufell is a popular add-on.

VIEW MORE OF THE LOCATIONS ON THE AROUND ICELAND WORKSHOP HERE 

Myvatn Lake

Northern Lights at Myvatn

Hrafnabjargarfoss

Mud pools at Myvatn

CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY

If you cancel and the Workshop is otherwise filled, we will refund you the full amount you have paid towards the tuition, minus a $150 service charge. If you cancel and the Workshop does not fill, then you will be refunded according to the following schedule, based on the full fee of the Workshop:

Greater than 90 days from the start date of the Workshop: full refund minus $150 fee.
75 days: 75% refund
60 days: 50% refund
Less than 60 days: no refund

Refunds will be paid by the same method that the original payment was made.
Refunds will be initiated within 72 hours of the time that the request is approved.

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