TRAVEL WITH PASSION 2015

ICELANDTRAVEL ON VOLCANOESJUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015

BETTER MOMENTS

ICELAND

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES JUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015

Photo: Hans Strand

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES

JUN

E 28 - JULY 5 2015

Photo: Hans Strand

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES JUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015

EXPLORE WITH HANS STRAND

ward-winning and European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Hans Strand will take

you to a miraculous destination: Ice-land. The land of fire and ice. A land of spurting geysers, glaciers, boiling mud pools and waterfalls. Its mys-terious landscapes is an inspiration for many artists and photographers, who have a great passion for land-scape photography.

The land is densely populated, pure, unpolluted and hold truly magical stories and is an adventurous play-ground for curious travellers and passionate photographer.

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Photo: Hans Strand

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES JUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015

ITINERARY

DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN ICELANDWe meet at our Hotel in Reykjavik. Before dinner, Better Moments will present a detailed briefing on the coming week and workshop.

DAY 2: THE DOOR HOLEPhoto shoots by the mighty waterfalls of the south coast, Skogafoss and Seljalandfoss. We will spend the afternoon exploring the basalt cliffs of Rey-nisfjara and do an evening shoot off the vast cliff Dyrholaey. This is one of our favorite spots in Ice-land - and the view is stunning: The impressive gla-cier Myrdalsjokull is visible to the north. To the east, you can see the black lava columns of the Reynis-drangar peak out of the sea, and finally to the west the whole coastline stretches out before your eyes. In front of the peninsula, there is a gigantic black arch of lava towering in the sea, which gives the peninsula its name (meaning: the hill-island with the door-hole).

DAY 3: JÖKULSÁRLÓNThe extraordinary glacier lagoon Jokulsarlon is the largest glacial lake in Iceland. It is situated at the south end of the glacier Vatnajokull between the Skaftafell preservation area in Vatnajokull National Park and the town of Hofn. We will spend the day along the coast and experience the mighty and pho-togenic icebergs that makes the water in the fjord foaming white. We will organize our photo shoot according to the light in order to optimize the shoot - if it is gritty or if the weather is overcast with dra-matic skies. After dinner - evening and long expo-sure shooting of the shimmering icebergs floating in the lagoon and along the coastline.

DAY 4: FJALLABAK , SVARTIFOSS AND LANDMANNALAUGARIn the morning we will drive back along the south coast and turn north at the winding mountain road to the Fjallabak Nature Reserve. This will be a very scenic drive through a spectacular volcanic land-scape. The land is mountainous and sculptured by vol-canoes and geothermal activity, covered by lava, sands, rivers and lakes. During the drive we will make frequent stops for shooting, before arriving at our hotel. In the evening, we will run a slideshow workshop on how to optimize your skills in landscape pho-tography.

DAY 5: LANDMANNALAUGARLandmannalaugar is a true gem in the middle of an amazing landscape situated in the highland of Ice-land at the edge of the rhyolite lava field Laugah-raun. The banks of the brook are boggy and lush. The sur-roundings are colourful and magnificently encased in clouds of steam from the many hot springs. This area is one of the most distinctive locations in the world. The mountains are split with gullies and gorges, one of which, the Jokulgil, is about 13 km long. We will spend the day in the area, where we will explore the most scenic locations for our shooting, including hot springs and viewpoints overlooking the stunning volcanic landscape. After lunch, we will make an easy hike through the dramatic land-scape to one of the hot springs and into the wild.

Photo: Hans Strand

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES JUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015

In the evening, as a preparation for the aerial pho-tography of the next days, we will offer you a work-shop on how to shoot great aerials.

DAY 6: HIGHLANDS AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHYAerial photography over the highlands near Land-mannalaugar. We will take off by helicopter from a landing spot near Landmannalaugar and shoot this fantastic landscape from above. A truly unique op-portunity to get images you have only dreamt of - and it will be a moment you will remember as long as you live.In the evening we will look through our images from the aerial shoot and give you feedback on your photography.

DAY 7: GJÁIN – HÁIFOSS – REYKJAVIKIn the morning, we will drive through the scenic landscape of the Hrauneyjar center on our way to Haifoss. We start off in the Highland, but we will quickly move on to dirt roads and eventually barely discernable tracks across the pitted lava and ash plains in the shadow of Hekla, one of Iceland’s more active volcanoes. We will enjoy our picnic lunch around the Haifoss area. Haifoss is one of the most impressive water-falls of Iceland, which plunges 122 meters into a deep gorge. After lunch and shooting, we will drive through the scenic landscape to Gjain, a pictur-esque canyon in Tjorsardalur. Farewell dinner with the best view at the world famous opera and culture house.

DAY 8: DEPARTURETransport to Keflavik International Airport for re-turn flights.

EXPERT: HANS STRAND

TRAVEL ON VOLCANOES JUNE 28 - JULY 5 2015Photo: Hans Strand

Hans Strand’s work has been dis-played in numerous exhibitions and published in many interna-tional photography magazines. He has received several awards for his photography, including the Hasselblad Master Award and the European Wildlife Pho-tographer of the Year. Strand has published three books on land-

scape photography. Hans has always felt himself drawn to the untamed and non-manipulated that he finds in Nature. “The wilderness is the mother of all living things. It is always true and never trivial”. Over the years Strand has had the entire world as his workplace. Photographing everything from

the vast expanses of the Arctic, to steaming rainforests and dry deserts. He was born in 1955 in Marmaverken, Sweden. After a nine year career in mechanical engineering he decided to make a dramatic change to devote his life to landscape photography. A change he never regrets.

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