JOURNEY TO THE VOLCANO!
BEFORE…
I went to Iceland for a project in march… and I knew about the earthquakes… I knew that something might happen while I was there.. A sleeping volcano might wake up!
I planned to stay for 5 days after quarantine and shoot a few projects that I had lined up and then be ready to jump if the eruption started. But.. no.. Nothing happened and I drove back to the ferry that would lead me back home to the Faroe islands.
The morning after I arrived home I got the news… An eruption has started in Iceland… great… what a timing!
But few weeks later I got a project in Iceland and they just took the quarantine off for people travelling from the Faroe islands! The journey started.. I took the ferry back to Iceland, drove for from Seydisfjordur, wich is on the east side of the country, straight to the parking lot where the hike begins to the volcano… That trip took 12 hours!
I started the hike around 11 oclock p.m… I was not going to rest until I had seen it.. an hour into the hike it appeard, the lava spewing hundreds of meters in the air…And the faint roaring sound! I was still about an hour away from the crater and the excitment was real! I could not stop smiling and I tried to walk as fast as possible… even if it was quite hard to hike and many dangerous paths to begin with.
After 2 hours I arrived… I was standing right there…only few hundred meters from the crater… The heat, the epic roaring sounds and the smell… I have never felt anything like it… Before I did anything else I just stood there…feeling victorious…yet small… I did it…I am here…
That trip to Iceland lasted a week and I went 4 times up to the volcano.. each time seeing changes and seeing different kind of activity in the crater…those hikes and those moments will follow me forever! I was there before they made the paths… before it became touristy…And for that I will be forever grateful…!
The gear!
For those shots I used:
Fujifilm GFX100 camera, Fujinon 32-64mm F4 lens, Fujinon 23mm F4 lens.
Fujifilm XT3 camera, Fujinon 16-55 F2.8 lens, Fujinon 56mm F1.2 lens.
Topdown shot taken with a Mavik pro 2 drone from Dji.
