Winter driving in Iceland
Dangers of speed and inexperience On a recent tour, we were driving past Pétursey on the South Coast… On the side of the road was an overturned Mitsubishi Pajero. I was just about to point this out as an example of why you should drive slowly on the icy roads when I spotted people crawling out from under the wreck. It occurred to me that this had just happened and I had to stop to help. I pulled off the road about 50 metres from the vehicle and as I stepped out of my vehicle, I noticed that the road was quite slippery. It was possible to walk normally but also fairly easy to slide...
Read MoreIceland winter photo tour
This video is a make up of HD footage shot through the windscreen as I was driving. The roads were very icy and the slow speeds help to create a really smooth video. I also used still frames for time-lapse with 2 and 5 second settings. All footage was shot with the GoPro Hero 2. Please share if you enjoy it.
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Time-lapse photography in Iceland winter with Gopro Hero II Shot over a 6 day tour with a family from England. This footage is mostly in the South East of Iceland with particular focus on the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon. My new GoPro Hero 2 was on its debut outing and mostly I was using 2 frames per second for the time-lapse. On the panning scenes, I had the GoPro mounted on a kitchen timer which revolved at a rate of 360 degrees an hour.
Read MoreDangers of Ice at Iceland’s tourist spots
Yesterday on a tour we arrived at Seljalandsfoss. I gave the members of my group a pair of microspikes each and we headed to the icy waterfall. As we approached I was instructing my group about the safety issues and I noticed some tourists were behind the falls. Suddenly I heard a man screaming loudly and I looked over to see a woman sliding defencelessly down the frozen bank towards the waterfall. As she hit a flat surface at the bottom of the bank, she was helpless against the thick ice and continued to slide towards the water. She entered the water and was extremely fortunate to have...
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