In Iceland, you don't know where to look first. One impressive landscape follows another and your eyes are wide open.
It is also wonderful to have such free roads in front of you. Not bothered by traffic, traffic jams, etc.. Of course, weather conditions can change drastically from one moment to the next and you have to take that into account.
This image was taken on the famous R1 ring road that runs throughout Iceland.
The Route 1, also known as the Þjóðvegur 1 or the Hringvegur is a main road in Iceland. It forms a complete ring road around the island and is the longest road in the country at 1,342 kilometres long.
Large parts of Route 1 were built from the 1940s onwards, and the ring road was completed in 1974. In 1998, Hvalfjarðargöng opened, an underwater tunnel north of Reykjavík that shortened the distance around the fjord by almost 50 kilometres.
As of 11 November 2017, the Route 1 route in eastern Iceland was changed. Route 1 originally ran between Breiðdalsvík and Egilsstaðir through the interior, via the Breiðhaldsheiði, a mountain pass that is impassable in winter. Since then, Route 1 has run via what used to be Route 92 and Route 96 and runs longer along the coast, via Reyðarfjörður.[1][2] On 28 December 2018, Vaðlaheiðargöng, a 7.5-kilometre-long tunnel near Akureyri, opened.
I am a passionate all-round photographer with a preference for nature and wildlife. Photography for me is mainly about capturing the moment, be it in nature or just on the street... Read more…