Iceland | Diving, running, sailing, travel… and stuff

I had previously seen the Northern Lights in Sweden in Winter 2004 on a trip dogsledding between log cabins before arriving at the Ice Hotel. That was a spectacular display; directly overhead and almost bright enough to read by! But I was mostly shooting Kodak Tri-X at the time so I didn’t take any photos. I might dig out some of the others from that trip and post them on here sometime. But on the most recent trip to Iceland, on the East coast, we were lucky enough to see them again

Mostly 4 second exposures, ƒ/2.8, ISO 4000 if I remember correctly. Settings tested at Aurora Reykjavik beforehand! Where we also learnt about Kp index and other useful facts. Readers of my other blog will see that this is ripe for modelling with a 1D RNN 🙂

Some friends of ours had dived Silfra and told us, it’s only two twenty-minute dives, and the rental drysuits leak, and you’re in a huge group, but I am happy to report that it was nothing like this with dive.is. The drysuits really were dry, we dived for 30 and 35 minutes, there was one guide for just B and I, who described us as the most in-trim couple she’d ever seen 🙂 As we were only diving for one day we just brought our dive computers and masks and rented everything else. Max depth was 17m and I surfaced with ~120bar each time, so we could have gone for longer and perhaps would have done in our own kit but overall very happy with the experience.

Some images taken by the guide:

Touching two continents