Everyone knows that Iceland has amazing landscapes throughout the whole country. But Iceland doesn’t only look beautiful from the ground. It also looks incredible from the sky.
On a recent flight, I had the opportunity to expand my aerial portfolio and focused on mostly top-down images. Photographing top down is not easy. The landscapes look completely different than you’re used to. It’s like seeing a whole new world.
New views go by every second and you have to be quick to capture them properly. All these top-down views really look like paintings, hence the name of this series. Rivers, ground textures, valleys, they all look very different from a top-down perspective. The advantage of using a plane is that you can quickly fly everywhere and your perspective is much higher as opposed to using a drone.
Special thanks to Haraldur aka Volcanopilot for being a great pilot!
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#1
Top down abstract of the bottom of a wide river. The bottom texture looks like blue flames.
25points
#2
Swirling glacial rivers.
24points
#3
Different colors of different mud and glacier streams coming together out of the mountains.
23points
#4
Simple top down view of the waves on the black of the Icelandic beach. The black sand with the white waves makes up for a great contrast.
21points
#5
Sunlight hitting the greens in a valley in the Icelandic Highlands.
18points
#6
The autumn red combines with the blue of the rivers makes a beautiful complimentary color pallette.
17points
#7
An abstract view from the bottom of a glacier stream. I can spend hours taking pictures like this. They all look like paintings.
14points
#8
This flight was in late autumn with lots of autumn red colors covering the valleys.
12points
#9
A river formed like a smoke finding its way into the ocean.
12points
#10
Flying next to the Icelandic coast with interesting textures in the water. The color of the water almost looks like tropical here.
11points
#11
Black & white abstract of river flows.
11points
#12
Another close up abstract in the form of an arrowhead or an organ. Whatever you want to make of it!
10points
#13
Harsh light on a bunch of streams. It looks like they’re forming the roots of a tree.
8points
#14
Rivers along the coastal areas with lots of different textures combined. It looks like a water painting.
8points
#15
Big rivers mounting into smaller streams. The excerpts are like organisms on their own.
7points