Country
Iceland
Coordinates
64.15° N, 21.94° W
Best hour
Any hour in December — there are only four of them
Continent
Europe
A city whose main photographic asset is the sky above it.
Reykjavík is not a large or dramatic city, and pretending otherwise produces weak pictures. What it has is latitude: aurora directly over the harbour, a sun that spends December skimming the horizon, and light that stays golden for hours because it never gets high.
Use the city as foreground and the sky as subject. Then drive twenty minutes and you are alone with the North Atlantic.
The wild neighbour
Arctic Fox
Vulpes lagopus
Iceland's only native land mammal — best seen in the Westfjords.
Least Concern
