Guided 3 Day Photography Workshop on Iceland’s South Coast with Waterfalls & Black Sand Beaches

On the morning of your second day, you will return to Reynisfjara in order to photograph the black sand beach in a different light. This is definitely something you’ll be thankful; in the morning glow, this area is truly one of the most beautiful scenes on earth.

Later, you will travel to the little-visited valley of Þakgil, located directly between the glittering Mýrdalsjökull glacier and the seemingly infinite Mýrdalssandur black sand desert. Þakgil makes for an amazing afternoon’s photography, with its glorious green meadows and uncompromising cliff-faces. You’ll find this day to be a fantastic contribution to your ever-growing portfolio.

In the afternoon, you will have more of an open opportunity to photograph the settlement of Vík, capturing its quirky culture and charming streets with a shutterbug’s eye for detail. Once again, you will be staying in accommodation in the village.

It is the third and final day of your photography workshop on Iceland’s South Coast. Before heading back to Reykjavík, you will make another stop at Dyrhólaey Promontory in order to photograph Iceland’s most famous residents; the Atlantic Puffins. Puffins make for fantastic photographs thanks to the rich colour of their bills, pleasant dispositions and tendency to nest together in the cliffside.

On the return journey, you will make a couple of further stops in order to photograph some of the region’s ice caps, including Mýrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull. Despite being one of Iceland’s smaller glaciers, Eyjafjallajökull was, of course, responsible for shutting down European air traffic in 2010 after a violent eruption in the volcano which sits under the glacier.

You will have one further opportunity to photograph the glacial tongue, Sólheimajökull; this small ice cap makes for striking snapshots thanks to the contrasting colours of the ice and adjacent, grey cliff faces. Depending on how conditions were on the first day of this workshop, you may also have another opportunity to capture Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss.