Drone Photography

Last updated: Dec 4, 2025
Jón Hilmarsson
Verified local
Last updated: Dec 4, 2025

Vestrahorn

Drone photography is giving a photographer a new perspective on the landscape and nature. To be able to fly closer to the mountains, up narrow canyons, over craters, down waterfalls and more is a great way of seeing the landscape and nature of Iceland.

Mountain Vestrahorn is one of our most beautiful mountains in Iceland, here you can see a drone video and a time lapse of the Aurora display.

The Pillars at the black beach close to Vík are great to shoot, here you can fly into the sunset in the beginning of November and see both sides of the pillars.

This waterfall is still a hidden gem in Iceland, there are usually not many people there. It's situated in a narrow canyon and you don't see the waterfall when you start your walk into the canyon. Great bonus - you can go behind this one without getting wet.

There's nothing like the glacier lagoon and the diamond beach in Iceland - nature in its most beautiful form.

Join me on a photo tour to shoot landscape and nature with a drone or just with normal camera, I will take you to the best locations in Iceland.

Jón Hilmarsson
Jón Hilmarsson
Verified local
About the author

I'm an pro landscape and nature photagrapher. I offer photo tours and photo guidance. I also publish photo books and usually have one photo exhibition every year were the subject is Icelandic landscape and nature. I started taking pictures 2007, first I bought Canon 400D and 2010 I upgraded to 50D. Spring 2012 I upgraded again my camera to 5D Mark III and again in autumn 2016 to 5DM4. I was living in the north part of Iceland, Skagafjörður where I was surrounded with beautiful nature and landscape for seven years, 2005-2012. I had my first exhibition in summer 2009 in Hofsós, Skagafjörður. Since then I have had several exhibitions alone or with others. In the spring 2011 I published a photobook; Light and Nature of Skagafjörður. Included with the photobook is a CD with my wife Alexandra Chernyshova. In December 2013 I published my second photobook "Light and Nature of North west". Now I live in Keflavik where I operate my photographic business - photo tours, photo guidance and publication.

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