Iceland – Stjórnarfoss

Part of a series of posts about my travel in Iceland, including visits to eleven waterfalls.

Stjórnarfoss was unusual among all the falls I visited – hardly anyone else was there.  In my half-hour on site, perhaps a dozen people came by to snap their photos. In the photo below, the presence of a few people give you a sense of scale for this two-tier waterfall.  Here I deployed my secret weapon: water sandals, which I used at about half of the waterfalls on this trip.  The water was cold, and lapped at my rolled-up pants, but the opportunity to wade shin-deep allowed me access to compositions impossible for those who needed to keep their feet dry!  Read on…

There are four other photos in the gallery, as well as a 30-second video. I encourage you to view the photos in slideshow mode!

Reference: I learned about this place from a guidebook, Photographing Iceland, by Einar Guðmann and Gyða Henningsdóttir; translated by Abigail Charlotte Cooper. JTV útgáfa 2019.