Iceland – These moodily atmospheric shots of shooting steam and bubbling liquid could have been taken on the moon or some far flung planet, at the very least the set of a sci-fi film.
Instead they were captured in Iceland by French photographer Alban Henderyckx during a trip to Vatnajökull.
Vatnajökull, also known as the Vatna Glacier, is the largest and most voluminous Icelandic glacier, and one of the largest in area in Europe.
It is located in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8 percent of the country.
The 30-year-old landscape photographer says, “Wandering somewhere in the inland of the Iceland, it must have been around 24 hours I was awake. Surrounded by a thick fog, I was driving on the chaotic desert trails of the Highlands.”
All his images are from a single RAW file and processed in a lightroom.
Online reviewers have been quick to praise his pictures.
Ellen Kostad Empson said, “All I can say is wow” and Yanay Tsabary added, “He’s creating art.”
A geyser is a vent in Earth’s surface that periodically ejects a column of hot water and steam. Some geysers have eruptions that blast thousands of litres of boiling hot water up to a few hundred metres in the air.
The most famous geyser is in Yellowstone National Park in the US and is called Old Faithful which erupts every 60 to 90 minutes and blasts hot water up to 60 metres into the air.
Explaining his work, Alban says, “I instinctively followed the energy of my subconscious to immerse myself more in a world without artifice, in nature and the vastness of the landscape.”
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