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Among the lava fields

Among the lava fields

From the course: Landscape Photography: Iceland

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Among the lava fields

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- [Voiceover] Some of the more fascinating and interesting landscapes that I've encountered in Iceland and also some of the more challenging to photograph are the moss-covered lava fields that can be found throughout the country. These lava fields vary in size and age. Some date back to eruptions thousands of years ago. While one field along the southern coast is only a little more than 230 years old, and was formed during the catastrophic eruption of Laki in 1783 and 1784, the lava field from that eruption stretches for miles on either side of the ring road in the southern part of the country. The 2014-2015 eruption of the volcano at Holuhraun in the uninhabited region just north of the Vatnajökull ice cap, produced the largest lava flows since the Laki eruption. These areas are huge expanses of sharp and jumbled lava rocks, some quite large that over the years have been covered with a mantle of thick, soft moss. It really is a fantastical landscape that sometimes looks like it's…

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