Oh la la, avec tout ça, j'allais complètement oublier #Laphoto2023dujour n° 76 : hier, j'avais triché parce qu'actualité oblige mais aujourd'hui, on va à Reykjavik avec un double arc-en ciel devant la sculpture "The Sun Voyager" de Jón Gunnar Árnason (1990). Photo prise le 29 septembre dernier.
Well, I thought it was when my son sent it to me from #Iceland today, and then I joked that it might be a new #volcano.
It is, actually, light from a new volcano in the #Reykjanes Peninsula, where all the other action has been.
The son is living (for grad school) on the north side of #Reykjavik (about 25 mi. north of #Grindavík and he said the light in the sky was visible from his apartment. He and his room mate went down to the beach to get a clearer picture.
@FotoVorschlag
"Kaff" oder Großstadt?
Ein Blick auf die Regenbogen Straße in Reykjavík, Island. Das Wetter war leider sehr trist und regnerisch, aber die Regenbogen Farben strahlen trotzdem. In der Entfernung fällt der Blick auf die große Hallgrims Kirche.
(aufgenommen im Mai 23 mit dem Smartphone)
A view of the rainbow street in Reykjavík, Iceland. In the distance, the view falls on the large Hallgrims church.
“I’m not sure if #Grindavík will ever be safe. The town is full of cracks everywhere. It was built on lava that has opened up. That happened 800 years ago, too. We can’t control it. You don’t mess with nature.” #Volcanoes#Reykjavik
Get your caffeine fix at Cloudflare’s Connectivity Cloud coffee bar at #UTmessan in #Reykjavik today. While you wait, dive deeper into what’s new at Cloudflare with our friendly team Björn Rudling, Sebastian Andreose and Sofia Staszkowska.
@coggins - techie, novelist, podcaster and photographer posting gorgeous scene-setting chapter illustrations (with a relevant quote) from his upcoming book
There is nothing new about a #VolcanicEruption in the south-west of #Iceland, on Reykjanes (smoky peninsula). This map (from the Icelandic outlet #Heimildin) shows that there were centuries of repeated #eruptions from about the 8th to the 13th centuries CE.
You can see how the southern part of the capital-region intersects with eruptions from the 10th century. I live in #Reykjavík but it is beneath the box labelled Kópavogur.
I'll give some info on reading the map in a reply.
Une œuvre très célèbre en Islande : l'évêque d'Holar, Gísli Þorláksson, en compagnie de ses trois épouses : Gróa Þorleifsdóttir, Ingibjörg Benediktsdóttir et Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir. Cette dernière, située à gauche de l'évêque, figure sur les billets de 5000 couronnes (environ 35 euros). Elle commanda d'ailleurs cette peinture à un artiste (anonyme) qui a été réalisée à Copenhague en 1685. Elle est actuellement exposée au musée national à Reykjavik.
A little-known and utterly wonderful thing in Reykjavík is the Recycled House, to the north east of the main city centre. It's a home and a public art exhibition of scrap wood and metal transformed into buildings with mythological themes and elements of witchcraft and tribalism. Eerie, but excellent.
I wrote about our chance encounter here on our website:
I've started on the write-ups and photo gathering and video processing from our July 2022 visit to Reykjavík on my website (yes, that's how far behind I am) and want to share this video which epitomises just how much we love Iceland.
Art students (we guess) performing something for the public. You decide what that something is because I've no idea.
Fortunate to be in Reykjavik for New Year’s. We’d heard the are fireworks amazing & they were. Also enjoyed the traditional Áramótaskaupið news comedy special that virtually everyone here watches at 10:30pm on New Year’s Eve. Our taxi driver told us you know it’s on because all the fireworks stop for an hour and — true! Didn’t catch all the references but what we did was very funny (thanks RÚV 2 for having it with English subtitles). Happy New Year to you all. #NYE#reykjavik#iceland