Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove | Photographer in Iceland

One year ago today, the ground opened at Sundhnúkagígar for what turned out to be the last time… at least so far. I remember that early morning really well. I had just woken up to leave the country for a week's holiday, discovering a new eruption had begun unexpectedly about 5 minutes before. On the way to the airport, I drove past a fissure that wasn't even half an hour old and I treated it like… well, like another morning in Iceland😅 A week later I came home and it was still going. In the days that followed, I dedicated most of my time to capturing as many images as I could and I was fortunate enough to capture some of my favourite photographs I've ever taken: the steam clouds drifting and folding around the erupting crater. We are now almost a full year of quiet since then and I still can't quite believe it. After watching this peninsula go up again and again, a year of not seeing any lava at all feels like the strange part, not the seemingly endless series of eruptions themselves. Who knows what will happen next there! 🌋

#iceland #volcano #lava #drone #eruption

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