A glacial torrent pours over a 40-foot-high ledge at Gođafoss, “waterfall of the gods.” After the Icelandic assembly adopted Christianity in 1000, its leader threw his pagan idols into the falls. The mossy island, notes geographer Guđrún Gísladóttir, “is protected from sheep.”
National Geographic’s photo of the month is by Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg, from the May 2012 story “Iceland’s Resilient Beauty.”
Stunning. Makes me want to visit.
I would *love* to explore Iceland. Alas, we'll have to live vicariously through National Geographic until that happens.
This photo is stunning, I mean really amazing!
I love it
Agreed!
Side note, for the my newly discovered photo-geekery: I wonder if the photographer used something like a Hoya ND-8 filter to get the waterfalls to blur like that. Maybe someone else who comes across this might know…