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  • Momo@icelandphotos.co.uk
    May 18, 2026, 7:56 AM

    Golden Crown

    15:30 late afternoon, mid-November in eastern Iceland, and the sun is setting in the south-west.

    Looking north across Berufjörður, the mountains behind us are casting shadows onto the peaks on the opposite side of the fjord. Gradually they have crept up the faces of the mountains, and I have watched, spellbound.

    A bizarre mountain named Stöng has a strange spiked pinnacle. For a perfect moment, only the very tip of it is sunset-lit.

    #MountainsMonday #Iceland #Photography

    A colour photo of a mountain beneath a slightly cloudy sky. The flanks are snowy but ridges of dark rock have been scoured clear of ice by the winds. The shoulders of the mountain are at roughly 25 degrees to the horizontal, and the top is a volcanic plug with upright sides and a jagged top. Low sunlight from behind the viewpoint is being obscured by a range of mountains at the viewer's back, and only this craggy tip is sunlit.
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