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  • Momo@icelandphotos.co.uk
    Aug 14, 2026, 8:50 AM

    Three Sheep

    Fjallabak is a beautiful yet desolate place, a fragile ecosystem shaped by volcanic activity and the flow of water. Disrespect can be fatal.

    Its colour palette is wide, with vivid greens, yellows and reds, mostly due to rhyolite and obsidian. There's even a blue volcano.

    Friðland að Fjallabaki (Fjallabak Nature Reserve) or just Fjallabak, literally "The Back Of The Mountains", in southern Iceland.

    And the eponymous three sheep? Look closely at the photo...

    #Iceland #Photography

    A colour photo of a rugged landscape under an overcast sky. Large patches of last winter's snow are still in the more protected channels and dips even though this shot was taken in August. The surface is green with moss, and tyre marks can be seen running across a flatter area. The hills themselves are heavily eroded by wind and water into bizarre shapes, but the mossy cover is almost total suggesting that the erosion happened long ago. In a lower channel between ridges, a river can be seen snaking past snow drifts. All of it looks otherworldly. Near the bottom centre of the shot, three white sheep are grazing together.
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