Newly-washed up icebergs at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

Newly-washed up icebergs at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

Icebergs in Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

Icebergs in Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

Icebergs in Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

Icebergs in Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

A newly-washed up iceberg at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

A newly-washed up iceberg at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon, and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean.

I spent yesterday afternoon and early this morning watching icebergs flow out of Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) near Vatnajokull, Iceland. The glacier calves into a lagoon (you can hear the crack way out in the distance), and at each outgoing tide, icebergs flow out into the ocean and are pushed onto the black-sand beach by waves. We are in the so-called “shoulder season” here in Iceland, which means that it is not yet overrun with tourists. There were about a dozen people at the beach yesterday, but this morning, it was completely empty. I saw one other couple for a few minutes, and spent the next two hours alone watching ice and ocean do its thing.

Aerial pictures shot with DJI Phantom 2 w/Ricoh GR camera. Land shots taken with Sony A7R, Voigtlander 21mm/1.8 Ultron lens, B+W 10-stop ND filter, and Really Right Stuff tripod and plate.