OT: Amazing photos of Eyjafjallajokull

farss wrote on 4/21/2010, 9:01 PM

From boston.com.
Take a moment to scroll down through all of them. A couple of those long exposure shots make anything Hollywood has dreamed up to depict Armageddon look pretty tame.

Bob.

Comments

ushere wrote on 4/21/2010, 9:13 PM

nice one bob....

thanks, passed on to a number of others....

btw. just as well this is a silent board - loved to have heard you pronounce it!

CorTed wrote on 4/21/2010, 9:44 PM

Bob, very nice pictures. Amazing!
thanks for sharing!

Ted

apit34356 wrote on 4/21/2010, 9:52 PM

"btw. just as well this is a silent board - loved to have heard you pronounce it! " hahaha..... ;-) just about everything in Iceland native language is difficult or impossible for the average person to pronounce! ;-) I thought Sweden's language was strange when it comes to descriptions of items or names ..... but at least you can learn to speak it.

xberk wrote on 4/21/2010, 10:44 PM

btw. just as well this is a silent board - loved to have heard you pronounce it! "

Indeed the pictures were spectacular !! .. WOW.

This got me thinking. Apropos of pronouncing Eyjafjallajokull -- We were in Iceland last Sept. My video of the trip includes what we thought might be one of the outlet glaciers for the volcano that is now erupting. But I didn't get a spelling on it at the time. Our guide seems to be saying ay-ya-fyadl-a-yok-udl which is a phonic spelling from someone in Iceland. I know from Google maps that Eyjafjallajokull is very close to where I was shooting that day, near a beautiful waterfall called Seljalandsfoss.

Here's a short section of

What do you think? I've added the title for Eyjafjallajokull to this section as I'm fairly sure it is the ONE.

Iceland Videos in full

Paul