Landscape Pictures
A break from the recent Icelandic snow pictures… This was taken during our visit to the Gower Peninsula in Wales in late February. I was just about to take a snapshot of CY using the Worm’s Head landmark at Rhossili Bay when these two ladies and their dog decided to seat themselves right in front of us! I have no regrets about that though, for less than a minute after, I was rewarded with this humourous candid scene 😛
Despite its name, Iceland is supposed to have surprisingly mild winters for a country at that latitude due to the effects of the Atlantic Gulf Stream. This was not the case for us as we arrived in what was described by our guides as the winter with the heaviest snowfall in the past 14 years! Still, the snow made the desolate landscape look even more alien and out-of-this-world, giving me the opportunity to capture some unusual and dramatic landscape pictures. The island is the most volcanically-active place in the world, sitting right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge straddling the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. There is a delicate balance between the Arctic cold and the built-up geothermal heat beneath the land. With global warming, there is a growing concern that this balance can be disrupted, leading to more violent volcanic explosions like the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010 which severely disrupted European air-travel.
From Rhosilli Bay on the Gower Peninsula… I am not sure if the composition works for you, but to me, it was an extreme exercise of simplification! 😛 The Chinese title literally translates as “When three people walk together, there is bound to be someone who can teach me” or simply put, “There is always someone I can learn from”.