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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes the simple scenes just make me smile :) #abstract #Iceland

Four pebbles on a black sand beach - two blue/greenish and two orangeish - with patterns below them formed by the water running off. Not sure what they look like as a group, but I liked them.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 9h

A few more photos of that lovely coastline in south-east #Iceland in March this year. #AwesomeFoursome

A pointy snow-covered mountain in the distance, with a black sand beach and slightly greenish cliff and waves coming in in the foreground.

That pointy mountain in the distance again with some sea fog illuminated by the sun. In the foreground the black sand beach slopes downwards to the left and some wet icy bits reflect the blue sky. Black rocks dotted around.

B&W view of the beach, wider-angle, with some wispy clouds in the sky and a slight reflection of the pointy mountain in the wet sand.

Same beach and pointy mountain with some rocks dotted around.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A rock on a black sand beach. Got a bit of #pareidolia going on with this one. #Iceland

A rock on a black sand beach with some interesting patterns around it. It looks a little like a face, with an eye, kind of nose, and mouth. Not human, but facelike! There is strong light from the left and it's dark on the right.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Leave only footprints... Soon to be taken away by the tides, my footprints on a rarely-visited black sand beach in south-east #Iceland, March 2026.

A line of footprints on a pristine black sand beach that looks brown in the sunshine. In the distance is a pointy snowy mountain, and there are black rocks and stacks at the end of the beach.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The sand dunes at Stokksnes in south-east #Iceland (where you can see the magnificent Vestrahorn mountain) are stunning - as seen here in four different weather conditions. Always worth looking behind you... #AwesomeFoursome

Black sand dune with dying grasses on top at dawn with the moon above. A touch of frost visible.

A sand dune covered in snow, sculpted by the wind, in the sunshine, in between snow storms.

Sand dunes during a snow storm with snow and sand blowing away from the camera.

Sand dunes in the late afternoon sunshine, with nice ripples.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How amazing is autumn?! Not many leaves this colour yet, but when you see them it's a real treat 🍂 #autumncolours #autumn #Berkhamsted

Autumn oak leaves, backlit, with some ferns and tall pines blurred in the background. The leaves are green at the base and get more red at the tips.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A few more autumnal shots from my trip to the Westfjords of #Iceland in Sept 2019. #AwesomeFoursome

A small river surrounded by hills and landscape covered in red leaves.

A reflection shot of a headland jutting into a fjord, with a layer of fog above the ground - all reflected perfectly below. There is sun on the hillsides in the distance.

A winding road heading off into brown hills. The road can just be seen squiggling off in the distance.

A fast-flowing river surrounded by autumnal grasses with a big brown pointy mountain above and foggy hills in the distance.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An old favourite from a trip to the Westfjords of #Iceland back in Sept 2019.

A few layers of landscape with some sun illuminating autumnal grasses in the middle. The back shows scree slopes which are almost blue.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The weekend starts here! Love the patterns that breaking waves leave behind, whether it's on a beach or in the sea. This is from October 2023. #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #Iceland

Layers of waves meet a river on a black sand beach. The breaking waves make nice patterns in the water.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Crazy green estuary braids along the south coast of #Iceland, seen from the #DJIMavic3Pro drone in Oct 2023.

Green swirly patterns in a river estuary with some slight brown and blue tones in places, and a few white birds just visible on the surface.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love this tree. It looks a little human to me. Lots of them do :) #Trees #Fog #Berkhamsted

An old beech tree on a misty morning - it has all sorts of branches that look a bit like human limbs. Foggy behind and some brown/red ferns below.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More foggy trees from Sunday morning. This morning was so foggy but I just had to enjoy it from the train on the commute to work and wonder about my life choices... #Fog #Berkhamsted

Foggy trees, lots of greenery and draped branches. Mostly tall silver birches.

A broken tree making an upside-down v sign, Lots of trees and greenery around, a touch of autumnal colour and some light fog.

Soft golden light on a tree with lots of branches going in every direction. Some mostly-green ferns below.

A big knobbly beech tree surrounded by greenery and some autumnal colours below, and a bit foggy.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reposting this one for this week’s #ShareMondays2026 competition :)

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some more foggy autumnal trees from this morning. Such lovely conditions :) #Fog #Berkhamsted #AwesomeFoursome

A silver birch in the middle with white trunk, lots of nice yellow leaves, and some fog in sunny light.

Before sunrise a foggy-ish scene with a smattering of yellow leaves and some orange and green ferns.

Backlit woodland scene with a path to the right and some bushes covered in cobwebs.

Lovely pendulous silver birch side-lit by the sun and a bit foggy. Touches of yellow leaves.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dried ferns with some water droplets (and a cobweb behind). #FrithsdenBeeches #Berkhamsted

Dried brown/red ferns with a blurred cobweb behind.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bit spooky out this morning... #October #Berkhamsted

Spooky foggy scene with a tree with a thick trunk on the right and a twisted branch going across the scene. Other trees silhouetted behind in fog. Dead tree and branches and grass at the bottom.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Absolutely magical up at Frithsden Beeches this morning. Autumn is such a beautiful time of year to be in woodlands. #Berko #Fog #TreesinMist

A large pendulous silver birch tree with some yellow leaves and big dead branch visible falling behind. Below are ferns - mostly green but some yellow and red ones. Behind it is foggy and bright.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An abstract image from Binalong Bay in Tasmania, which we visited in March 2023. Wish it wasn't so far away - one of the most amazing places I've visited.

An abstract image - mostly orange - of some rocks under water, with some orange reflections on the surface. The rocks along the east coast are often orange.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Icebergs on Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in south-east #Iceland, from Feb 2018.

Three small turquoise icebergs on a black sand beach with long exposure making the receding waves have nice white stripes on the beach. Above is grey stormy cloud with a touch of pink sunrise light.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three views of one of Iceland's ice caves, taken in November 2020. Not many tourists in the country then so I thought I'd take the opportunity to visit when it wasn't too crowded. Wish I'd had longer! #Iceland #Canon5Dmarkiii

View in an ice cave - literally a chamber under a glacier. Some people can be seen at the end giving it some scale. There's a hole at the end letting in light, and the ceiling is a crazy turquoise sculpture.

A triangular view out of an ice cave with pale brown almost desert-like mountains visible in the distance under blue skies. There's some reflection of the light on the scalloped ice inside.

Looking out of the ice cave where a man is just visible silhouetted against the lighter entrance. Lots of different shades of blue and green and turquoise on the ceiling and walls of the cave, with some snowy bits on the right where a hole in the ice lets the elements in.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for something completely different… Got the oil paints out today for the first time in about a year to paint this lovely orange squash that my husband grew on his allotment (the others were from others on the allotment - always lots of go round). Will now be able to eat them! #oilpainting

An oil painting of three squash - on the left is a round orange one (uchi kuri), on the right is a squat round beige one, and behind is a yellow long and curved one (possibly a franchi courgette).

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you - it was wonderful to see! And a horrible rainy day but this brightened it. I actually painted it three years ago… :)

Painting of two icebergs on a black sand beach - one of very large.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day 12 and a half years ago I saw the coolest ever iceberg. Never seen one like it since. Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón, #Iceland

A six-foot (ish) high turquoise iceberg with a small friend on a black sand beach. Grey rainy day with some of the turquoise reflected in the blank sand, and long exposure smooth waves breaking.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice sunset over the fields on our walk tonight :) #berko

Sunset sky behind grey clouds with some trees silhouetted at the top of a green hill (which was beige a month ago!)

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The weekend starts here! Staying on the turquoise theme, one of my favourite river braids in the south-east of #Iceland.

Turquoise river braids meandering across pale dry sand (which probably is darker grey or black when wet).

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A turquoise iceberg on Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in south-east #Iceland on a very stormy day back in Feb 2022.

A very turquoise iceberg on a beach with long exposure slowing the waves a little. Black sand beach to bottom left and very grey stormy skies above.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the ridiculously cool Stuðlagil (basalt canyon) in east #Iceland, taken on my first ever trip there in July 2020. The water isn't always this colour.

A very turquoise green river comes through a narrow canyon lined with upright basalt columns. Long exposure makes the ugly froth in the middle look nice and smooth.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An old favourite, taken on this day in 2019 up in the Westfjords of #Iceland 🦭🍂

A seal sits on a clump of kelp, looking around at the camera. Beyond are autumnal slopes with a couple of ephemeral waterfalls and some fog above the hills. The colours are reflected in a fjord.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's some more lovely geology from the Snæfellsnes Peninsula from last month in #Iceland. #AwesomeFoursome

Big stack in the background (volcano far in the distance) and some large boulders in the foreground with tafoni (round holes erosion).

Grasses on the edge of a cliff with dandelions and volcanic platform along the coast and stack in distance.

Colourful basalt columns on a beach stack.

Another stack on the beach, with grey (black) sand, and some grassy hills beyond. The stack has lots of grey and red rocks.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time for some more wave photos from my trip to #Iceland last month. Love these rather abstract, hand-held long-exposure waves :)

A huge blue/green/turquoise wave breaking. The water around is grey/green and there is some scrappy white spray.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More exquisite rocks from Djúpalónssandur in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula of #Iceland from last month. #Geology #GeologyRocks #CanonR5markII

More exquisite colourful rocks with black, grey, red, yellow, white, purple, blue...

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The weekend starts here! Time for a waterfall in the Highlands. It's called Sigöldufoss :) #Iceland

A long exposure photo of a waterfall with 10 metre drops and a few different tiers and very turquoise water below. Brown hills and cliffs around and some slightly pink grey clouds above.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Treats are life 😋 Little old Henry is still able to focus on treats in spite of otherwise failing eyesight 🥰 #cockerspaniel #iphone15pro

Very grey old blue roan cocker spaniel waiting on a pavement for a treat, looking up at the camera.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'll never tire of photographing the ever-changing river braids and estuaries in #Iceland with a drone. Just wish it was a bit closer... #DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography

A yellow river at the bottom of the photo meets a black sand beach, with the remains of a wave drifting away to the top of the photo.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How could I ever tire of photographing things like this?! The world is so beautiful :) #Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

A series of river braids with some yellow, orange and turquoise on the right, and some dried up braids to the left that are a little brown and blue. The sand around is orange and brown, and on the far right hand side are some sand dunes with dead grasses.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Time for some turquoise loveliness. Icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in south-east #Iceland, taken with the drone (during allowable hours/season!) last November.

A triangular-shaped iceberg seen from directly above, with a tiny flat one next to it. There is a large shadow that shows two peaks on the iceberg. Surrounded by frozen lake.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Update on focus stacking software! Just tried Helicon, and pretty pleased with the results. Will try a couple of others. This was 12 photos stacked (used the in-camera focus stacking function on the Canon R5 mark ii) and cropped to get a little closer. This is going to be fun to work with!

Closer-up image of an orange muscid fly sitting on top of a mushroom. Photo taken using 12 stacked images to get more in focus.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some #reflections in Portus Ganda (the port area in the east of Ghent/Gent).

An old tyre in a port area and some nice reflections in the water below - blue skies, clouds, and b&w stripes from a boat above.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Homage to Magritte. A crane and some clouds in east Ghent, #Belgium

An old grabber from a crane in the old docklands in east Ghent. Some scattered clouds and blue sky behind.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ghent is so pretty! Love the reflections of these buildings. #iphone15pro #belgium

Pretty triangular Belgian buildings reflected in a canal at night.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A few random #iPhone photos from #Brussels. Have taken about 10 photos on big camera. Maybe more inspiration to be found in Ghent…

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Look at this marvellous seaweed I saw on Djúpalónssandur beach in western #Iceland - like aliens' gloves perhaps!

Some layers of flat seaweed that looks like four-fingered gloves. Under a brown rock. Quite a lot of it. Small pebbles beneath.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Home now, can relax... Here's one of my favourite views in the Highlands of #Iceland, taken two weeks ago.

A moody desert highlands scene with grey clouds, some blue mountains in the distance, a pointy rocky brown mountain in the middle, and some dark sandy landscape in the foreground with some grey rocks and tufts of green grass.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some chaotic and very green/turquoise waves at Reykjanesviti in SW #Iceland, where I'd hoped to see the eclipse, but instead just saw drizzle and waves...