Landscape

Taken at sunset in March 2025 in the Salar de Arizaro (Puna, Argentina), this drone image shows an aeolian sedimentary cone emerging from the salt bed. The golden light casts its long shadow on the white plain, highlighting the stratified veins and granular texture of the cone against the salt crusts and cracks in the foreground.

A beam of light illuminates small trees growing on the rock next to the famous Upper Falls in Yellowstone Park. The photo was taken from a vantage point with a telephoto lens.

At the foot of the imposing Háifoss waterfall, the second highest in Iceland with a height of 122 metres. A place where you have to go down and discover all that is hidden there and cannot be seen from the lookouts above, and get as close as you can, as long as the weather conditions allow it in absolute safety, to the great rock where all the water falls, there, withstanding all the onslaughts stoically.

After a cold period in early winter, the lake started to freeze. One day a heavy snow blizzard came in over the lake, and in just in a few minutes, the appearance of the ice patterns changed. I visited the lake nearly every day over a period, and followed the process and the changing expression of the landscape. The transition between autumn and winter is a very fascinating time.

I never cease to be amazed by the aerial view of river deltas in Iceland. The combination of mud and black sand creating shapes and colours that are hard to imagine in a natural landscape.

The patterns of the marsh never cease to amaze me, it's a pity that this landscape goes overlooked from the land. As the sun was still pretty high, I didn't like the colour of the scene, so I took the white balance to the warm end so that the shapes of the water channels would be the focus of attention.

The name Yggdrasill comes from the mythological figure of the tree of life in Norse mythology. In fact, the volcanic eruption creates an upside-down tree, made out of molten rock, whose roots reach into the womb of the earth, developing a mighty trunk that branches out into an intricate crown.