Iceland Ring Road Photo Tour

Our Iceland Ring Road Photo Tour, it’s the dream travel for all landscape photographers. During these days you will have the opportunity to photograph these arctic landscapes. We will make a road trip around Iceland Ring Road during Autumn in the peak of the Northern Light season.

Therefore we will visit the most photographed locations in Iceland as the waterfalls of Seljalandsfoss, Kirkjufellsfoss or Aldeyjarfoss, and the landscapes of Diamond Beach, Stokksnes, Hvítserkur or Vik as an example. Also, we will be looking to photograph Northern lights in these amazing landscapes all the nights. Definitely, a tour prepared to enjoy one of the most amazing landscapes of the world with experienced guides in the area.

A photography workshop open to all kinds of levels. All photography fans are welcome to capture the Northern Lights, as we will be teaching you during the trip to capture this incredible phenomenon. Also in our break moments, we will be doing some post-processing lessons. And before the trip, we will suggest you the necessary photography equipment to come back home with the best photos of Iceland.

If you want to photograph the northern lights in the Golden Ring, we have prepared an extension of this trip. Write us for more info when you book your place!

You can also check any other Iceland photography tours, so you can choose your favorite moment to visit Iceland.

We will meet at Keflavik airport, where we will start out Iceland Photo Tour Northern Lights. From here, we will drive to the Snæfellsnes peninsula where we will sleep for the first two nights. According to the schedule of arriving of all participants, we will photograph the sunset in Kirkjufellsfoss, one of the most iconic locations of our trip.

During the night, if the weather its good, we will be waiting for the northern lights in this location.

We will awake early to photograph the sunrise from the same location as yesterday, Kirkjufellsfoss. From here we will move to Gatklettur, during our route we will stop in different spots as the black church of Búðakirkja. Once in Gatklettur, we will photograph the sunset from these cliffs. We will sleep again in our hotel at Grundarfjörður, where during the night we will wait for the northern lights in these arctic landscapes.

After breakfast, we will leave our hotel for the first two nights, on our way to the north. During our route, we will stop to photograph the landscapes of Iceland as the Kolugljúfur Canyon that will close to our hotel for this night.

For sunset, we will arrive at Hvitserkur. According to the forecast, we will wait for northern lights this night in our accommodation close to the Rhino.

We will go for sunrise season again to Hvitserkur, where will be photographing the landscape with the first lights of the day. From there we will drive to the East making a stop in Reykjafoss.

We will arrive at our hotel for this night, and approach Aldeyjarfoss. Once there, we will do our sunset session and we will be looking for northern lights during the night. If we are lucky to capture early in the night, we also can go to the nearest Goðafoss to capture the northern lights at this location.

We will awake early as usual to capture the sunrise from Goðafoss. Once we finish our session we will move to the eastern side of Iceland. 

For sunset, we will come to Stuðlagil Canyon. And of course, we will be waiting there for the northern lights in the night before come to our hotel.

Today we will pass the day in the incredible landscapes of the eastern side of Iceland to arrive finally to the south of Iceland: Vestrahorn. In our route to Höfn, we will do some stops to capture some waterfalls like Folaldafoss before arriving at our hotel at the entrance of Stockness.

For sunset, we will be exploring the area of Stokksnes with the characteristic black sand beach. Here we will be photographing the magnificent Vestrahorn and the sand dunes till dinner. We will make the most of our time, so at night we will do some night photography looking for northern lights again in this location.

We will awake for a sunrise session in Vestrahorn before moving to Jökulsárlón Glacier for sunset. At Diamond beach, we will be enjoying the last lights of the day, but during the day we will be exploring the landscapes of the Glacier.

We will have dinner close to this area, and if the prediction of Northern lights is positive, we will wait for it before arriving to our hotel.

We will stop again in Diamond Beach for a sunrise photo session. Once the light is up we will continue our tour back to the West and stop in Vik. According to the sea tides, we will visit the Reynisfjara Beach at sunset or the Dyrhólaey peninsula with his iconic lighthouse and views to the arch and the black beach.

During the night, we will wait for the northern lights in these incredible locations. Also, if the night is successful we can explore the possibility to approach to Skógafoss waterfall to capture there the northern lights. So we can spend the night photographing the auroras in different locations.

We will come to Skógafoss before continue our route to Reykjavik. During the day we will be photographing another iconic location as Seljalandsfoss waterfall for a sunset session. At night we will come to our hotel in Reykjavik where we will have a rest.

Drive to Keflavík airport where we will tell goodbye to this Iceland Photo Tour Northern Lights and the beautiful arctic landscapes of the island.