Update October 2021:

Three new galleries from an extended walk on Öskjuvegur in the year of 2016:

Askja, uplifting

Askja, Caldera, Ódáðahraun, Öskjuvatn — View towards Askja from Erkesfell.

Alas, again I have no new images from Ódáðahraun this year... Nevertheless, it is time for some news from the heart of Ódáðahraun. An uplift of now (middle of October) almost 150mm is being measured amidst Askja since middle of August. It could be magma accumulation a few kilometres below the surface. For many years there has been deflation in the area, so this is an important change in the volcanos' behaviour. The landrise currently occurs below the areas called Ólafsgígar, Mývetningahraun and below Öskjuvatn. Let's see what happens next.... At least it is a good opportunity to publish some yet unpublished panoramas here.

Daily Vedur.is GPS Measurements around Askja: Link (-> Ólafsgígar OLAC)

https://www.almannavarnir.is/frettir/ovissustig-vegna-landriss-i-oskju/

July 2013: Standing on crevassed Mývetningahraun where it plunges into Öskjuvatn.

Uplift, Askja, Eruption, Earthquake, òlafsgígar, mývetningahraun, myvetningahraun, Iceland — Unbelievable light situation at the southwestern edge of Öskjuvatn. You can see the lavafield Mývetningahraun disappear into the lake on the left hand side. Ólafsgígar are located behind ar the northeastern shore.

Askja, Öskjuvegur, Caldera, Uplift, Landrise, Ólafsgígar, Mývetningahraun, Öskjuvatn, Dyngjufjöll — Askja seen from the Austurfjöll in the wintery summer of 2015.

Of course you are welcome to visit my dedicated ÓDÁÐAHRAUN galleries, though

many photos from recent trips are still missing...

Eckerstausee, 2020

Something for the time being...

Venus (long time exposure / Langzeitbelichtung)

Venus and the Pleiades / Venus im Sternbild der Plejaden

Ódáðahraun, August 2019

In the last years I spent well over 100 days hiking in the lava field of evil deeds. But painful feet of eternal hikes over sharp-edged lava are quickly forgotten in such moments as this distant view to the queen of all mountains. More than 50 km away from my position at the western edge of the Ódáðahraun she towers over the hostile lava shield of Kollóttadyngja. And when a group of Icelandic horses joins in at the right moment: