Myvatn, Iceland - A place is full of geothermal field

We had a car trip on durt road for awhile, thanks Daniel, he is a great photographer, trip organisor, and a safe driver to take us there.  According to Daniel, this place is not marked in guidebook, so see less track of tourist which is great for photography.  However, we still need to avoid getting people in the shot if we don't want to!

Rule #1: Stay together, try not to get into others' shot (it only last for 10 mins)
Rule #2: Stay away from the hot mud pool and soft mud

These are the reminders from Daniel before we left the car.

When I first saw the place, it's full of layer of colour, like grey, red, yellow, green, blue, etc. Not only these, but also has different texture of things like steam, stone, wet mud, dry mud, etc. So in this picture, I would like to show the layer of colour that I really like!

I found the mud pool is very interesting thing, but I do worry about getting burn, so long zoom was needed. When I looked at the bubbles in the pool, and hearing the noise which sounds like boiling hot pot! I started worried about where I was standing. So I kept moving my feet light and slow.

Look at these muddy bubbles...

It looks and sound like the giant pot for witch to prepare poison in fairy story!

I also look for stones and rocks with strange shape and colour, and I found these:

a. it has yellow colour

b. it carries multiple colour which is in different layers

c. the rock in arch-shape with nice blue sky and white cloud as background

When I was hanging around of those thermal pools, they all have interesting pattern around them which formed by wet and dry mud, it picks up colour which depends on the chemicals:

We spent couple hours there and I couldn't resist taking photos, and my arms became very sore and they asked for a break. So we had our picnic there and wait for the sunset!

You know, the light keeps changing when the sun is down! Just before that, somebody spotted the light beams came through the cloud. So I grabbed my camera again!

The reflection of light shown in the little stream which give balance of light in the picture, it's leading the audiance to the sunlight!
 

The steam also picked up the light and gave nice reflection! The whole place became very romantic and moody!

Now the sun began to set! The colour was changing quickly, it gave me a breath taking moment when it came! It was hard to choose the best photo! How about this one?

Still the steam coming out of the ground is the key element in this place with the nice shape of mountain!

Before we left the place, another photographer spotted the moon, it feels so strange to me that sun just set and its light still remains in the sky, the moon is there already!

The moon light ended the day of shotting, it reminds to go to bed! What a wonderful day!