Plane Wreck on the black beach at Sólheimasandur, Iceland

This is my favourite shot of the (in)famous Icelandic plane wreck. The plane is an abandoned US Navy DC plane which crash landed back in 1973 on the black beach at Sólheimasandur. It was one of the cooler places we visited in Iceland. The walk to the wreckage is around 45 minutes to an hour. Make sure you have a few hours to visit the plane wreck. The scenery that greats you on this walk is the barren black land that seems to span to infinity. In the far distance to the side you can see some mountains. When we were there, there were plenty of tourist climbing and posing on top of the wreckage.

Given how many photographs there are online of the plane wreck, it was challenging to make unique photos. However I’m pretty happy with how this series turned out. These were all taken with the Fujifilm X-T2 and 18-55mm f2.8-4 lens.