Having seen (and danced beneath) the aurora for the very first time the previous night, I awoke very early with great excitement and realised that the day was dawning colourfully.
Dressed warmly and with camera in hand, I was outside at 6am, and so glad that I was.
This is Fláajökull, the "Sloping glacier," at 7am on a September morning. Hornafjörður in south-eastern #Iceland.
Jaw-dropping ... an Alaskan brown bear reaches for a salmon in a river in the Katmai National Park and Preserve. We often see photos of these bears fishing, but they also eat berries, grasses, sedges, cow parsnip, ground squirrels, carrion and roots.
Photograph: Taylor Thomas Albright/Mediadrumimages