Few places on earth can match the raw and intense beauty of Iceland. Both fiery and cold, forbidding and inviting, it is a place of dramatic contrasts, home to immense ice fields, bubbling mud pools, colossal waterfalls and hot springs.

Although Iceland has a long, rich cultural history, it is the land itself sculpted by the forces of nature into a unique ever-changing landscape that tells the country’s true story.

I travelled to Iceland in search of the elusive aurora borealis. However, the Northern Lights weren’t the only natural phenomenon i came across. From the cobalt-blue ice of the Solheimajokull glacier to the steaming Blue Lagoon.