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Love In This Week’s #GVPics Competition
Love is all around in this week’s Instagram competition! It’s never an easy job but we try our best to pick out ten pictures as our runners-up and then of course, a #GVPics winner. This week we chose a very affectionate winner…
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This Weeks #GVPics Champion!
Cats, birds, whales and more animals were beautifully captured in action in this week’s Instagram competition! Although I know I’ve said it before, picking only ten pictures out of all the beautiful, clever and amusing #gvpics photographs, is SO HARD. Check out…
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This Week’s #GVpics: Spelunking, Scuba And Street Art
It’s that time of the week, when we have the difficult job of curating the best photos that come through the #GVpics hashtag. Y’all are so talented that it’s always hard to pick just ten, but here are our selections for this…
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This Week’s #GVpics Winner!
Come one, come all! Here we have an entirely new set of glorious Instagram photos for your viewing pleasure (don’t say we never gave you nothing). Remember to continue diligently tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming…
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#GVPICS: This Week’s Winner
The #GVPics Instagram competition becomes brighter each day with sunny landscapes and locals dressed in fewer clothes. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming the winner of…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Competition
Beautiful landscapes, cats and street art is what stood out in this week’s Instagram competition. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming the winner of next week’s…
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#GVPics Is Here: This Week’s Winner
Today is the second day of Whitsun in Iceland. Icelanders are sleeping in on this on-workday and the city is quiet. Instagram, however, isn’t. Check out the winner and runners-up of this week’s #GVPICS contest! Remember to keep tagging your photographs with…
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The Accidental Painter
The renowned Icelandic artist Þorgrímur Einarsson has a growing fan base on social media, and in the art world: he’s about to be featured in the modern art magazine American Art Collector, and he’s been invited to exhibit his work abroad, including…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics!
So many amazing entries in this week’s Instagram competition making choosing only one extremely difficult. Thank god we have runners-up! Remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming the winner of next week’s competition! The…
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Iceland On Instagram: The Winner Of #GVPics
Another week, another Instagram competition! Except this week, we have an amazing prize. Two tickets to the Improv Iceland show, May 10th. You do not want to miss this. We recommend looking through all of the photographs under the hashtag #GVpics to…
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#GVPics Contest: Iceland’s First Days Of Summer
Looking out the window and seeing folks enjoying the sun in April is a rare sight. The sun that is, not the happy folks. It is approximately 11°C outside right now meaning no oversized furry coats anymore, just your most fashionable shades.…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Competition
This week’s competition was amazing with so many beautiful photographs made choosing only ten extremely difficult. It’s amazing to see everybody’s interpretation of Icelandic nature and daily life. Remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance of…
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And The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Contest Is
Another week has passed which means more travel, more photo opportunities and a lot more sun! Now is the time to put up your sixties styled shades, dab some sunscreen on your nose, hike a mountain, see a play or fall in…
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The Winner & Runners-up Of This Week’s #GVPics
The sky is clear, the sun is shining and our readers have captured the country in its most beautiful attire, spring! It’s always a pure joy looking over the entries in our #GVpics competition and the stunning photos of this week really…
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The Icelandic “Spring” On Instagram: Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics
Spring is upon us, or so we thought. The country’s flowers had just started to bloom when the snow came and covered all of it. Winter’s back, and as beautiful as it may be, we hope it won’t stay for too long.…
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Iceland On Instagram: This Week’s #GVpics Champion
We’ve had a steady stream of Instagram photographs marked #GVpics that continually amaze us, and this week was no exception. We are really glad to see that readers are enjoying the longer and brighter days, and of course, capturing the moments and…
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The Best Photos From This Week’s #GVPICS
Each week we pick ten photographs from our #gvpics Instagram competition we find interesting, funny, or beautiful. This week’s entries were amazing and picking only ten pictures was a headache. Remember to tag your picture with #gvpics for a chance of becoming…
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Icelandair Instagram Post Raises Concerns
A seemingly innocent Instagram post taken at Reynisfjara has drawn critical commentary. An Icelandair spokesperson assured reporters the airline makes tourism safety paramount. The post in question, shown above, depicts a couple standing very close to the water at Reynisfjara beach. The…
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Photos Of The Week: #GVpics Instagram Contest
Dear Instagrammers, photographers and readers. Thank you for all of your wonderful submissions in our #GVpics Instagram contest. It is always such a joy scrolling through the wonderful photographs of buildings, animals, venues and trips around the country. The pictures for this…
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The Best Of Iceland On Instagram: This Week’s #GVpics
What a week! We experienced some stormy weather, northern lights, and Icelandic daily life in the freezing cold—all of which is perfectly portrayed in the stunning submissions our dear readers and Instagram enthusiasts submitted (via the #GVpics hashtag). Landscapes dominated the entries…
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#GVpics – This Weeks Winner Of The Instagram Contest
We were so excited going through all of the beautiful, weird and amazing pictures posted under the hashtag #GVpics this week. Instagram really has proven that you don’t need a fancy camera to make good art, just a high-megapixel smartphone camera, and…
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#GVpics Instagram Contest Is Back!
We’re kick-starting this year with a weekly Instagram competition. The rules are simple: bring out your smartphones and photograph whatever you find interesting in Iceland. Whether it’s cats, people, food, street art, extraordinary landscapes or obnoxious selfies, surprise us! Just make sure…
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Police Save Kittens Found In Dumpster
Suðurnes Police have saved a litter of kittens abandoned in a local dumpster. In all there were three kittens who are believed to have been a few hours old when they were found. Sadly one of the kittens has since passed away.…