Primordial Earth

This eroding glacier flows from the Mýrdalsökull ice cap. The distant snowy mountains are remnants of a large volcano that erupted 53,000 years ago. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

On the edge of a road in Central Northern Iceland this stone pile was built by travelers, who placed rocks for good luck. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

A new landscape of lakes, scree slopes, hills and large boulders is revealed after a glacier retreats. Glaciers in Iceland—and throughout the Arctic—are vanishing due to a rapidly warming climate. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

This steam plume is found in the highlands of the Torfajökull volcanic system, which contains big, powerful geothermal fields or subsurface reservoirs of the Earth’s heat. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

Northern lights above the Mt. Hekla volcano in Southern Iceland. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

The vivid colors found in the rugged highlands of the Torfajökull volcanic system come from geothermal activity, silica-rich volcanic rocks and alpine vegetation. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

This old farmhouse in southern Iceland reflects the mixture of traditional building styles found on the island. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

By January 2015 the Bárðarbunga volcano, which erupted five months earlier, had produced a lava flow bigger than Manhattan Island, New York. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

Inactive steam vents such as these, as well as active ones, are found throughout the geothermal area of Mt. Námafjall in northeastern Iceland. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

Lake Jökulsárlón shimmers with the reflection of a magnificent iceberg. (Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)