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Splashy colours
Splashy colours The overflow of the Frying Pan Lake (see last week’s post) forms a hot water creek that finds several small hot springs in its path. The water contains a variety of minerals like antimony, molybdenum, arsenic and tungsten. These minerals leave deposits, thus creating – together with the bright green algae – pictures…
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Fuming craters, mountains, lakes
Fuming craters, mountains, lakes Although the Earth most probably isn’t the only planet in the universe on which life has been able to develop – life of which we humans form a part – , it is and remains a miraculous little globe. When we then observe on this same Earth volcanic phenomena from close…
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Smoke clouds
Smoke clouds For many thousands of years volcanoes have on and off erupted in the Taupo Volcanic Zone on New Zealand’s North Island. The eruption that created the Taupo crater lake in its present form happened some 26,500 years ago and is said to have been the largest volcanic eruption on earth in the last 70,000…
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Steam clouds
Steam clouds Steam clouds blowing about in the wind, briefly hiding the trees from view, then hastening further, fading away. With this image I like to start a series of photos which I have in store for you the coming weeks about the marvellous phenomena of volcanic activity in the center of New Zealand’s North…
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Colour resonance
Colour resonance In last week’s picture we had a nice example of ‘colour resonance’ and here we have another one, again in Kyoto. Was the first one at Kinkaku-ji, this time it’s in Ginkaku-ji. Even more than last week I suspect the lady here of having dressed in this blouse on purpose, so well it matches…
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What shall I wear today?
What shall I wear today? “This, or perhaps that? No, let’s wear this white blouse today, with that yellow jumper over the top.” This is what the girl might have been thinking that morning, standing in front of her open wardrobe, before she got dressed and left the house. And there she stands, her beautiful,…
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Shades of green in a light drizzle
Shades of green in a light drizzle I could almost say the same thing here as I did about the photo in last week’s post, except that we’ve left Arashiyama and are now in Kinkaku-ji Park, in a different part of Kyoto. Moreover, as you can see, there is now a light drizzle in the…
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Shades of green and yellow
Shades of green and yellow When gazing upon such a beautiful natural scene, a painter might feel the urge to pick up his brushes, a poet to carefully weigh up the words that spring to mind, whilst I … I take the photograph you are now looking at. We are in Arashiyama, the district on…
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Inner worlds
Inner worlds Aesthetically this may not be such a great picture, but it has something beautiful about it that pleases me. Four girls on a lawn dotted with little flowers by the waterfront, and each of them totally absorbed by her own playful discovery of the world. Although they probably have descended here together, each…
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Girlhood in India
Girlhood in India This photograph – the girl in it – moves me deeply. With her still-young, prematurely aged face, marked by the hardships of a life lived in poverty, she is heart-rendingly beautiful. I admire her, feel sorry for her, and would love to stroke her head and hold her close. She looks at…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 