Category: Oceania
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Devil’s Bath
Devil’s Bath Devil’s Home, Devil’s Ink Pots, ….. the mineral deposits at the surface of the collapsed craters and in the hot water of the crater lakes often seem to evoke images associated with the devil. So here we have what is popularly called the Devil’s Bath. Has the little lake got its fluorescent green…
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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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Non-objects
Non-objects My criticism of the large number of mirror works by Anish Kapoor in last week’s post, doesn’t do him justice sufficiently. He has made other, different works that deserve attention. Nevertheless I start here again with a distorting mirror work. Kapoor has named it a Non-Object, a title that fits many of his works…
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Distorting mirrors
Distorting mirrors I remember with delight the fun-fair that once a year pitched its tents in the small Dutch town in which I grew up. One of the attractions sometimes was a tent full of concave and convex mirrors in different sizes and combinations that showed the strangest, distorted reflections when one stood in front…
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