Tag: Nature
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Flatland
Flatland Maybe it’s thanks to my Dutch origins that I still remember with delight the little book Flatland, in which Edwin Abbott gives full rein to his mathematical imagination in his description of a two-dimensional world. Although the Dutch landscape – especially its immense, flat polders reclaimed from the sea – does come rather close…
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Cheers!
Cheers! This large steaming lake probably owes its name of Champagne Pool to the bubbles caused by the escape of carbon dioxide at the surface. The water is hot, about 75° C., and contains many minerals like gold, silver, mercury, sulphur, arsenic, thallium, and antimony. Their deposits on the sides of the lake, just under…
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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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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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