Tag: Nature
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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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Still no sign of spring?
Still no sign of spring? When is this snow finally going to melt so that the world will wake up from its winter sleep? We are dying to graze again in the sun on the green mountain slopes! That’s what these chamois seem to think while staring into the cold white distance. Photo of the week: Chavannes, Villars-sur-Ollon,…
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Dream women
Dream women Had the gap between the trees in this Japanese garden been specially designed to grant me a glimpse of the two lovely young women who were posing so beautifully there?As I drew nearer, I saw that they were clad in kimonos, those magnificent traditional robes that transform the women who wear them into…
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The other
The other Having climbed all the way to the rim of the volcanic crater early in the morning, I look around me. The thin morning mist still hangs like a shimmering veil over the vast sea of sand surrounding me. On my other side, I gaze down into the depths of the crater. Then, on…
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Bromo and Semeru
Bromo and Semeru I walked the slopes of the Etna, filmed on Vulcano, felt the threatening presence of Stromboli in Rossellini’s beautiful film of the same name, but a grand view of so many extinct and still active craters as on the Tengger Massif is unique. This makes the landscape of Mount Bromo, with Semeru…
