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Dallol is a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) in the Danakil Depression or Afar depression in the Afar region in the north-east Ethiopia. The place around this crater is also called Dallol depression and it’s one of the lowest places of the earth, reaching the 48 meters below sea level. Near there are the salt mines 122 meters below sea level and the lake Asale which reaches the155 meters below sea level.
Dallol crater was formed during a phreatic eruption in 1926, and numerous other similar craters dot the salt flats nearby.
The term Dallol was coined by the Afar people and means dissolution or disintegration describing a landscape made up of green acid ponds (pH-values less than 1) iron oxide, sulfur and salt desert plains. The area resembles the hot springs areas of Yellowstone Park but appears to be more wide-stretching (I’ve never been there – it’s what wikipedia says…).
Dallol and Danakil desert are of the hottest places year-round anywhere on Earth (comparable with the Dasht-e Lut desert in Iran).
Temperatures reached up to an all-time high of 64.4°C (148.0°F) in the 1930's.
The climate varies from around 25 °C (77 °F) during the rainy season (September–March) to 48 °C (118 °F) during the dry season (March–September). Only the Awash River flows into the depression, where it ends in a chain of lakes that increase in salinity.
There are no roads. Dallol is also one of the most remote places on Earth.
The only regular transport service is provided by camel caravans which travel to the area to collect salt or by 4x4 in the salt plains…
The Afar Depression (also called the Danakil Depression or the Afar Triangle) is a geological depression near the Horn of Africa (in the Great Rift Valley which is a continuous geological trench of approximately 6,000 kilometres that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in south-east Africa ).The Afar Depression overlaps Eritrea, the Afar Region of Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Afar is also very well known as one of the cradles of hominids, containing the Middle Awash, site of many fossil hominid discoveries; Gona, site of the world's oldest stone tools; and Hadar, site of Lucy, the fossilized specimen discovered in 1974 (nearly 40% complete skeleton) of Australopithecus afarensis (afarensis = AFARensis).
Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago. The discovery of this hominid in 1974 was significant as the skeleton shows evidence of small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk akin to that of humans, providing further evidence that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size in human evolution. In 1994, a new hominid, Ardi was found, in Afar region again, pushing back the earliest known hominid date to 4.4 million years ago !! Details of this discovery were finally published in October 2009…
A disintegrating seed pod discovered on a hike in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, enhanced with Topaz with some background texture from an ornamental grass image.
Alternate Title: This House is for the Birds!
If you have ever seen Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds,’ you may be curious as to the location of the training facility for the crows used in the film. Yep! It was this house. You can see there is an outdoor facility for Purple Martins. This helped to attract the crows, as did all the vegetation which fooled them into thinking it was a big tree.
The crows were trained inside the house until they could be trusted not to fly away. Little balls of white Wonder Bread were used as treats. The crows loved them and the wet ball of heavy dough in their stomachs slowed them down.
There were many mishaps during the training of the crows. Several of the trainers got broken bones from slipping on crow poop. There were quite a few eggs laid as well. No crows were hurt in the training process, however.
After the crows were shipped to the movie set, this facility had to be closed. Apparently, the foot of crow poop on the floor could never be totally scraped off. Also, neighbors complained that, even over 50 years later, there was a considerable stench coming from the house.
Things are changing in Lakeland. Barns needing roof repairs, intake walls disintegrating, field walls slowly disappearing, tree growth going unchecked and forests springing up over night.
The accepted wisdom seams to be that sheep create an unnatural desert and that diversity is the name of the game, let streams flow naturally and encourage the natural tree coverage to progress. The beloved "natural" landscape of the Lake District that found favour a generation ago is now anathema.
A bifurcated iceberg off the south coast of Devon Island looks like it will soon split into two. An iceberg this size likely came from the large glaciers originating in the Greenland icesheet and transported north in the West Greenland current. Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Northwest Passage.
25/11/2023 www.allenfotowild.com
Hastening Ones Disintegration.
Roches visqueuses rives grises étrange planète vieux vents hurlants secrets montagnes hautes phosphorescentes rêves crépusculaires de grandes profondeurs,
bolți târâtoare căi distruse monștri demoni broaște broaște bântuind ape care se prăbușesc orizont tăcut vâsuri mări agitate lunile necunoscute înainte,
golygfeydd disglair baglu niwloedd dolydd ar oleddf bydoedd pell copaon hynod ddiddorol crisialau blodeuog cestyll bryniau troi goleuadau goleuadau sy'n lleihau,
ಸುತ್ತುವರಿದ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು ಅಶುಭ ಸಂಪನ್ಮೂಲಗಳು ಭಯಭೀತರಾದ ಸಮಯಗಳು ವಿವೇಚನೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳು ದಂತ ಶಕ್ತಿಗಳ ರೇವಿಂಗ್ಗಳು ಹುಚ್ಚು ಕುತೂಹಲಕಾರಿ ವಿನಂತಿಗಳು ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಗಳು,
絡み合いヘビ警告詩人強烈な波が手足をつかむより深く忘れられた時間がちりばめられた説明不可解な喜び床をコニングする狂人を威嚇する機械の圧力圧力機械の.
Steve.D.Hammond.
These slowly disintegrating old wagons sat on the hill at the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool (Vic), Australia
HFF!
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Week 28:52 Water Drop Photography July 8th-14
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Double exposure using overlays.
Spider web and raindrops on a windshield.
"I write to pour myself out to you and to affirm myself to myself. I am the prey of great powers that surge forth and then disintegrate... A bourgeois told me today - insulted me - that I or at least my brain was lazy. It did me good. I should like such a warning every morning upon awakening: but they cannot understand us nor can they understand life..."
Amedeo Modigliani
an excerpt from the letter of Modigliani to his friend Oscar Ghiglia
Left alone to disintegrate on a windblown, misty beach in Peloponnese, the shipwreck of Dimitrios proved to be every bit as enchanting as in my dreams. Haunting and haunted, broken but not yet dead, it still stands upright, a ghostly mirage condemned to travel forever through misty mornings, fiery sunsets and sunrises, through rain and thunderstorms, gloomy skies and starry nights, through time but never through space, never leaving the place that's been eating it away for almost 30 years now.
December 2009
(Thanks for the title, Haluk)
I came across two sheets of plywood which had been washed up by the tide, as I walked along the strand line on Saturday. They looked as though they might have been hatch covers, maybe. They were beginning to disintegrate and had rusty nails dotted around and bits of lichens growing on them here and there. There were some great textures and colours. These are a few macro shots I took of details.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest
In chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound.
You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within;
You stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak;
~ Edmund Spenser
Laomei Green Algal Reef - 老梅
Shihmen, Taipei County - Taiwan
Sky color made with Cokin Tobacco Filter.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about the cross. I think it carries more weight as a symbol than any other. It signifies sacrifice, the door, the path to God....truth, love, peace, eternal life. More than at any other time in 2000 years, it is rebuked and rebuffed. Yet all around us we see events described in sacred books and by esteemed prophets. Now is the time to return to the cross and seek the Creator. " For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
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