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ð Charco de Los Clicos, El Golfo, Lanzarote

 

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Here's the first photo from my two weeks spent in Lanzarote this month... taken on my very last evening! I stayed at my Auntie & Uncle's Villa, which I'd recommend to anybody! - Villa Rhodantha, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

 

I had visited Charco de Los Clicos (AKA Charco Verde) near El Golfo several days before, but decided to schedule a return visit when high tide coincided with sunset, so that I could get the waves lapping the shore in the same shot as the island's famous green lake. My last day of the holiday was the closest I'd get at two hours apart. Still, I needed to create a panorama to get everything in.

 

I also wanted to shoot a long exposure, as I haven't seen one done from this iconic honeypot location. It would be my way of making something a little different. I didn't really know if it would work - with the clouds moving between the 30 second exposures, but I gave it a go! (The sky did in-fact need a little tidying in post).

 

Shooting 30 second exposures wasn't at all easy. Lanzarote is renowned as a wind island. And the evening of this shoot was no different with a strong onshore wind buffeting my camera. To give my exposures the best chance, I hung my camera bag from my lightweight travel tripod to steady it, and used my body as a windbreak. Thankfully it worked!

 

Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 28mm | Æ/9 | 30 sec | ISO 200 | Tripod | 3 stop soft grad & 10 stop ND filters | stitched panorama from 7 exposures | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at El Goflo, Lanzarote on 16-09-2022

 

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This was taken from the otherside of the boat just after the sun had come up. It was a bit of a scramble across the wet rocks to get this close.

 

Timanfaya, mountains of fire. One of the worlds truely outstanding natural landscapes. Situated in Parque Nacional de Timanfaya. This is a natural park in which no endangered species of plant or animal are protected, it's a mineral museum in full activity: volcanic cones, craters, seas of lava,ash tongues of liquid magma that spewed from the bowels of the earth to solidify and sculpt natural monuments that defy the imagination, surfaces burnt by fire and temperatures that in certain places reach 400 C just a couple of metres below the ground. More than 177 different plant species cling to life and reproduce within the park. Animal life is also to be found in the form of birds reptiles and insects. The eruptions of the 17th and18th centuries transformed the most fertile regions of Lanzarote into a desert of death and desolation burying in their fury entire villages and outlying Hamlets and devastating the population and their crops.

The park is only accessable by coach and it is through a coach window this image was taken.

A cliff lined coast with enormous boulders tumbling into the sea in a cascade of tangled shapes and deep clefts into which the ocean roars with each surge of waves. It is this constant roar and surge that gives the place the name of los hervideros- the boiling pots.

The Temple Hall was built in 1954 for Lambert bros, London and was sold in 1969 to Demetrios P Margaronis, it was then renamed Pantelis and transferred to the Greek flag, it was then sold again to Cia Nav Para Viajes in Panama but retained the greek flag.

In 1977 the ship was once again sold to Telamon Maritime Co in Panama and renamed Telamon.

On October 31st 1981 the Telamon beached off Arrecife harbour, Lanzarote bound for San Pedro Ivory coast. The boat was declared a constructive total loss and was abandoned. This is where it stands today slowly rotting away.

Vines are protected from the strong winds which blow in the Canaries with these curved walls. The walls are known as Zocos & are usually made out of natural lava stone...Timfanya National Park, Lanzarote 15/12/15

cactus saguaro, Fondation César Manrique

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