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Laguna Colorada - Bolivia. The clolours in the water and mountains in the Eduardo Avaroas National Park are mainly caused by different minerals and algae in the water.
Reworked from a previous image.
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Crystal Geyser erupts an average of once per day without any schedule, so seeing it erupt is pure luck. When I visited two people had camped there for 15 hours and hadn't seen anything.
My intent was not the eruption (that would have been a bonus) but more the landscape and the mineral landscape that has formed around the site.
No son muchos los datos que se poseen de esta antigua fundición, ubicada en el paraje de Piedrallana, al norte de Villaricos, muy cercana a otra fábrica: la Invencible. Se cree que fue construida sobre 1870, cesando su actividad nada más comenzar el siglo XX, al disminuir notablemente la producción de las minas de Sierra Almagrera.
Hacia 1883, Santa Ana fue adquirida por José Soler Gómez, conocido exportador de minerales de plomo de la zona, lo que para algún autor significa que la fundición mantuvo un ritmo de producción continuo, sin grandes altibajos, habiéndose estimado en unas 30 toneladas diarias el mineral que era llevado para su tratamiento a la fábrica, llegándose a consumir anualmente 3600 toneladas de coque y hulla llegados en buques desde Inglaterra....
The Cordillera de la Sal was formed millions of years ago. It was an ancient lake, whose bottom was raised by the same movements of the earth's coast that gave rise to the Andes Mountains. Molded over time by the rain, wind and sun of the Atacama Desert, its final form as we know it today has a great variety of natural sculptures, different types of stratifications and colorations varied by the mineral diversity of the place.
ƒ/4.5 24 mm 1/800s ISO 320
Lens: TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L (click to see all my photos with this lens)
Altitude 2850m - Morning light 7:13
Tara Salt Flat is located at an altitude of 4 300 m within Los Flamencos National Reserve, near the border point where Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina meet. Tara is set on the crater of Vilama Volcano and it has a rich ecosystem that houses several flora and fauna species.
Unfortunately, going back through my photo archives, I can't recall where I took this, or what the rock is / minerals are. Any geologists out there who can help me identify this? Thanks. Whatever it is, I find it to be astoundingly beautiful and wondrous. (Hence my wondering....) ;-)
Another shot from the Fairy Pools last Autumn up on the Isle of Skye.
I am sort of mesmerised by the backcloth of this shot. I have always been captivated by Mountains and spent a lot of time amongst them. My most abiding past memory is standing on the summit of Mt Blanc at 6.50am watching the sun come up over France and Italy and lingering there taking it all in!
The Black Cuillin pose a special challenge with their rugged precipices and the rapidly changing climate being on the extreme Western edge of Scotland and open to the Atlantic winds. The brooding craggy pyramid of Sgurr an Fheadain sits directly behind this cascade and the clouds shroud the surrounding crags. I keep returning to these shots, partly because of lockdown and partly because this was a gorgeous day to be out photographing waterfalls in such a wonderful landscape. Can't wait to get back at some point!
The mineral green geothermally heated waters of the Roman Bath reflect the 18th century buildings & sky above. Located in Bath, UK, these hot springs contain 42 minerals including sodium, calcium, chloride, sulphate, bicarbonate, magnesium, silicon, & iron. From ancient times they were considered to be healing & many pilgrims came to make use of them.
Photographed at Mineral Ridge
Date: 23rd November 2016
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This is a shot of a Sleepy Orange sulphur butterfly mineralling. If you look closely you can see the proboscis leading into the ground. Although no one really knows for sure it seems that the butterfly is drawing up minerals from damp ground that has a lot of salt in it. This shot was taken in an area that has a lot of runners and horses, all of which produce a lot of salt through perspiration and such. This behavior is also known as "puddling". Only certain species are known to do this, and it's just the young males of the species. I've included a shot of some different sulphurs puddling.
Bonneville Salt Flats near Salt lake city in Utah. It had rained and there was water instead of salt. But still it looked more mineral than anything I have seen
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Date: 24th November 2016
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