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One of the handful of fumeroles at the Hverir/Hverarönd Geothermal Area, Námaskarð, North East Iceland.
Hverarönd lies just south of the monster Krafla volcano and north of Lake Mývatn, the whole zone sitting on the mid-Atlantic Ridge. The mud pools and vents are easily accessible from the highway.
This is a reimagining of the black and white version I posted back in 2015 that totally sucked.
Fuji X-T1, XF 14/2.8, 1/550th sec at f/8, ISO 200
The mud pool simmering in high temperature and we are warned not to go down there as it is dangerous due to the earth is too fragile it might crack opened. Who care we still went down there as it is once in a lifetime....
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Brennisteinshverir á Þeistareykjum.
Hgh-temperature geothermal area in northern Iceland, with boiling mud pools and colorful solfataras.
An updated version of an image taken back in July 2015 using Silver Efex Pro 2 for the B&W conversion and processing.
The geothermal area Krýsuvík is situated on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland. It is in the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland. Where solfataras, fumaroles, mud pots and hot springs have formed, the soil is coloured in bright yellow, red, and green hues. Sulphur deposits were mined in 1722 - 1728 and in the 19th century.
In this photo and visible despite the steam, a ~3 m column of water splashes up from the erupting spring at Gunnuhver, Iceland. The erupting spring pictured is part of a group of steam vents (fumaroles), mud pools (mud pots) and springs that are collectively called Gunnuhver. These springs lie in a larger Reykjanes geothermal area that is often also called Gunnuhver. This highly active geothermal area located on southwest side of the Reykjanes Peninsula, west of Grindavík, Iceland gets the name Gunnuhver from the angry and vengeful female ghost, Guðrún. In Icelandic folklore, a priest trapped Guðrún’s spirit in these hot springs over 400 years ago. This dynamic, high temperature geothermal area changes often with hydrothermal features coming and going over its recorded history. Reykjanes is unstable due to earthquakes, which occur in swarms. Most are rather small with the largest measured just over magnitude 5. Some have caused a minor slip on a fissure that passes through Gunnuhver and Kísilhóll, the sinter mound that lies just to the southwest. The last earthquake occurred about 40 years ago. Such ground movements revive the steam field intermittently and allow the deep reservoir water to escape to the surface creating short-lived geysers and thermal springs. Historically, several intermittent geysers have observed here.
The development of the Geothermal power plant here in 2006 effected the hydrothermal features. Steaming of the ground at Reykjanes increased markedly as a consequence of pressure drawdown in the geothermal reservoir after exploitation. Some boreholes drilled during development became steam vents or mud pools.
Gunnuhver (the mud spring), shown erupting in the photo, measures 20 m (66 ft) across and can erupt to 10 m in height. The feature was born in 2007 while the power plant was under development. In 2014 powerful eruptions destroyed a viewing platform in the front of where the current observation platform sits. Ruins of the previou
Hverir Iceland is a surreal geothermal area at the foot of the Namafjall volcanic mountain. fumaroles, large mud pools, steam vents and a bare orangy-red landscapes close to Lake Myvatn in the North of Iceland.
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Iceland's Namafjall Hverir Geothermal Area is one of the most out-of-this-world sites in the country. It's a place where you are directly connected to the power of the planet. Located at the foot of the Namafjall volcanic mountain, the Namafjall Hverir geothermal area has large mud pools, steam vents, a bare orangy-red landscape and fumaroles, oh, and yes, clouds of sulphur perfumed mist.
There are walkways around the site, necessary because the ground is hot and the soil is very sticky and clings to everything. Even so, it is impossible to avoid the sticky mud and there are facilities in the car park to wash your shoes before leaving.
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Shot taken in a geothermal field in South-West Iceland, just beneath the lighthouse of Reykjanes called Reykjanesviti. Steaming springs, boiling sulphur and mud pools rich with chlorides and dissolved silica are characteristic for this area where below the surface temperatures of 300°C have been measured. Earthquakes are very common in the area being located on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. A distintive feature of the area is that the groundwater is salt due to the nearby sea. A sulphur pool in the foreground takes the shape of a giant footstep, so...beware of the land of trolls!
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This is one of the hot springs at Seltúnshverir visible from the Seltún loop trail. This thermal area contains hot springs like this one, as well as, solfataras (fumaroles), mud pools and steaming ground. Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on the of the NE-SW trending Krýsuvík volcanic system on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland.
This mud pool is named after Koko, who was a notable chief of the Rotowhio pā (fortified village) in the Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley. Koko noticed that each time he visited the mud pool it reminded him of playful children – hence the name, which translates as ‘the cherished ones of Koko’. In more recent times Ngā mōkai-ā-Koko has also been called ‘frog pool’, as it is thought that the plopping mud resembles leaping frogs.
At 4,850 metres, the geothermal mud pools of Sol de Mañana in Bolivia need a good 4x4 to get to — the scenery is apocalyptic and completely out of this world.
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Technically the track wandering past the vents and cinder cones in the middle distance is probably the Rauðhóllvegur and it lies off the road to Dettifoss in North Iceland.
The landscape is just desolate with a few sparse clumps of moss among the brittle-looking lava littering the landscape.
Fans of Andy Weir's The Martian will get the reference. Perhaps more so because of the approaching dust storm...
Fuji X-T1, XF 18-55/2.8-4, 1/320th sec at f/10, ISO 200
A little archive find while looking for a different pic.
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Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m and it is 2 km in depth. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.
Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.
The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
The human figure helps to scale the boiling water lakes and introduce some dinamism into the frame. The afternoon sun light, made the rest enhancing those colours of the mood and the ground.
Krafla Area, Iceland, 2010.
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Krafla es una caldera de volcán de unos 10 km de diámetro con una zona de fisura de 90 km de largoa, en el norte de Islandia en la región del Mývatn. Su pico más alto llega hasta los 818 metros y unos 2 km de profundidad. Es una zona muy activa con unas 29
erupciones reportadas a lo largo de su historia.
En el área del Krafla está uno de los dos más conocidos cráteres Víti de Islandia (el otro está en Askja). La palabra islandesa "Viti" significa "infierno". Antiguamente, la gente creía que el infierno estaba bajo los volcanes y el Viti era su perta de entrada. El cráter de este Víti tiene un lago verde en su interior.
El área del Krafla también incluye Námafjall, una zona geotérmica con pozas calientes y fumarolas de vapor.
La figura humana en esta imagen da una idea de la escala de los lagos de agua hirviendo y hace más dinámico el encuadre. La luz del sol de la tarde, hizo el resto resaltando los colores del barro y el suelo.
Área del Krafla, Islandia, 2010.
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In the south of the Krafla caldera, close to the Námafjall, Hverir is a geothermal area with with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
Hverir, Norðurland eystra, Iceland
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Real Name
Fredric Lejardin
Aliases
Badgerman, The Burrower, Aquatimal
Powers
Watermanipulation, Burrowing, Strength, Speed
Abilities
Badgerman is a skilled master in watermanipulation, he can bend water to his will making it a powerful weapon when in battle. With his speedy burrowingtechniques he is able to transport himself and waterfloods over great distances underground. His tactics are usually a surprise attack from below often with mudpools and wateslides.
In hand to hand combat his fierce claws are deadly weapons
Powerups
Mushrooms
Lethal Enemies
Snakes
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For FGR: Water, water, everywhere
thnks KK for putting this in my head all day
Strokkur (Icelandic [ˈstrɔhkʏr̥], "churn") is a fountain-type geyser located in a geothermal area beside the Hvítá River in Iceland in the southwest part of the country, east of Reykjavík. It typically erupts every 6–10 minutes. Its usual height is 15–20 metres (49–66 ft), although it can sometimes erupt up to 40 metres (130 ft) high.
Strokkur belongs to the Haukadalur valley area, where various other geothermal feature such as mud pools, fumaroles and other geysers are located around it, such as the famous Geysir geyser, which lies only 160 feet to the north.
Located just south of the large volcanic caldera Krafla, the Námafjall geothermal area, including Hverir, is located in Northeast Iceland, east of Myvatn. It is a lunar-like landscape of bubbling mud cauldrons, steaming vents, radiant mineral deposits and piping fumaroles and solfataras. And of course the powerful smell of sulphur!
Hverarönd is one of Icelands touristic stops (near the Myvaatn lake), the boiling and spiting sulphuric mud or clay springs make you feel foreign, like you’re trespassing on some unworldly experiment, or like you have gone back in time to the creation of the world itself. However the experience isn't just for your eyes and nose, the place also provides music for your ears as you can hear the scream of steam as it escapes the craters. Out of this world!
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As in the previous posts, it happens that when you shoot a location, you can get some different views of the subject, all of them interesting for some reasons.
Like this shot of the Krafla area, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region.
Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.
The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
You can check the other shot here (and in the first comment of this post). The human figure in the earlier shot helped to scale the boiling water lakes and introduce some dinamism into the frame. This one, shot with a wide lens presents a classic landscape shot, showing a general view of the area.
Both of them give different information of the same subject, a landscape.
Krafla Area, Iceland, 2010.
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Al igual que en los posts anteriores, a veces sucede que al componer una imagen, se puede obtener otra información del mismo sujeto, simplemente disparando con un punto de vista diferente, pese a que todas esas variaciones pueden resultar interesantes por diversos motivos.
Como en esta fotografía del área del Krafla, en el norte de Islandia en la región del Mývatn.
En el área del Krafla está uno de los dos cráteres Víti más conocidos de Islandia (el otro está en Askja). La palabra islandesa "Viti" significa "infierno". Antiguamente, la gente creía que el infierno estaba bajo los volcanes y el Viti era su perta de entrada. El cráter de este Víti tiene un lago verde en su interior.
En la imagen anterior, que se puede ver aquí (y en el primer comentario de este post), la figura humana contribuía a escalar los compoenentes de la imagen, como los lagos de agua hirviendo y hacía más dinámico el encuadre. Por otro lado, esta nueva imagen, hecha con un objetivo gran angular desde el mirmo punto, presenta un paisaje clásico, mostrando una vista general de la zona.
Ambos aportan información diferente sobre el mismo tema, un paisaje.
Área del Krafla, Islandia, 2010.
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From my new 'Summer' series from Iceland.
One of the most unique hot springs to visit in Iceland is Hverir. Hverir is located near Krafla, a caldera or cauldron-like volcanic structure located in North Iceland. Hot water and steam issuing from cracks in the earth, the lava domes, boiling mud pools and sulfurous puddles make this a crazy, incredibly stinky place to wander around for as long as you can bear the rotten egg waft.
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An updated version of an image taken back in July 2015 using Silver Efex Pro 2 for the B&W conversion and processing.
At the foothills of the spectacular volcanic mountain Namafjall is an expanse of hot springs called Hverarondor Hverir. You may find a number of fumaroles, mud pools and mud pots that all seem to be boiling with relentless energy.
Technically the track is probably the Rauðhóllvegur and it lies off the road to Dettifoss in North Iceland.
The landscape is pretty much desolate with a few sparse clumps of moss and struggling Geldingahnappur in the foreground. Some sundry vents and cinder cones a little way off and lumps of sharp and brittle-looking lava littering the landscape.
Fans of Andy Weir's The Martian will get the reference. Perhaps more so because of the approaching dust storm...
Yet another archive pic but no funny business with this one - it is what it is.
Fuji X-T1, XF 18-55/2.8-4, 1/320th se at f/10, ISO 200
Krafla is an area of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m and it is 2 km in depth. The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it. The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.
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This is a very noisy place - I never knew that steam could be so loud. See (or rather hear) the following video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2NZAB_AbyA
RKO_5862. A beautiful group of African elephants gathered at the edge of a mud pool. Protective to their youngsters. Amazing to watch these friendly mammals.
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Wai-o-Tapu is a geothermal area just outside Rotorua. It's 160,000 year old with collapsed craters, cold and hot mud pools and fumaroles.
Each of the features has a name, many Maori. Ipu means a container for liquids. The mud in this crater contains unrefined crude oil. In the 1800s and 1900s the top was skimmed off to use in kerosene lamps. 2 photo stitch.