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Graphite on Paper (2008)
Sketches from my family trip to Farm Sanctuary NY. It was a very peaceful and inspiring experience.
Day 39 - June 17, 2010
The first full day of camp, each cabin was challenged with a scavenger hunt of sorts. Each cabin had to use a clue sheet to find challenges scattered around camp which rewarded the cabin with a poker chip if completed successfully. In this challenge, one of the campers had to wade through the mud pit to get the poker chip on the other side. You can tell from his face that he was hating every minute of it... =)
These mud volcanoes (located in the italian Appennines) are not related to lava volcanoes. Small mud domes are created by geo-excreted liquids (fossil salt water, in this case) and gases (methane here), although there are several different processes which may cause such activity. The Padanian gulf existed 5 mya; 2,5 mya during a marine regression, sea water was trapped in a cretaceous flysch together with organic substance in an anaerobic environment. The flysch was covered by a deep layer of clay and sand. Nowadays, when a fault fractures the rock, fossil cold water, methane and other hydrocarbons mix with clay and surface deposits and erupt producing quiet mud flows.
Vulcani di fango alle salse di Nirano in provincia di Modena.
Local Charity Event, Mud Volleyball action recently. I photographed quite a few of these lovely ladies having fun in the mud for a local charity.
The mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are one of the strangest things I have seen. The oil under the surface reacts with the soil and reaches the surface in the form of cold grey bubbling mud that ends up forming a small volcano. The mud is safe to touch as it is cold and meant to be good for the skin. However, when the pressure builds up, those volcanoes can erupt, sometimes quite violently.