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This native New Zealand rainforest scene was taken from the path to The Chasm near Milford Sound. This relatively small country has such varied landscapes!
This is another picture taken in the parking lot of the Chasm in Milford Sound, where we decided to stop off before heading to our campsite at Milford Lodge. There we met our first kea, and after a few minutes our incredibly cute and curious green feathered friend realized he wasn't going to be fed and flew off. As I then opened the door of our motorhome to get back in, I looked up the mountainside and noticed the mist drifting through the rainforest. As the mist was moving quite quickly, I decided to shoot handheld, otherwise I might have missed the best shots while setting up the tripod. I'm really happy with this image as it has so much mood and atmosphere, and every time I look at it, it reminds me of a land before our time that looks so untouched and wild. I hope you like it too!
Taken from the ferry, this area is known as The Chasms and the rock stack on the left in The Sugarloaf Rock. On he skyline is the former cafe. This whole area was a very popular spot in Victorian and Edwardian times. It is relatively easy to access from Cregneash and Port St Mary.
It is still popular with walkers and bird-watchers. At times dolphins and whales can be seen from the rocks.
Tweaked a bit for Sliders Sunday.
From left to right you can see the Bocca Nuova, Voragine and on the far left not clearly visible there is the Northeast Crater behind the gas cloud. In the right lower corner you can see the flank of the South East Crater from where this picture was taken. Strong gas emission and south easterly winds made good observations impossible.
Canon PowerShot G3
Aufnahmedatum/-zeit: 19.05.2007 06:19
Tv (Verschlusszeit): 1/800
Av (Blendenzahl): 4.0
Objektiv: 7.2 - 28.8mm
Brennweite: 7.2mm
Located 110km en route from Te Anau to Milford Sound. Well worth a stop. Good coffee there too thanks to Coffee Cat.
Local cloud cover helped much here. When the sun comes out there are many small sun-spots due to overhanging trees that make it almost impossible (probably impossible) to photograph.
Water Carved rocks at 'The Chasm' on the road to Milford Sound
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Taken in Milford Sound in 2013.
This one of The Chasm a wonderful stream in Milford Sound.
I waited around for a few minutes to get the clouds to disperse in the far of valley, but then settled for the overcast setting.
I wish I could go back there soon my photo catalog is running low on good shots.
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24mm at 18mm an aperture of f/11 with a 1/100th of a second exposure shot at ISO 200.
Potholes at The Chasm, Milford Sound Road, New Zealand. I think that this lies just upstream of the deep slots carved into the rock by the river.
Early morning trip to Sandymount. The rocks in the foreground are the remnants of an old drystone fence/wall. HDR from 7 exposures with 1 stop intervals, processed in Photomatix with the details enhancer.
“A cherished corner of the world where mountains and valleys compete with each other for room, where scale is almost beyond comprehension, rainfall is measured in metres and scenery encompasses the broadest width of emotions”.
-from ‘Mountains of Water - The Story of Fiordland NP’
Formidable Fiordland is New Zealand’s largest and most impenetrable wilderness, a jagged, mountainous, densely forested landmass ribbed with deeply recessed sounds (which are technically fiords) reaching inland like crooked fingers from the Tasman Sea.
The Cleddau River flows into the head of Milford Sound, one of the fourteen fiords that indent Fiordland’s west coast. Early Europeans exploring the southern coastline bestowed the names of sounds onto these dramatic valleys; however a true ‘sound’ is a river valley that has been flooded due to the land sinking below sea level. Fiords are created by glacial action that produces u-shaped valleys with steep cliffs. The mistake can be understood when you realise that many of these early sailors were of English and Welsh extraction and weren’t familiar with fiords. The mistake survives in the names of the sounds, but the region was renamed Fiordland to recognise the true nature of these rugged inlets. Milford Sound is named after Milford Haven in Wales, while the Cleddau River which flows into the sound is also named for its Welsh namesake.
At The Chasm, the forest-cloaked Cleddau River plunges through eroded boulders in a narrow rock chasm carved by the river. Thousands of years of swirling river water have sculpted round shapes and basins in solid rock. The sheer velocity of water gives an appreciation of how much rainfall the Milford Sound area receives per annum. The Chasm is at its roaring best just after or during rainfall. With a mean annual rainfall of 6,412 mm each year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 250 mm during a span of 24 hours.
The rock in the middle is known as The Sugarloaf Rock. Although you can't see from this angle it is in fact separated from the mainland and is surrounded by sea. It is home to many Razorbills and Guillemots who create a build-up of guano colouring the rock white.
The Chasm, near Milford Sound, is where the Cleddau River carves itself through granite rock on its way into the Sound.
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Etna has four summit craters. Three of these, the Northeast Crater, the Bocca Nuova, and the Southeast Crater, have shown signs of activity in 2010. The same three craters returned to eruptive activity after several years of quiescence between late-1995 and late-1996. In the spring of 1997, only the Voragine, the largest of the four craters, remained silent. An open pit on its crater floor silently emitted gas and vapor, as it had done for many years.
This changed in mid-July 1997, when small Strombolian explosions began to eject fragments of incandescent lava, and a tiny cone began to grow over the former degassing pit. I first saw this rather minuscule cone on 25 July 1997, and then again on 5 August, which is when I took this photograph from the nearby Northeast Crater (note my colleague in the lower right part of the photo, for scale). The activity continued at rather modest levels into the fall of 1997, then ceased, after the emission of a little lava flow on the crater floor surrounding the little cone. In the spring of 1998, the Voragine woke up again, and now the activity became much more intense and spectacular, leading to the rapid filling of the crater as can be seen in the photo below, which was taken from nearly the same position.
Photo scanned from original Ektachrome slide
If you are ever in the Isle of Man on a hot sunny day may I suggest a walk around the southern tip of the island from Port St. Mary to Port Erin.
I took this picture near The Chasms where the cliffs are alive with nesting seabirds, mainly Kittiwake. It is a good place to stop as one can enjoy the stunning scenery accompanied by a Kittiwake orchestra.
Nikon D5100 and Nikkor 10-24mm AF-S F3.5-4.5 lens.
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Among the four summit craters of Mount Etna volcano in Sicily, the largest is known as the "Voragine" (which means "the big mouth", but it has also been called "The Chasm"). Many people around Etna also call it "Cratere Centrale", although the true Central Crater of Etna was obliterated in the early 1960s due to its filling with lava and intracrater cones. One vent, which had formed in 1945 within the old Central Crater, was the Voragine, which initially was a small circular pit, but by the early 1980s had grown into a broad crater, about 350 m wide. The Voragine rarely produces significant eruptive activity, but when it lets loose, this is usually the most violent activity seen at Etna's summit craters (though the Northeast Crater sometimes has been a serious competitor).
The Voragine erupted strongly in late-August 1989 and on a small scale, it seems, sometime in 1991, after which it remained silent for about 6 years. During these 6 years, there was an open vent on the bottom of the Voragine, through which gas escaped in a slightly pulsating manner. This was the state in which I found the Voragine when I obtained my first clear view of its interior on 12 October 1995, which is shown in the upper left and right photos. At that time, the nearby Northeast Crater resumed its activity, which later culminated in 10 episodes of violent lava fountaining, followed, in July-August 1996, by Strombolian activity and the emission of lava flows into three directions from the Northeast Crater, to the east, to the northwest, and to the south. Immediately to the south of the Northeast Crater is the Voragine. The southbound lava flow thus spilled into the Voragine, and entered into the open degassing pit. Those who were privileged enough to assist to this rare phenomenon describe it as most eerie and awe-inspiring, also because the lava from the Northeast Crater, which was swallowed by the pit within the Voragine, lasted one month but never filled or obstructed the pit. It remained open, and this is how I saw it when I next visited Etna, on 20 September 1996, as shown in the center left and right photographs. Though the view was rather hazy, the pit on the bottom of the Voragine could be seen to be open and degassing.
Finally, in the summer of 1997, something began to move within the Voragine itself. In the spring, a small landslide occurred, which obstructed the pit (as seen in the bottom left and right photographs, taken 14 June 1997). Little more than one month later, around 20 July 1997, very minor eruptive activity started from the site of the pit, and within a few days a very small cone began to grow in its place.
Photos scanned from original Ektachrome slides
I've seen that my Etna comparison photos have a certain success, so here we go for another round of quite amazing changes, witnessed and photographed during the dramatic years of 1997-1998.
Let's remember: the Voragine is the largest and laziest of the four summit craters of Etna. This means, it rarely erupts but when it does, things can get extremely intense. Some of the most violently explosive eruptions of Etna in recent decades have come from the Voragine, including two powerful, so-called sub-Plinian events in 1998 and 1999.
These photos were taken from different angles and at different focal distance (zoom vs. wideangle). The top four photographs were all taken from the western crater rim and show the first, relatively mild phase of activity, which lasted from July to November 1997, and the ensuing repose period (December 1997-May 1998). The 4 June 1998 photo is the only one in the series that was taken from the east rim of the Voragine, when vigorous eruptive activity occurred from a vent in the southeast portion of the crater. The three latest views (15 June, 13 July, and 20 August 1998) were all taken from the Northeast Crater (to the north of the Voragine), and show the quite rapid filling of the Voragine, which culminated with the sub-Plinian eruption of 22 July 1998.
More to follow - if 1997 and 1998 were quite spectacular years at the Voragine, 1999 was still more exciting.
All photos scanned from original (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and Fujichrome) color slides
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After a fortnight of carnival atmosphere the island has come back to normalcy. TT bike racing is the most popular event in the island attracting thousands of people and trebling the population for a fortnight. Not the best time if you are an Orthopaedic surgeon. Having dealt with the bloodbath and mayhem for the last two weeks I needed a break. The Chasms are spectacular clefts in the southeast corner of the island. This one is placed in the most southern tip where late evening sun shows its magic before dipping behind the hills of Sound. Captured this one with Canon 5D MkII, 17-40 L @27mm,f/16,exposure-60 seconds, ISO-50. Used the ND110 and Lee GND 0.9 hard.
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This walk leads to two foot bridges over the Cleddau River, offering dramatic views of a series of powerful waterfalls. Thousands of years of swirling water have sculpted shapes and basins in the rock.
This forest of tree ferns gives an appreciation of how much rainfall the Milford Sound area receives.
This walk is off the Milford Road in Fiordland National Park, about halfway between Milford Sound and the Homer Tunnel.