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This was built to commemorate the Boxing Day Tsunami which devastated parts of the west coast of Phuket in 2004. The impressive sculpture is called the “Heart of the Universe” and was made out of metal wire in the form of a wave by Thai artist Udon Jiraksa.
This is was taken hand-held with the 35mm f1.8 prime with no flash and is a single RAW file processed in Lightroom, CS6 and Topaz Adjust.
Hawaii's Big Island would be a strange place to live, because it's basically under siege by the elements.
Fresh volcanic activity? Like that which consumed the town of Kalapana? Or whole swaths of highway? As early as ten, twenty years ago? Check.
Earthquakes? Some caused by the aforementioned volcano belches? Like the one in 2006 that wrecked buildings and lost lives? Check.
Oh, what about tsunamis? Dozens of big mamma jammas over the years, many spawned from far away (due to earthquakes in Alaska or Chile, for instance), killing hundreds over the last century (and attacking small towns like the aforementioned lava-swallowed Kalapana)? Check.
Plus, you got hurricanes (check), high sulfur levels in the air from the volcanoes (check), riptides (check), just about every man-eating shark known to man (check), and hungry cyborg dolphins piloted by rogue human-hating nene geese (check!).
Wait. Maybe that last one was in a dream I had. I'll have to do some more reading. Maybe Wikipedia will help me.
Anyway. What I'm trying to say is, Hawaii's Big Island is not really a safe place to live. You could die there. And yet, people live there. Why? Because its awesome, that's why. Because sometimes, to have The Awesome, you have to deal with Things That Want To Kill You. It's just how it is. It's risk versus reward. Bigger reward = bigger risk, a universal equation.
Would I live there? Okay, here's the confusing part: nope. Why? Because then paradise ceases to become paradise. My inserting me permanently into the Big Island (or the Big Island permanently into my brainspace), I've basically sullied paraside. I'm the drop of sooty oil in a glass of perfectly clear and crisp water. You don't want me polluting it.
Wherever you live eventually becomes a place you want to get away from. Were I to live in Hawaii's Big Island, I'd have to take vacation in like, Minnesota or something.
(Er, never mind that Hawaii is stupidly expensive. Their tax rates are, I think, at 107%, and they require you to donate toes and tithe non-essential organs to the state once a year).
How does all of this relate to the picture? Well, it's a flower. From Hawaii. That looks like a wave. A tsunami, even. A giant, body-swallowing, life-ending tsunami. Found this flower in the rainforest of Volcano.
Enjoy! HBW!
This vessel was left where it was washed ashore in the 2004 Tsunami and is now a lasting memorial to all that perished.
From a series on work making Tsumani defenses on the coast of Chiba, Japan. Paradise for concrete makers.
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Non è passato molto dal devastante terremoto e dal successivo, ed altrettanto devastante, tsunami.
Domenica scorsa ero a Lerici, nella costiera ligure, e nel sotterraneo del castello c'era una mostra di quadri: alcuni studenti di un liceo avevano imitato (molto bene, peraltro) alcuni quadri famosi, inserendovi il profilo del castello di Lerici al posto degli elementi neturali di queste opere.
Tra queste, il famossismo "la grande onda" di Katsushika Hokusai, col castello al posto del vulcano Fujihama.
Allora mi è venuto questo scatto: Dal giorno dello tsunami, il Giappone è entrato in un tunnel, da cui sarà dura uscirne. E credo che in questa foto, sia simboleggiata perfettamente la loro situazione.
In bocca al lupo, Giappone.
our fifth member of the family enjoyed his holiday as much as we did, so funny to see how Danbo was playing with pebbles & waves, he build his own castle to protect him against the flood....unfortunately, without any succes....
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It is a tsunami tower in the earthquake prone province of Bengkulu Sumatra. Like many projects here in Sumatra it is dysfunctional and abandoned.
A picture above the door of the church at Redwick, showing a representation of the floods of 1607, probably caused by a tsunami, although storm surge is also possible. Most of the land around the Severn estuary was affected, with waters up to 8 feet deep. Approximately 2000 lives were lost.
Not really a tsunami, just a double exposure that happened to look like it. The big wave seeming to sweep over our town hall, was just a close up of some whitewater on our river.
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6th January 2005: A G Maduwage and his wife in front of their overturned jeep near the train accident in Hikkaduwa.
5 years ago, a terrible earthquake struck Japan, followed by a deadly tsunami, then a major nuclear disaster.
Il y a 5 ans, un terrible tremblement de terre secouait le Japon, suivi d'un tsunami meurtrier, puis d'un désastre nucléaire majeur.
Yuigahama, Kamakura. Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. Multiexposure mode. ƒ/5. iso800. No alteration.
This 300 ton rock is evidence of a Tsunami aproximately 3 thousand Years ago along the Coast-- Hamelin Bay region. The rock has been moved 4.5 Meters north after splitting from the 700 ton granite pillow. It would require a wave height of aprox 18 meters to displace. Which is Well above normal severe Storm Wave heights. REFERENCE: Holocene Paleo-Tsunami History Western Australian Coast. University of Wollongong 2008.
las cosas que nos gustan, las cosas de las que hablamos, las cosas que sabemos dibujar, gracias por un castillo de colores, un jardín de calma, por sentarte a tomar un café conmigo. let's have a coffee break.
un nuevo trabajo de Kokoro, con Pablo Cardona, :3
The Wave, by Hokusai.
Woodcut by Hokusai:
stunning power, majestic strength, perfect composition.
I do not criticise this masterpiece
with its intense colours, the water deep,
the motion captured at its climax,
the perched boat with its frightened mariners:
indeed, as a work of art, it is beyond any reproach.
The reality is different.
Brown swell, carrying debris, surges over the islands,
overwhelms the shores,
indiscriminately,
the water full of twisted trees, of broken humanity,
of blood and faeces.
The taxi driver taking tourists inland to see the elephants,
returned to find his home gone, his wife gone, his children
gone,
their bodies washed into the now placid ocean
to feed the ever-circling sharks.
Fear and apathy remain:
stunned
by this Christmas gift from an unstable earth,
the survivors huddle, without houses, families, work,
without clothing, medicines, electricity;
waiting for normality to return,
waiting for hand-outs from the distant nations,
reclaiming their own dead, their own part in this foreign tragedy.
Now statistics rule:
the earthquake measured on the Richter scale,
the thousands dead, the numbers unaccounted for,
the money raised, obscuring the simple facts
of ruined lives, of helplessness, of mankind's ultimate insignificance.
The word once belonged to oceanographers,
to geologists, to vulcanographers:
now we all know it:
tsunami.
(Published by Charnia, Jan 2006 - a geological magazine produced by Leicester University).
We went out to one part of the beach on Galle hit by the Tsunami on Christmas of 2004. This tree was one of those few standing alone there now....
Sri Lanka
Jan 2006
One gutted house, from which a complete family was lost, was kept as a monument to the tsunami that hit Banda Aceh.
Sucre, cuyo nombre oficial es La Ilustre y Heroica Sucre, es la capital constitucional e histórica del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. Anteriormente fue conocida como Charcas, La Plata y Chuquisaca. En la actualidad, es sede de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, del Tribunal Constitucional, del Consejo de la Judicatura y de la Fiscalía General de la República. Es también sede del Tribunal Agrario Nacional y de la Asamblea Constituyente, además de ser capital del departamento de Chuquisaca. La ciudad tiene una población aproximada de 300.000 habitantes y se encuentra localizada en la parte central sur del país, a una altitud de 2.800 metros. Se la conoce también como La Ciudad Blanca y La Ciudad de los Cuatro Nombres.
A year ago Japan suffered from this horrible Tsunami. I saw some footage from the devastation last sunday; some of the images stuck in my mind, and I reworked them in this drawing.
Washed out Hero fountainpen ink in a large Moleskine.
A North Vancouver, BC couple, John and Jackie Knill, were on a 4-month vacation to Thailand. Unfortunately, they were on the beach on December 26, 2004, when the Tsunami hit. They have gone missing ever since.
Their digital camera was later located on the beach. Although the camera was damaged, the last, haunting, images were preserved. These photos show the advance of the Tsunami. You can read the Story from the Seattle Times at:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002188746_knill...
This photo shows the Tsunami approaching the beach. A woman in the foreground is attempting to run away.
Another try at getting a good shot of the steel bearing hitting a tray full of half and half (I ran out of cream so I stole some of my wife's half and half. Bad boy).
This shot looks really fun. I will have to try a few more of these before I move on.
One of my more interesting ideas in a long time...
Cheers.