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20170106_114452_P1220528.JPG Newly frozen sea and the church of Suomenlinna behind the frost covered trees.
Watching sunset over the Crater Lake, at Sentinel Rock, Skell Head
Crater Lake is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a nearly 2,148-foot (655 m)-deep caldera that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall. With a depth of 1,949 feet (594 m), the lake is the deepest in the United States. In the world, it ranks ninth for maximum depth, and third for average depth. It is a central (but not the only) attraction of the eponymous national park. [Partially rephrased from Wikipidia.]
The ancient greeting that the ocean and lava have been doing since the beginning of time. The moon hides behind the distant clouds watching the show
Salt evaporation ponds about 40 kilometers north of Cusco, Peru.
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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” (Stephen Hawking)
A very busy spot very early in the morning. Each boat takes a turn up close to the lava. No the big boat is not on fire.
This one is from the salt evaporation ponds at Maras, Peru, approximately 40km north of Cusco. There are more than 5,000 of these ponds. According to Wiki:
"Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. Almost all the ponds are less than four meters square in area, and none exceeds thirty centimeters in depth. All are necessarily shaped into polygons with the flow of water carefully controlled and monitored by the workers. The altitude of the ponds slowly decreases, so that the water may flow through the myriad branches of the water-supply channels and be introduced slowly through a notch in one sidewall of each pond."
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"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." (Maimonides)
Any season can produce wonderful photos. I found that even “The Cold Of Winter” can give us beauty when and where we least suspect it. Thanks for viewing my photos. Gratitude and Kindness are present everywhere we go. Continue to share these attributes.
As the lake water evaporates, the various creatures calling it home have to adapt. This Bullfrog sits in the limited shade on a hot morning. It will soon commence eating and interacting with and calling out to its fellow Bullfrogs, in the low groan that is incorporated in the Québécois French name Ouaouaron. The name is borrowed from the Wendat, also known as Wendat Huron, an indigenous nation spreading at times from Quebec City (where they continue to live on an urban territory) to as far west as Lake Simcoe.
The heat and dryness this summer has exposed more lake bottom, and driven frogs and fish into pools - where, needless to say, they are more vulnerable to the many Herons and Egrets that hunt on the Lake.
Virga - where an observable shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground. Photo taken June 21, 2020
Mist evaporating from the lake softened the glassy refections on this lovely morning...I wish I lived across from this view!
This photo gives some nice perspective of the size of the area involved in the salt evaporation ponds at Maras, Peru.
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." (David Brin)
06:59 AM on a morning in May...Wandering out to my garden in the early morning hours is where you'll find such treasures. We'd had a bit of rain and I was hopeful that Mother Nature might have blessed the foliage with a few drops. I was the only one to see this spectacular balancing act...the drops perched delicately on the edge of the leaves. I'm thankful I was able to record this for posterity.
Evaporated salt over the sandy shoreline
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
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The day before was really hot one, but at the end of it started to rain. Early morning in the small mountain village was very interesting with this haze moving from the mountain up to the sky - it's like the clouds were born from this place.
Intrepid Potash Evaporation Pools, Moab, UT - PUBLISHED: www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/pict...
Salt Flats of Trapani, Sicily.
The extraction of salt from seawater is an ancient tradition in Sicily, its origins are said to date back to the 12th century. This ancient windmill was used to pump seawater to various evaporation basins.
Click to enlarge the photo and see the traces of time.
Maras is a town in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, well known for its salt evaporation ponds, located towards Urubamba from the town center, which have been in use since Inca times.
I finally made it into one of my favorite canyons yesterday after a year of staying away from the crowds. Though there was no ice, winter light on canyon walls reflected ribbons of wet along the edge of pools soon to be evaporated by spring temps and diminishing precipitation.
Last evening, at sunset, we got this rainbow without any rain hitting the ground. This was a virga precipitation, where the rain evaporates shortly after leaving the clouds.
Seen facing south, from the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.
Mist evaporating from the lake softened the glassy reflections on this lovely morning...I wish I lived across from this view! (not today...more form the archives)...for Michael who is coming to Nova Scotia in October. On Explore July 22/o8 @ 162 (still there Aug. 17 at #498 says Scout) (Taken in October 2007)
Getting nearer to Salt Lake City, the sun set as we drove across the amazing Newfoundland Evaporation Basin. This was the most incredibly straight road I had ever seen...not a single turn for 41 miles! Salt on all sides made it look like a winter dusting of snow, but stepping out to take a poto quickly reminded me where we were..so hot!
As water evaporates from the sun-warmed ponds, the water becomes supersaturated and salt precipitates as crystals on the inner surfaces of a pond's earthen walls and on the pond's earthen floor. The pond's keeper then closes off the water flow and allows the pond to go dry. Within a few days the keeper carefully scrapes the dry salt from the sides and bottom, puts it into a suitable vessel, reopens the water-supply, and carries away the salt. The salt varies in colour from white to a light reddish or brownish tan, depending on the skill of an individual worker. Salt and many salt based treats are sold at nearby gift shops.
Source: Wikipedia. I am unable to add this shot to the map because it has no knowledge of Maras. Could we not have access to a real map, such as Google Maps?
This lady was working in the Salt Pans at Maras. The pans are sold for different reasons depending on the type of salt. The pans are different colours according to the quality and as the spring water from the Qoripujio spring evaporates the salt is collected for sale by the families who own the pools.
The evaporation of seawater after a cold night is a spectacular event, but quite difficult to capture. Unfortunately, this phase of winter passed by far too quickly this time. The cold weather continued for so long that the entire Gulf of Finland froze over very quickly in front of Helsinki. Hopefully, next winter will have milder periods so that the freezing lasts longer, as has been the case in recent years.
The last time such a long cold period occurred was over ten years ago.
Captured in the Uuutela nature reserve in Helsinki in early January (A7C0193-2e).
Sony ILCE-7CM2 + E 28-200mm F2.8-5.6 A071
1/40 sec at f/13, ISO 100, 37 mm