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Taal Volcano and Taal Lake
Wow, I was totally surprised and a bit emotional to be back and see this volcano once more. In one of the first year's we visited the Philippines, we climbed on a donkey the beautiful green part, the Binintiang Malaki (Big Leg), one of the dormant parts of Taal Volcano to the volcano lake.
Now, after so many years and totally unexpected we were near the volcano once more.
Unexpected? Yes, we wanted to go to another amusement park, called Enchanted kingdom, but when we got there, it was booked by a big compamy for the whole day (ofcourse, nothing was mentioned of this on the internet, these things happen in the Philippines...), and to have some happy children in the car, we decided to go here, Sky Ranch, with the most magnificent views.
Taal is a very powerful volcano , the whole island is a high-risk area.
Despite the warnings, some families remain settled on the island, earning a living by fishing and farming crops in the rich volcanic soil
It is in Calabarzon on the island Luzon, Philippines
Taal has erupted many times, ands in 2020 was a really big eruption ad and this natural disaster caused many problems.
And now it is so strange and a bit scary to see Taal back in this condition.
Taal Volcano and Taal Lake
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Wow, I was totally surprised and a bit emotional to be back and see this volcano once more. In one of the first year's we visited the Philippines, we climbed on a donkey the beautiful green part, the Binintiang Malaki (Big Leg), one of the dormant parts of Taal Volcano to the volcano lake.
Now, after so many years and totally unexpected we were near the volcano once more.
Unexpected? Yes, we wanted to go to another amusement park, called Enchanted kingdom, but when we got there, it was booked by a big compamy for the whole day (ofcourse, nothing was mentioned of this on the internet, these things happen in the Philippines...), and to have some happy children in the car, we decided to go here, Sky Ranch, with the most magnificent views.
It is in Calabarzon on the island Luzon, Philippines
Taal is a very powerful volcano , the whole island is a high-risk area.
Despite the warnings, some families remain settled on the island, earning a living by fishing and farming crops in the rich volcanic soil
Taal has erupted many times, ands in 2020 was a really big eruption and this natural disaster caused many problems.
And now it is so strange and a bit scary to see Taal back in this condition.
hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modro_jezero On link above you can see what this lake actually looks like, but this fall, the lake has dried up. The water that was there and made this lake a beautiful sight has disappeared. This way it's just one huge hole. Sad! The local boys used this tragedy as an opportunity to play a football match at the bottom of the lake, so they made the contours of a football field at the bottom of the lake and played a match (a few days before my visit). I hope that the rains that have fallen in the last couple of days have contributed to the lake starting to fill up.
The raging wildfire sweeping for many days the north side of the island of Evia, Greece, seen from the southern cliffs of Pelion peninsula. Picture taken on Saturday, August 7 of 2021.
The wildfires in Canada are sad as any wildfires are but they do offer interesting photos sometimes. The air quality has been pretty bad lately but it's finally clearing up here.
Resilience.
This row of trees close to Pukehou, a small farming community in between Hastings and Waipawa in Hawke's Bay, is a regular subject of my photography. The fields here, as well as other parts of New Zealand, were recently flooded by Cyclone Gabrielle, causing significant damage to crops and houses.
It was good to see that these trees are still standing tall and proud, and were as inviting as ever, especially in the gentle light of dawn. It gave me a sense of resilience and hope, embodied by the enduring presence of these splendid trees.
This group of trees is a regular subject of my photography. Have a look here for more: www.josbuurmans.nz/portfolio/hawkes-bay-recurring-trees
I composed this image recently while hiking in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, in Southern California. There was much beauty in evidence there, but also scenes likes this, signs of the destruction wrought by tropical storm and former hurricane Hilary.
Hurricane Hilary was a large and powerful Pacific hurricane in August 2023 that brought torrential rainfall and gusty winds to the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula, and the Southwestern United States, resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides. Hilary weakened as it approached land, making landfall as a tropical storm in San Quintín along the western Baja California peninsula. The storm tracked northward into California, the first tropical storm to enter the state since Nora in 1997.
In anticipation of "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding", the National Hurricane Center issued its first-ever tropical storm warning for Southern California, extending from the Mexico–United States border to just north of Los Angeles.
A dramatic scene of a rural farmhouse with a young boy sitting on a fence, gazing at an ominous, approaching storm. The sky is filled with dark, swirling supercell, creating a sense of impending danger and awe. The vast, open countryside and the rustic setting highlight the contrast between the serene moment and the powerful forces of nature about to unfold.
AI creation
This row of trees close to Pukehou, a small farming community in between Hastings and Waipawa in Hawke's Bay, is a regular subject of my photography. The fields here, as well as other parts of New Zealand, were recently flooded by Cyclone Gabrielle, causing significant damage to crops and houses. Seeing these trees still standing amongst the flooded fields and the misty fog that was covering the hills in the background enabled me to find a sense of balance and calm in the midst of uncertainty and change.
This group of trees is a regular subject of my photography. Have a look here for more: www.josbuurmans.nz/portfolio/hawkes-bay-recurring-trees
This one is from a year ago, May 15. 2010.
This eruption in Eyjafjallajökull is small compared to the one in Vatnajökull.
Craco, in provincia di Matera, contava quasi 2000 abitanti quando, nel 1963, a causa di una frana di vaste proporzioni, iniziò ad essere evacuata e parte degli abitanti si trasferì a valle. Nel 1972 un'alluvione peggiorò ulteriormente la situazione, impedendo un eventuale ripopolazione del centro storico e Craco vecchio venne completamente abbandonato trasformandosi in un paese fantasma. Il fatto che il borgo sia rimasto intatto ha contribuito a rendere particolare l'abitato di Craco, che per tale caratteristica è diventato una meta turistica ed un set cinematografico per vari film.
Nel 2010, il borgo è entrato nella lista dei monumenti da salvaguardare redatta dalla World Monuments Fund
The ghost town
Craco is a ghost town and comune in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.
The old town was abandoned due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location. In 2010, Craco has been included in the watch list of the World Monuments Fund.
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Ecuador's Volcan Tungurahua began erupting on the afternoon of Nov. 27, but was shrouded in cloud for that first evening. Tonight, however, (Nov. 28) was a different story. Mama Tungurahua put on a spectacular show for us.
The Four Mile Canyon Fire is, as of today, the worst in Colorado history. Easily a half dozen friends have lost their homes, with more unconfirmed due to evacuations. I'll post some links for information and charity funds below.
fourmilefirehelp.com/ - A forum to rally resources and offer help to evacuees
www.dailycamera.com/fourmile-canyon-fire/ci_16038359 - Northwestern Boulder put on evacuation notice, high winds may bring the fire to our doorsteps
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Featured in both the Flickr Blog and Elephant Journal (links below).
www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/boulder-fire-heartbreakin...
blog.flickr.net/en/2010/09/09/four-mile-canyon-wildfire-i...
Thanks to both Anneke and Paige for letting me use this!
The Ballestas Islands, off the south coast of Peru, offer tremendous viewing opportunities, from the Humboldt penguin to birds such as blue-footed booby, guanay guano bird, and seals, sea lions and other mammals. Guano or bird dung is harvested for fertilizer on the islands.
In a small boat, one travels roughly 19 km from shore often through fog and mist but rarely rain. The islands are extremely dry and support little plant life. From a distance, the rock formations and arches appear surreal.
After a visit to Ballestas Islands in 2006, our return visit in 2007 was interrupted by an 8.0 Richter earthquake that caused massive destruction and the deaths of more than 500 local inhabitants. Several beautiful natural arches on the islands also collapsed. We were scheduled to be in a hotel that collapsed in Pisco the evening of the earthquake but had, miraculously, made a late switch in the itinerary, which placed us 10 hours away in Arequipa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballestas_Islands
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/17/naturaldisasters.tr...
fourmilefirehelp.com/ - A forum to rally resources and offer help to evacuees
www.dailycamera.com/fourmile-canyon-fire/ci_16038359 - Northwestern Boulder put on evacuation notice, high winds may bring the fire to our doorsteps
Featured in both the Flickr Blog and Elephant Journal (links below).
www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/boulder-fire-heartbreakin...
blog.flickr.net/en/2010/09/09/four-mile-canyon-wildfire-i...
Threat of wildfire depicted by the allusive reflections and the colors of fire on everyday mundane home objects.
What do you call taking a photo of a volcano together with the Northern lights on a starry night ? - "Once in a lifetime opportunity" doesn't really cover it.
The volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland 2010, causing extensive air traffic disruption, started with an eruption on the east side of the volcano in a place called Fimmvörðuháls. The location provided an opportunity for up-close encounters and with a team of SUV enthusiasts and other photography nerds I was able to travel to the remote site of the eruption. We crossed the glacier Mýrdalsjökull using vehicles specially modified for glacial driving, lucky enough to catch the perfect day in between days of blizzards and poor visibility. At the site of the eruption, we could only humbly watch the power of nature presenting us with a scene of roaring fire and earth's landscaping in action as the lava flowed from the crater to lower grounds. The visual impression got even more intense in the twilight hour, bringing out the vivid colors of the fire, set against the dark blue sky. As we got ready to leave that night and finished getting our obligatory volcano portraits taken, I notice the Northern lights appearing in the starry skies above the volcano for a fleeting moment – the biggest Kodak moment of my life.
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In lieu of the Japanese devastation and loss of lives... .. I will be taking a break to re-group. This has been a life changing event for me and frankly the whole world... Blessings to all my Flickr Friends.
Torna a farsi sentire la Voragine con uno spettacolo incredibile.
3 Dicembre 2015 - Composizione di 5 scatti.
VIDEO: vimeo.com/148080170
You can have all the money in your hands
All the possessions anyone can ever have
But it's all worthless treasure
True worth is only measured not by what you got
But what you got in your heart
You can have, you can have everything
But what does it, what does it mean
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
You can't just talk the talk
You got to walk that walk yes you do
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
And I'll stand up for you
And I'll stand up for you
yes I will, yes I will
You do the best to do the best that you can do
Then you can look in the mirror
proud of who's looking back at you
Define the life you're living
Not by what you take but what you're giving
And if you bet on love no way you'll ever lose
take a stand, make a stand for what's right
It's always worth, always worth the fight
‘Cuz It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
You can't just talk the talk
You got to walk that walk, yes you do
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
and I'll stand up for you
Self respect, dignity
If that's all you got
Then you got all you need
And without that you don't have a thing
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
You can't just talk the talk
You got to walk that walk, yes you do
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
and I'll stand up for you.
Song by: Andra Day.
Two years ago I posted a picture of a droplet for "Fridays for Future" and some individual was complaining and insulting Greta Thunberg. This really upset me. The things she warned about have now come to fruition. It's time to stand up and do something for the future. It's 1 minute to Midnight! I hope you can spare a minute to watch the video.
This is how the Volcán de Fuego looked just over 12 hours into its eruption. It was incredible to watch this event unfold from a rooftop in Antigua Guatemala. I watched it most of the night and then was up for sunrise to continue documenting the eruption. The morning light hit the pyroclastic cloud and gave it this purple color. As the light changed the cloud color changed from purple to orange to green and then eventually blue. It was pretty amazing to watch.
Marvels can come in many forms—It's a shame that such a beautiful thing as this fire can also destroy so many homes and burn a swathe through all those lives. One man, interviewed by the local paper, said that the canoe he built with his dad when he was sixteen was in the house he narrowly escaped this morning.
Maybe the point of a marvel is to help us value our own lives more - to go back and build or preserve or create on that same level of grandeur.
Here's my effort for tonight.
Four Mile Canyon fire, shot from Flagstaff. Composition and processing inspired in part by antimethod.
fourmilefirehelp.com/ - A forum to rally resources and offer help to evacuees
www.dailycamera.com/fourmile-canyon-fire/ci_16038359 - Northwestern Boulder put on evacuation notice, high winds may bring the fire to our doorsteps
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Featured in Elephant Journal (link below).
www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/boulder-fire-heartbreakin...
Gerald Moni is Co-Chairman of West Tennessee for the Tennessee Cave Survey. Here he's seen field-checking a submission of mine after the Fall TCS meeting. Gerald was the star of his own National Geographic show - Expeditions to the Edge in 2004.
See here for more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_rescue#Historical_examples
The nearby rubbish was from the recent flood event that occurred in Cookeville. This cave is part of a drainage system for a large sinkhole. The high-water mark was right at the lip of this entrance. The swallet(s) below are choked with anthropogenic debris which may prevent the effective draining of the sinkhole.
Used in the blog post The Origins of Data, and the Future of State Cave Surveys.
This natural disaster was caused by a factor of high tide, strong winds and the bursting of a dam ...
The results in human casualties and large number of victims could have been avoided 24 hours earlier, choosing to evacuate people ...
To the 21st century, we don’t dispose unfortunately any sufficiently evolve technologies to prevent the natural disasters happen…
But on the other hand:
* We could adopt avoidance behavior, while stopping building on areas of risk (flooding, earthquakes with destructive magnitude, tornadoes... )
* And we can, to the planet scale, adopt less polluting behaviors, to reduce the greenhouse gas, and thus to reduce the intensity of certain natural disasters, of which the climatic warming contributes to increase their intensity...
= French version
Cette catastrophe naturelle a été causée par un coefficient de marée élevé, des vents forts et la rupture d'une digue ...
Le bilan en pertes humaines et en nombre élevé de sinistrés aurait pu être évité 24 heures plus tôt, en choisissant d'évacuer les populations...
Au 21ème siècle, nous ne disposons malheureusement pas de technologies suffisamment évoluées pour empêcher les catastrophes naturelles...
Mais en revanche:
* nous pourrions adopter des comportements d'évitement, en arrêtant de construire sur les zones à risque (d'inondations, de séismes à magnitude destructrice, de tornades...)
* et nous pourrions, à l'échelle de la planète, adopter des comportements, moins pollueurs, pour réduire les gaz à effet de serre, et ainsi réduire l'intensité de certaines catastrophes naturelles, dont le réchauffement climatique contribue à accroître leur intensité...
Landed back state side from the most incredible trip of my life. Our final night at the Volcano #Fagradalsfjall offered an absolutely stunning scene as a nearly full moon rises above the lava flow exploding into the air. Many more images and video to come.
This is the result of the fire in Thetford forest a couple of weeks ago. The firefighters must have done a great job to stop it spreading any further, as depsite the dense swathes of fir trees and tinder like needles covering the forest floor, the affected areas seemed quite well contained.
The silence was deafening in these areas compared to the usual cacophony of bird and animal noise.