What does this formation of craters have to do with water works? The key to the answer is in the origin. Lava flowed over wetlands or shallow lake-bottom sediments near present-day Myvatn Lake in Iceland. The resulting steam pressure built up and blasted holes repeatedly through the same weaknesses in the overlying lava deck. The resulting flying plumes of rock built craters that look like … [Read more...]
Cascade from Orange Rock
On the highest parts of southern Utah's plateau country, characteristically orange desert rock layers have been uplifted thousands of feet into altitudes where lakes and forests cover them. Water draining Navajo Lake has tunneled a conduit through the ochre-toned sediments, rushing out of this rock wall before plunging stepwise for miles through the Dixie National Forest as the North Fork of the … [Read more...]
Frisco Hail
Once it was readily apparent that a supercell I had been tracking was in no substantial danger of producing a tornado, I found a drive-through overhang at a closed bank and backed in. This would let the supercellular vault region (a notorious place for precipitation size sorting of this nature) pass overhead, with windshield protection for my vehicle. The result was significant hail of very … [Read more...]
22-degree Halo
Light from the sun or moon, bent through hexagonal ice crystals in cirrus clouds, often forms a ring removed at a 22-degree angle from the position of its source. The coloring looks similar to a primary rainbow, but in reverse, with reds on the inside grading through yellow and green to blue and purple hues on the outside. However, the process is not the same, since the water state involved is … [Read more...]
Abstractions in an Icelandic Paint Pot
Staring into an Icelandic geothermal mud pond, also known at Yellowstone as a paint pot for obvious reasons, one can become mesmerized at the continually evolving bands of dark and light fluid, deforming and stretching this way and that as the mud flows both horizontally and vertically through the system. Zooming in to the features captures a singular work of natural abstract art, an ephemeral … [Read more...]
Godafoss Sunset
Though modest in height by Icelandic standards, Godafoss (Waterfall of the Gods) rightfully is renowned as once of Iceland's most inspiring and beautiful. That's especially true when paired with one of those lengthy sunsets of a high-latitude summertime. To balance the light for this shot, I employed either a 2- or 3-stop handheld graduated neutral-density filter, wiping off spray with a … [Read more...]
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