Nyiragongo – aktivní vulkán
All Photos © Carsten Peter/National Geographic. Above: The lava at Nyiragongo is made of an alkali-rich volcanic rock; its unusual composition may be a factor in the lava’s fluidity.
Photographer Carsten Peter descended into the fiery center of Nyiragongo—an active volcano towering over a city of one million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—for the April issue of National Geographic magazine. See Carsten and his team explore the depths of Nyiragongo in Man vs. Volcano on the National Geographic channel. To see more of Carsten Peter’s work click here.
A member of the expedition walks on the caldera’s cooled lava floor, turned red by the reflected glow of the lake. “Down here you feel the volcano,” says photographer Carsten Peter. “It’s a low-frequency rumbling that pulses through your body – like being inside a giant subwoofer.”
Traders ferry logs and charcoal 12 miles from the forests around Nyiragongo to Goma, which continues to swell with refugees fleeing the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s war-torn east. The plume rising from the mountain reminds residents of yet another threat: eruption.
Many of the porters were local women, who huddled in the cold at the crater rim.
Rising gas bubbles explode, splattering lava up to 60 feet in the air over Nyiragongo’s fiery lake.
Constant bubbling sends waves of lava lapping over the rim. Scientists aren’t sure of the lake’s depth, though recent lava samples indicate the magma originated in the Earth’s mantle more than 46 miles below.
Photographer Carsten Peter tests the thermal suit that Sims used to get close to the lava lake. “It can protect you from the radiant heat, but if you get hit with a lava splatter, the force will likely kill you,” he says. For 30 years Peter has explored volcanoes around the world. “Seeing at close range the primal forces that shaped the planet can be hypnotic. You cannot allow yourself to fall under a volcano’s spell, especially one as unpredictable as Nyiragongo. That can be a fatal mistake.”
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Ohromující fotografie zvířat uvnitř dělohy
These amazing embryonic animal photographs of dolphins, sharks, dogs, penguins, cats and elephants are from a new National Geographic Documentary called “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”. The show’s producer, Peter Chinn, used a combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth. They are the most detailed embryonic animal pictures ever seen.
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Fotografie od Amel Kerkeni
Amel Kerkeni has always felt like projecting her emotions and ideas, which made her study acting and theatre at an early age. Little by little she felt the urge of freezing ideas, moments and emotions in pictures, and she was 14 when she discovered photography for real when taking her first dark room class. Since then she has never stopped shooting. She says this about her work: “- My artistic approach is essentially symbolic and expressive, and the creation of an atmosphere is my main motivation.”
Amel’s work has been published in several online publications, and more is coming as she’s keeping busy at the moment. Being based in Lille (France), she often travels to Paris to shoot and gather inspiration. She says she has no rules while creating, and can find herself inspired by pretty much anything: “- Everything can be source of inspiration, theater, cinema, book, a sentence, a person, music, a light, a story… I have no rules!”
Here’s some of her work:
Mrkněte i na její portfolio here.
Fotografie od Henri Cartier-Bressona
Albert Camus, Paris, 1944.
Coney Island, New York, 1946.
Romania, 1975.
Naples, Italy, 1960.
A football game, Michigan vs. Northwestern, 1960.
At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966.
Uzbekistan, 1954.
Visitors from kolkhozy to the eleventh-century Alaverdi monastery, 1972.
Improvised canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol, 1954.
The Arbat, Moscow, 1972.
Chelny, Russia, 1973.
Boston, 1947.
New York, 1935.
An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. He keeps his hands in his pockets to demonstrate that his protest is nonviolent, 1961.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, 1960.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, 1946.
Dessau, Germany, April, 1945.
Nehru Announces Gandhi’s Death, Birla House, Delhi, 1948.
Dessau, Germany, April, 1945.
World’s Fair, Brussels, 1958.
Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1946.
New York, 1960.
Bankers Trust, New York, 1960.
Near Strasbourg, France, 1944.
The arrival of a boat carrying refugees from Europe reunites a mother and son who had been separated throughout the war, 1946.
Communist students demonstrate against the black market. Behind them is the Soon Bank, owned by Chiang Kai-shek’s father-in-law, 1949.
McCann-Erickson Agency, Madison Avenue, New York, 1959.
New York, 1947.
Daughters of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, 1960.
San Francisco, 1960.
Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Paris, 1945.
Waiting in Red Square to visit Lenin’s Tomb, 1954.
The Great Leap Forward, China, 1958.
Printer, Paris, 1969.
Hamburg, Germany. The sign reads, “Looking for any kind of work.” 1952-1953.
Automobile Show, Paris, 1968.
Brie, France, 1968.
La Châtre, France, 1968.
Near Rennes, France, 1960.
La Villette, Paris, 1929.
Truman Capote, New Orleans, 1947.
At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966.
Visit of General de Gaulle, Munich, 1962.
Pause Between Two Poses, 1989.
Martine’s Legs, 1967.
Bernay, France, 1960.
ZIS Factory, Moscow. ZIS is an acronym for “Factory named for Stalin.” 1954.
Afgánistán v říjnu 2010
With the U.S. troop surge now nearing its peak in Afghanistan, more than 150,000 US and international troops are now on the ground. 64 of those troops lost their lives this month, as forces pushed hard into the southern Kandahar Province, traditionally the heartland of the Taliban. At the same time, preliminary discussions are beginning to take place between the inner circle of President Hamid Karzai and members of the Quetta shura, the leadership group that oversees the Taliban war effort inside Afghanistan. Part of the current coalition strategy is to continue applying pressure on the Taliban in the fields, and encouraging their leaders to participate in hoped-for settlement talks. Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on
A KC-135R Stratotanker with the 92nd Air Refueling Wing passes over snow-capped mountain ranges in Afghanistan on Oct. 16, 2010. The Fairchild-based KC-135R Stratotanker and crew, one of about a dozen of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing’s tankers currently deployed in Kyrgyzstan, refueled six fighter jets Saturday during the six-hour combat sortie. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany) #
Chief of Defense of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Sverker Göranson, place the Medal of Honor on the coffin of Kenneth Wallin, killed in action on an ISAF mission in Mazar-i Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday, during a ceremony at Arna military airport north of Stockholm, Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010. Wallin was the 6th Swedish soldier killed in action in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Fredrik Sandberg / SCANPIX) #
U.S. Army Specialist Thomas Adam Moffitt, 21, of Wichita, Kansas, was killed on October 23rd, 2010 in Paktika Province, in Afghanistan. He was an infantryman assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. Moffitt joined the Army in February of 2009 and arrived at Fort Campbell four months ago. Survivors include his parents, John and Brenda Moffitt, of Wichita. (AP Photo/Fort Campbell) #
A discarded military boot lies in a field where the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division was recently attacked October 14, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Soldiers conducted a reconnaissance movement around the field, where five days ago one of their fellow soldiers lost both his legs to a buried IED mine planted by insurgents. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Randolph, Massachusetts, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company, smokes a cigarette in his bunk surrounded by photographs of his wife Melinda and their daughter Madison, 2, after a night of rain at the remote outpost of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, October 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) #
The goal keeper of the Afghan women’s national football team looks on before the start of a friendly match against the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) female football team at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. The Afghan team scored the only goal of the match during the first half and held their nerve to win the match 1-0. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) #
U.S. Navy corpsman in the Batallion Aid Station (BAS) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge treat a 13-year-old Afghan boy on October 21, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. The boy was brought to the clinic in the morning by the Afghan National Police (ANP) after he had the lower part of his jaw blown off in a blast the previous evening. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
The repatriation ceremony for Corporal David Barnsdale, 24, from Tring in Hertfordshire takes place at RAF Lyneham on October 28, 2010 in Chippenham, United Kingdom. Cpl Barnsdale was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device on Tuesday October 19, 2010 during an operation that was taking place to the east of Gereshk. He was employed as part of a Royal Engineer Search Team and had deployed to Afghanistan with 33 Engineer Regiment. (Sgt. Ian Forsyth /Crown Copyright via Getty Images) #
An Afghan Kuchi girl covers her face as she attends a class in a tent in front of the ruins of the Darlaman Palace which was destroyed during the civil war, on the outskirts of Kabul on October 27, 2010. More than 300 Afghan Kuchi tribal nomads settled into the palace several months ago under the protection of Afghan paramilitary police who use the ruins as a makeshift patrol base, after being driven from a nearby area in Kabul during a bout of ethnic riots earlier this summer. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) #
United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Francisco R. Jackson’s son Giovanni Jackson salutes during his father’s burial at the Rosehill Cemetery on October 30, 2010 in Linden, New Jersey. LCpl. Jackson, who was from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was killed while participating in combat operations in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images) #
Lyrics from a Misfits song, „Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?“ decorate the helmet of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Eckert of Oak Lawn, Illinois, attached to India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment while on patrol near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 15, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. The Marines of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Dam on the Helmand River. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
Shafiqa, 14, waits for treatment at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 26, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #
A leishmaniasis patient gets a painful injection of Sodium Stibogluconate at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 25, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis plagues Afghanistan’s poor, who often sleep on the floor, and the disease isn’t a priority for the government and its aid donors who are grappling with infant mortality, tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. The most common form of the disease is not fatal, but causes untold misery and scarring on faces, stigmatizing children who are excluded at school and making it hard for girls to find husbands. According to WHO, there were an estimated 65,000 reported cases in 2009. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #
U.S. Marine Cpl. Alexander Beam of McCook, NE with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment is comforted after coming in from a patrol where his fellow squad members LCpl. Francisco Jackson of Elizabeth, NJ was killed by an improvised explosive device near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 19, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
Italian Alpine soldiers carry the coffins of the four soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Saturday when a bomb exploded as their military convoy passed insurgents and the troops came under fire, upon their arrival at the Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) #
Afghan laborers work at a brick-making kiln on October 13, 2010 in the countryside outside Herat in western Afghanistan. Laborers earn very little in a ten hour day at the kiln. The majority of brick-makers are internal refugees displaced from their provinces after insurgencies. Child labor is common in brick-making facilities where parents use their children to assist with easier jobs. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) #
In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, US Army soldier Specialist Shaea Koyj, from New Jersey, burns a tub of excrement at an outpost in Zhari district, Kandahar province The Scouts’ mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) #
Afghan bride Zahara, 24, is held by the groom, Gulam Ali as they leave for the wedding ceremony in a taxi October 14, 2010 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. At local beauty salons, behind drawn curtains, isolated from the males, Afghan women spend hours getting ready for engagement parties and weddings. In accordance with Afghan culture the men are required to be segregated from the women with the exception of the bride and groom. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) #
A „Dustoff“ medevac helicopter, part of Task Force Shadow from the 101st Airborne Division, evacuates wounded U.S. Army soldier PFC Zachary Bosserdet of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry in Kandahar province, Afghanistan September 28, 2010. Bosserdet was evacuated after a roadside bomb struck his unit while on patrol. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) #
U.S. Air Force pararescuemen ride in the back of their medevac helicopter with the American flag-draped bodies of U.S. soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on October 10th, 2010. The pararescuemen and pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons had responded to the attack which killed two American soldiers and wounded three others. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) #
Capt. Nicholas Stout of Lake Orion, Michigan (right) admonishes an Afghan man who stole a pay ticket from a child to try to garner payment sponsored by the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army that employs local village men and children in manual labor October 9, 2010 near Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. Men are paid up to $20 a day; children are paid $5 to $10, mostly for work cleaning up trash and clearing ditches. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
Family and friends carry the coffin of British aid worker Linda Norgove in Uig on the Isle of Lewis on October 26, 2010 in Lewis, Scotland. Miss Norgrove, who was 36, had been kidnapped in Afghanistan while working for US aid group DAI; she was fatally wounded during a rescue attempt by US forces. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
