Nick Brandt les a photographié, à découvrir dans son nouveau livre, terre ravagée, créatures pétrifiée jonche la région autour du lac en raison de son pH constant de 9 à 10,5 – une alcalinité très basique qui préserve ces créatures pour l’éternité. Situé en Tanzanie, ce lac porte un lourd et mortel secret, tout animal quil le touche devient “pierre”.Ĭe phénomène rare est causée par la composition chimique du lac, et les créatures pétrifiées qu’il laisse derrière lui sont tout droit sorti d’un film d’horreur. Tout animal qui touche ce lac se transforme en pierre. Or, you could go and visit for yourself-but keep a safe distance from the water, please. The rest of the haunting images follow and they feature in Brandt’s book, available here. I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. I unexpectedly found the creatures – all manner of birds and bats – washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land,petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5-an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity. Nick Brandt – Calcified Fish Eagle, damned tanzanie lake
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