Like your photo very much because of the blue tones, the dreamy atmosphere. Feels as if I were there. I would like the red accent a bit off centre to create more tension and depth. But nevertheless: well done.
this is an old card postal, not a photo of mine. You see everything from a great height (also look at my photo called "Secret Circle") and the volcano left the rocks cut like forming a circle. The sea is all around the island.
The eruption of Santorini in Greece in 1,650 B.C. was one of the largest (VEI=6) in the last 10,000 years. About 7 cubic miles (30 cubic km) of rhyodacite magma was erupted. The plinian column during the initial phase of the eruption was about 23 miles (36 km) high. The removal of such a large volume of magma caused the volcano to collapse, producing a c aldera. Ash fell over a large area in the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey. The eruption probably caused the end of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.
Santorini is complex of overlapping shield volcanoes. Basalt and andesite lava flows that make the shield are exposed in the cliff below the town of Phira. Some of t he cliff is thought to be a caldera wall associated with an eruption 21,000 year ago. Druitt and Francaviglia (1992) found evidence of at least 12 large explosive eruptions in the last 200,000 years at Santorin i. The white layer at the top is the Minoan tephra from the 1,650 B.C. eruption. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker.
Exposure of about 150 feet (50 m) of Minoan tephra. The tephra consists of pumice, pyroclastic surge, and pyroclastic flow deposits. Photography copyrighted by Ro bert Decker.
Akroteri, a Minoan city on the south part of Thera, is being excavated. About 3-6 feet (1-2 m) of ash fell on the city which had a population of about 30,000. The residents appear to have been successfully evacuated prior to the eruption. No bodies hav e been found in the ash like those at Vesuvius. Archeologists also reported that movable objects had been taken from the city. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker.
The Kameni Islands formed after the caldera. Eleven eruptions since 197 B.C. have made the two islands. The most recent eruption at Santorini was in 1950 on Nea Kameni, the northern island. The eruption was phreatic and lasted less than a month. It co nstructed a dome and produced lava flows. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker. For a description of the tectonics of the Hellenic arc and the Aegean Sea visit the volcanic island of Nisyros. Click here, if you are wondering if the eruption of Santorini was related to the lost city of Atlantis. Click here, for a Space Shuttle photo of Thera.
Sources of Information: Decker, R., and Decker, B., 1989, Volcanoes: W.H. Freeman, New York, 285 p. Doumas, C.G., 1983, Thera: Pompeii of the ancient Aegean: London, Thames&Hudson, 168 p. Druitt, T.H., and Francaviglia, V., 1992, Caldera formation on Santorini and the physiography of the islands in the late Bronze Age: Bulletin of Volcanology, v.54, p. 484-493.
No, it is not LA it is IA , and means nothing. It is one of the most cosmopolitan places in Greece but also has energy worth feeling... I send some info. I work as an interpreter or tour leader during the summers, so I have the chance to meet all places again and again, take photos and record legends of the places told by old people, and then I write my stories.
The eruption of Santorini in Greece in 1,650 B.C. was one of the largest (VEI=6) in the last 10,000 years. About 7 cubic miles (30 cubic km) of rhyodacite magma was erupted. The plinian column during the initial phase of the eruption was about 23 miles (36 km) high. The removal of such a large volume of magma caused the volcano to collapse, producing a c aldera. Ash fell over a large area in the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey. The eruption probably caused the end of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.
Santorini is complex of overlapping shield volcanoes. Basalt and andesite lava flows that make the shield are exposed in the cliff below the town of Phira. Some of t he cliff is thought to be a caldera wall associated with an eruption 21,000 year ago. Druitt and Francaviglia (1992) found evidence of at least 12 large explosive eruptions in the last 200,000 years at Santorin i. The white layer at the top is the Minoan tephra from the 1,650 B.C. eruption. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker.
Exposure of about 150 feet (50 m) of Minoan tephra. The tephra consists of pumice, pyroclastic surge, and pyroclastic flow deposits. Photography copyrighted by Ro bert Decker.
Akroteri, a Minoan city on the south part of Thera, is being excavated. About 3-6 feet (1-2 m) of ash fell on the city which had a population of about 30,000. The residents appear to have been successfully evacuated prior to the eruption. No bodies hav e been found in the ash like those at Vesuvius. Archeologists also reported that movable objects had been taken from the city. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker.
The Kameni Islands formed after the caldera. Eleven eruptions since 197 B.C. have made the two islands. The most recent eruption at Santorini was in 1950 on Nea Kameni, the northern island. The eruption was phreatic and lasted less than a month. It co nstructed a dome and produced lava flows. Photography copyrighted by Robert Decker. For a description of the tectonics of the Hellenic arc and the Aegean Sea visit the volcanic island of Nisyros. Click here, if you are wondering if the eruption of Santorini was related to the lost city of Atlantis. _________________________ Sources of Information: Decker, R., and Decker, B., 1989, Volcanoes: W.H. Freeman, New York, 285 p. Doumas, C.G., 1983, Thera: Pompeii of the ancient Aegean: London, Thames&Hudson, 168 p. Druitt, T.H., and Francaviglia, V., 1992, Caldera formation on Santorini and the physiography of the islands in the late Bronze Age: Bulletin of Volcanology, v.54, p. 484-493.
how intriguing..a place with blue light. Sometimes the light gets blue here too but i can't say i ever felt like shooting it. Who knows, maybe i will see it differently next time because of you. Yes, i imagine if this is a place famous for its sunsets they must truly be like Hollywood productions and you personally prefer the smaller Indie films with blue light. What i love is the name of the island. At first i thought it was a mistake. la. That's the name?? la?? How muscial, how gentle, how definitive. La. Thanks for the blue light, Mary..i will never see blue light without thinking of you. kat~
You are right , the pot is a fatal mistake (laughs) I can see it myself!! This place is Ia, in Santorini, an island of the Aegean sea in Greece. Thousands of people go there for this light...They form crouds to see the sunset as something happens with the sun and the sky becomes red and orange or takes shades of red I have never seen!! But it is not the sunset I like there...All these crowds frigten me...What I adore in Ia is this blue light that you can find everywhere... this poetic melancholy of Nowhereland. I love this photo for this reason... I go there often to write, and is one of my paradises...(only that I appear after the sunset...) This is the place where I had chosen to read "The Ocean" by Alessandro Barrico... the bluest book I have ever read....
what delicate light. It's remarkable the way you pack so much atmosphere into relatively simple images. i can almost breathe this one. i can almost feel the air on my legs. The only thing i find wanting is the flower pot. The bottom is cut off and that bothers me. Otherwise, dreamy textures and juicy blue tones. Yum. kat~
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