| The Public Domain | Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! Educating Yourself. 5 Ways to Be Smart. Sophism - By Movement / School. The Daily SNOOP Collage: A Hidden Object Game - Hidden Object Games on Shockwave.com. THE BRAIN GAME. The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News & Video - Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com. Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office - Sheriff Michael Couvillon. Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts. Information for the World's Business Leaders - Forbes.com. Ethiopia's blue volcano burns deadly sulphuric gas - environment - 27 May 2014. (Image: Olivier Grunewald) IT'S a volcano, but not as we know it.
This cerulean eruption takes place in the Danakil Depression, a low-lying plain in Ethiopia. The volcano's lava is the usual orange-red – the blue comes from flames produced when escaping sulphuric gases burn. French photographer Olivier Grunewald creates such images without using colour filters or digital enhancement, which is no simple task. To get this shot he had to wait until dusk, when the electric blue flames were visible, but before all the daylight had ebbed away.
Then the wind had to be blowing away from him so he could get close enough. Photographing the similarly sulphurous Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia, where he worked inside the crater, was even more treacherous. Grunewald works in a gas mask to avoid breathing in the deadly fumes – but photographing Kawah Ijen still left him with peeling skin and clothes smelling of rotten eggs for weeks afterwards.
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