(via My Modern Met) #Africa #animals #lakesĭo stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. All photos copyright Nick Brandt, courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. These photos and many more are included in Brandt’s new book, Across the Ravaged Land, a third and final volume of photography documenting the disappearance of animals in Eastern Africa. 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.” And this time he brings yet another amazing story from Lake Natron, a lake which turns dead.
Photographer Nick Brandt has been exploring east Africa for a couple of decades now, bridging the lives of local people and animals with the rest of the world through his captivating monochrome shots. Brandt tells NewScientist, “I could not help but photograph them. Deadly Lake in Africa Turns Animals Into Stone. Birds and other small mammals that end up in the water gradually become calcified, turned to stone in the deadly water. Although the lake is deadly to most animals, a unique ecosystem has developed in this harsh environment, creating fascinating. While working Africa photographer Nick Brandt stopped by the lake to discover several dead animals on the shoreline. Animals who enter the water are almost certainly doomed, save certain kinds of fish that have evolved to survive in such a caustic environment.
The lake has an extremely high soda and salt content and its pH is. Temperatures in the lake can rise to 140 ☏ (60 ☌) and the alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5, almost as alkaline as ammonia. Photos taken at Lake Natron in Tanzania of dead animals seemingly turned to stone. Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the harshest environments on Earth.
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