{"id":4797,"date":"2013-12-07T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2015-08-12T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:41:44","slug":"damned-lake-in-tanzania-photographer-nick-brandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/damned-lake-in-tanzania-photographer-nick-brandt\/","title":{"rendered":"Damned lake in Tanzania &#8211; photographer Nick Brandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Damned lake in Tanzania &#8211; photographer Nick Brandt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506\" target=\"_blank\">Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone\u00a0<\/a>(article on Gizmodo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"4663bcded5d51d70897db749c0c0dbeb\">There&rsquo;s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret\u2014it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4800\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Brandt - Calcified Fish Eagle, damned tanzanie lake\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nick-Brandt-Tanzania-lake-eagle.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Brandt &#8211; Calcified Fish Eagle, damned tanzanie lake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"1881509e04749d072344ae3177581dd7\">Photographed by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbrandt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">\u00a0Nick Brandt<\/a>\u00a0in his new book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbrandt.com\/Text_page.cfm?pID=2706\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Across the Ravaged Land,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5\u2014an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity. According to Brandt:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-textannotation-id=\"9b19f3950961173be41118f709470504\"><p>I unexpectedly found the creatures &#8211; all manner of birds and bats &#8211; washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake\u2019s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. 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. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.<\/p>\n<p>I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in \u2018living\u2019 positions, bringing them back to \u2018life\u2019, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"f361a8a9537cfe0ba699a9b725540cdd\">The rest of the haunting images follow and they feature in Brandt&rsquo;s book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Across-Ravaged-Land-Nick-Brandt\/dp\/1419709453?amp;ascsub&amp;tag=gizmodoamzn-20&amp;ascsubtag=[type|link[postId|1436606506[asin|1419709453[authorId|5791762745826392378\" target=\"_blank\" data-amazonsubtag=\"[postId|1436606506[asin|1419709453[authorId|5791762745826392378\" data-amazontag=\"gizmodoamzn-20\" data-amazonasin=\"1419709453\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">available here<\/a>. Or, you could go and visit for yourself\u2014but keep a safe distance from the water, please.\u00a0[<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21929360.100-deadly-lake-turns-animals-into-statues.html#.Uks9LHx3gyD\" target=\"_blank\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">New Scientist<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"f361a8a9537cfe0ba699a9b725540cdd\">\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tout animal qui touche ce lac se transforme en pierre.<\/strong><br \/>\nSitu\u00e9 en Tanzanie, ce lac porte un lourd et mortel secret, tout animal quil le touche devient \u00ab\u00a0pierre\u00a0\u00bb.<br \/>\nCe ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne rare est caus\u00e9e par la composition chimique du lac, et les cr\u00e9atures p\u00e9trifi\u00e9es qu&rsquo;il laisse derri\u00e8re lui sont tout droit sorti d&rsquo;un film d&rsquo;horreur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Brandt <\/strong>les a photographi\u00e9, \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>dans son nouveau livre, terre ravag\u00e9e, cr\u00e9atures p\u00e9trifi\u00e9e jonche la r\u00e9gion autour du lac en raison de son pH constant de 9 \u00e0 10,5 &#8211; une alcalinit\u00e9 tr\u00e8s basique qui pr\u00e9serve ces cr\u00e9atures pour l&rsquo;\u00e9ternit\u00e9 .<\/p>\n<p>Selon Brandt : J&rsquo;ai d\u00e9couvert ses cr\u00e9atures &#8211; toutes sortes d&rsquo;oiseaux et de chauves-souris &#8211; \u00e9chou\u00e9s le long de la rive du lac Natron dans le nord de la Tanzanie. Comme les oiseaux qui s&rsquo;\u00e9crasent sur les fen\u00eatres vitr\u00e9es, ils s&rsquo;\u00e9crasent dans le lac. La soude et le sel font que les cr\u00e9atures se calcifie, et reste parfaitement conserv\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>J&rsquo;ai pris ces cr\u00e9atures que j&rsquo;ai trouv\u00e9 sur le rivage, et les ai plac\u00e9 dans des conditions \u00ab de vie \u00bb , afin de les ramener \u00e0 la \u00abvie\u00bb , en quelque sorte. R\u00e9anim\u00e9es, vivantes encore dans la mort.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbrandt.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damned lake in Tanzania &#8211; photographer Nick Brandt. Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone\u00a0(article on Gizmodo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,220,700,699,16,178,236],"tags":[4003,82,2203,2202,321,2208,2206,2204,2199,2209,2207,52,2198,318,4009,19,182,2205,2201,2200],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hYQX-1fn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6848,"url":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/animal-sculptures-nick-mackman\/","url_meta":{"origin":4797,"position":0},"title":"Animal sculptures by Nick Mackman","author":"LilaVert I-I","date":"04\/05\/2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Animal sculptures by Nick Mackman. 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