spookyloop:Lake Natron in Tanzania photographed by Nick Brandt for his book, Across the Ravaged Land
spookyloop:Lake Natron in Tanzania photographed by Nick Brandt for his book, Across the Ravaged Land. “I unexpectedly found the creatures – all manner of birds and bats – washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. 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.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. Reanimated, alive again in death.”(x) -- source link
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