Nature Archives - Florian Wizorek

Sep

04

2014

Landscapes

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Epupa Falls,Kunene,Namibia

: Mokoro Ride through the Okavango Delta in rainy season

: The ice cave inside the glacier at the bottom of Mutnovsky volcano (Kamchatka)

: Giant star dune of Dasht-e Lut desert in Iran with Kalout rocks (Yardangs resp. wind moutonnées)

: Southern summit of Annapurna massif at night and with star sky

: The Epupa Falls of Kunene River in northwest Namibia allow visitors to come very close

: Single petrified tree (thorn acacia) standing in the expanse of Deadvlei in Namib desert of Namibia

: Autumn-coloured tundra in front of Vilyuchinsky volcano on Kamchatka (Russia)

: The Rainbow Falls called part of the Victoria Falls of African river Zambezi

: Night shot of a Kalout rock (Yardang) in Dasht-e Lut desert (Iran) with star sky and large star dune

: Nearly 7000 metres high Machapuchare (Fish Tail) at night. The mountain piles up at the Mardi Himal Trek towards Annapurna

: Only very rarely clouds survive in the desert to provide the colours of the setting sun a reflecting stage (Dasht-e Lut, Iran)

: Das Tuvalu-Archipel liegt nur wenige Meter über dem Meeresspiegel des Pazifiks

: Clouds and altitude let the forest of the Himalaya giants appear enchanted

: At Dead Vlei, a small salt pan in the Namib Desert, the witnesses of former life still stand

: Two young coconut sprouts swaying in the wind of young cyclone “Ian”

: Die massigen Moeraki Boulders in Neuseeland

: Sunrise at the almost 7000m tall Fish Tail, the Machhapuchhare (माछापुच्छ्रे हिमाल)

: The Dead Forest at Tolbachik tells the story of the large fissure eruption in the 1970’s (Russia)

: View from Tongariro volcano summit to Blue Lake (New Zealand)

: A couple of Boulders Beach-based jackass penguins swimming in False Bay being staged by the landscape of southern Cape Peninsula

: Like a green belt life-giving Orange River cuts through the desert of the Richtersveld furnace

: The double peak of Mount Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain

: Late evening vibe of the setting sun and dense clouds mythically staging Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon and its large ice chunks

: The forest at the base of Annapurna massif is often shrouded in clouds

: Star dune in Dasht-e Lut desert in Iran with a Kalout rock (Yardang) in the foreground

: Early sunrise at the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu volcano

: At Dead Vlei, a small salt pan in the Namib Desert, umbrella thron acacia’s give evidence of former life in the desert

: Early sun of a new day ablazes summit and glaciers of Annapurna South

: Großer Brocken glaziales Eises schwimmt und spiegelt sich in der Jökulsárlón Gletscherlagune an einem wolkigen Abend

: Parts of lake “Lac Yate” on New Caledonia became victim of the climate change

: Like cream on cake this cloud hovers above an Icelandic table mountain

: Icelandic waterfall Goðafoss at midnight sun

: Since hundreds of years petriefied thron acacia trees stand in Deadvlei, a salt pan amidst Namib desert dunes

: In the arid furnace of Namib-Naukluft some obstinate trees testify the underground presence of water

: Ice block floating in Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon Iceland

: The rock formation ‘Three Rondavels’ (three round huts) in eastern South Africa

: View from Coromandel peninsula towards offshore islands

: A beach of Golden Bay at the northern tip of New Zealand’s south island

: Cape Farewell at the northern tip of New Zealand’s south island

: Mount Taranaki volcano, an exposed elevation in the Southeast of New Zealand’s north island

: A stranded ship in the West Fjords of Iceland

: Being fully embraced by South Africa the Kingdom of Lesotho is one of the highest situated countries in the world

: A river created a cave leading through the ice of Mutnovsky volcano glacier

: Cragged ice and crevasses show how rapidly Fox glacier moves down the mountain

: Steintürmchen am Lake Tekapo

: Sunset on the Kamchatka peninsula

: New life in the form of small mushrooms breaks through volcanic ash

: Large chunks of clear glacial ice float and mirror in Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon on a cloudy evening

: A small hut in the Tolbachik ash plain provides shelter

: The mountainous background of Doubtful Sound makes anchoring special

: The Pacific cloud spangled sky above Palau archipelago

: High plain in the Ethiopian Simien Mountains

: Lobelia growing on a Plateau in the Simien Mountains (Ethiopia)

: Road in northern Iceland

: Ice block floating in Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon Iceland

: The Sun Voyager monument Sólfar in Reykjavik (Iceland) at midnight sun

Sep

04

2014

Wildlife

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Young Cheetah eating

: Only 2-3 metres away this young Cheetah tucks into a piece of Springbok

: Drone image of a wild female leopard and its natural environment

: Awarded at Golden Turtle photo contest 2015 – Dead elephant bull surrounded by selfie-taking locals // Chobe NP, Botswana, 2015

: Lions males spending the heat of the day in the shade of a tree

: An australasian gannet couple celebrating its reunion by the help of kelp (New Zealand)

: Adult jackass pengiun and its chicks in their breeding burrow on Boulders Beach in South Africa

: Drone image of an elephant bull Elefantenbullen in the Okavango Delta

: An African elephant bull spends the heat of the noon in the shade of a tree

: Male hippo showing its impressive set of teeth

: Juvenile Impala bucks fighting to win the females’ favour

: Amidst the mass of birds at Lambert’s Bay colony a cape gannet looks for its nest

: A couple of jackass penguins grooming each other

: Close-up of horns and face of an African buffalo male

: Coloured rock agama enjoying the sunset at Namibia’s quiver tree forest

: Two White Rhino grazing

: Flock of juvenile African ostrich walking through the bush

: Baboon looking curiously through boughs

: Puffin living at the western coast of Iceland at midnight sunlight

: Curiously a few weeks old zebra foal peeps through the grass of Etosha pan

: Sea lion puppy, portrayed at the Abel Tasman national park

: A very rare Cagou cursorial bird in the rain forest of New Caledonia

: Frogs sitting on a bullrush raft

: Young brown bears playing at Tolbachik on Kamchatka (Russia)

: Tibetan (Himalaya) yellow-billed magpie eating tinfoil carelessly thrown away in the forest of Bhutan

: Melanesian Megapode

: Male Eider duck

: A Buller’s albatros with prey

: Monitor lizard on Rakata Island, part of Krakatoa archipelago (Indonesia)

: Marmot on Kamchatka searching for food

: Flying foxes spending their day sleeping in a Tao tree (Tonga)

: Close-up of an Australasian Gannet (New Zealand)

: Fantail living in New Zealand

: Wild living Takahe bird (New Zealand)

: Southern Oyster Catcher

: Buller’s albatros starting

: Brown bears are Kamchatka’s tallest land carnivores

: Golden jellyfish (Mastigias cf. papua) in Palau’s Jellyfish Lake

: Opossum brothers (Papua New Guinea)

: Young Geladas (also bleeding-heart baboon) playing

: Ethiopian hawk with prey

: Black-legged kittywake nesting in Iceland’s West Fjords

: Razorbill at the western coast of Iceland

: Two juvenile yellow-legged gulls fight for territory and food (not in the picture)

: A real Beetle, captured walking in Morrocan Sahara

Sep

03

2014

Volcanic

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Strombolian Eruption

: Moderate Strombolian eruption of lava dome inside crater of Ibu volcano on Halmahera in Indonesia

: During sunset the summit of Mt. Ngauruhoe cone get shrouded by a lenticular storm cloud (New Zealand)

: Lava lake of Erta Ale flows over as it gets illuminated by full moon (Ethiopia)

: Colourful Painter’s Palette, a geothermal pond of the Wai-o-Tapu thermal wonderland (New Zealand)

: Sunrise at the Tengger caldera and its volcanoes Bromo and Semeru (Indonesia)

: A sulphur miner carries ~80kg of the yellow element out of Ijen volcano’s crater (Indonesia)

: Giant Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano peeks through the clouds of Kamchatka (Russia)

: Yasur volcano on Tanna island in Vanuatu shoots lava into the night sky

: The volcanic appearances of Dallol put human perception to a test (Ethiopia)

: Inside the crater of Bezymianny volcano on Kamchatka an active lava dome steams (Russia)

: At sunrise the north side of Tolbachik volcano reflects itself in a moutain lake (Russia)

: Strong and water vapour-driven degassing of Ibu volanco’s lava dome

: Avachinskaya Sopka volcano at sunset (Kamchatka)

: Tavurvur volcano in Papua New Guinea ejects an ash eruption

: Lava lake of Erta Ale volcano with a small Strombolion explosion (Ethiopia)

: Low hanging clouds fly Tongariro volcano complex as sun sets and moon rises (New Zealand)

: The imploded Dallol volcano is hydrothermally so active, that is ejects acid (Ethiopia)

: Die Explosion einer vulkanischen Gasblase lässt Lava durch die Gegend fliegen

: Sunrise stages the multicoloured crater lakes of Kelimutu volcano (Indonesia)

: Hot ash cloud and smaller eruption column of Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in Indonesia

: A piece of solidified lava sinks into the magma lake of Erta Ale (Ethiopia)

: View from the climb up to Red Crater to the low plain in front of Ngauruhoe cone (New Zealand)

: Crater lake of Ruapehu volcano (New Zealand)

: The mud volcano at the geothermally active Námaskarð region in Iceland

: Inside the crater of Kamchatka-based Mutnovsky complex volcano a giant glacier meets volcanic activity (Russia)

: Star sky above Gorely volcano on Kamchatka (Russia)

: Sun rises at the Sunda Strait located volcano Krakatoa (Indonesia)

: Volcanic chemicals contaminate the sea at the bottom of Tavurvur volcano

: Mutnovsky volcano on Kamchatka (Russia)

: Sunrise at the southern side of Tolbachik volcano on Kamchatka (Russia)

: Kamchatka’s Valley of Giants is formed by volcanoes Klyuchevskoy, Kamen and Bezymianny

: Defying hot avalanches dead trees stand in Shiveluch volcano PF delta (Russia)

: Close-up of the hot ash cloud of Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in Indonesia

: Vanuatu-based Yasur volcano on Tanna island erupts Strombolian

: Lava dome of Shiveluch volcano on Kamchatka shrouds itself in sunset illuminated clouds (Russia)

: Summit ov Klyuchevskoy volcano on Kamchatka (Russia)

: Fumaroles inside Mutnovsky

: Strombolian eruption of Yasur volcano

: Hydrothermally created crystals at Dallol volcano (Ethiopia)

: The western area of Dallol volcano is shaped by travertines (Ethiopia)

: The maze of colours at imploded geothermally active Dallol volcano (Ethiopia)

: Imploded Dallol volcano is located in Danakil desert, one of the hottest places on Earth (Ethiopia)

: Hydrothermally active imploded volcano Dallol brings various colourful minerals and salts to daylight (Ethiopia)

: Leirhnjúkur mud volcano at the Krafla region (Iceland)

: Beautiful clouds cannot hide the fact of Tavurvur’s smelly sulphur exhalations

: The vicinity of Tavurvur volcano in Papua New Guinea is often geothermally active

: Cone of strato volcano Yasur on the Vanuatu island of Tanna

: Crater of Kamchatka-based Gorely volcano with its large fumarole (Russia)

: Play of colours and shapes of the Timanfaya eruption main cone on Lanazarote (Canary Islands)