that lake Natron managed to impress me once more, but on a really high level this time. The patterns and colors change regularly, many combinations are open out there.
But orange and black with a fish scale pattern is extremely rare, I witnessed that feat only twice in 12 years. So that really made my day during the last set of Flying Medical Clinics tour in Loliondo and around this week. All these pictures were shot within one turn with the Cessna 206, less than 2 minutes. Further away, the colors got the standard red hue on this classic pattern.
Orange or amber re not rare colors on the lake but then the patterns are wider and irregular and in slightly deeper waters.
a feeling of 3D sometimes…like coral.
and below is the first sighting 10 years ago (on the excellent but defunct) film Agfa Ultron 50.
my guess is that the wind is constantly blowing from one direction, pushing the very shallow water towards the same side of the scaled shape. Humidity must have a different impact on the salts, hence the different colors. And I suppose again that I’ve shot this old picture at a different time of process to explain the black predominance…
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