Karlbark's Fotothing

looks like a scene on mars :-)))

great one !!!

well done and intresting

Great contrast!:)

Fantastic place .. Unbelievable :o) .. Great shot !!!

Wonderful place... and agree with Junne... :-))

Great and interesting Karl!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful work !

What an interesting place - I also agree with Junne - great capture :)

And here's to a productive Earth Day 2008. =)

strange combination of these huge steamers and people that are relaxing beside them

Excellent capture...impressive scene!

Nice capture.

Wonderful image and scan my friend, from the early days of the Blue Lagoon ;-)))

Beautiful cotrast, wonderful shot !!

Amazing place, well taken!

mmmmm...nice!!!

Wow Karl, thought you don't get out much... What a great shot - Celebrate Earth Day April 22nd 2008 ;-)

Great picture Karl! In Iceland you keep your houses warm with those hot lagoons. Is that so? And of course it´s great place to swim and relax. Very clever heating system!

Amazing shot and place my friend!!

Nice capture.

Very interesting place!

Wonderful capture.
Wish I had geothermal.
:))

VERY GOOD PHOTO !

Marjuska; that is exactly right. -Or, well, the (very!) hot water used to heat our houses is not taken from the pools themselves, but rather pumped up from deep underground.
Here is an earlier upload of mine with the Nesjavellir geothermal powerstation in the background: http://www.fotothing.com/karlbark/photo/abde38a8a7723ebc216ce441d9d3893c/
The Nesjavellir plant produces hot water for the whole Reykjavík area, and also electricity!

A few links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesjavellir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
and http://www.bluelagoon.com/ (This is the lagoon in the picture above).

-K

Cooler: Hehe yes, and I even have some older pictures from the early eighties when there was nothing there but the power station.
No roads or paths to get in the lagoon to bathe. We just had to clamber over the jagged lava to get into the lagoon :-D
Unfortunately those pictures were taken on my very first camera - a Kodak Instamatic! And they are quite small. -I haven´t found the negatives, but I might try to scan the photos anyway...
-K

Superb

FANTÁSTICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing capture.

...love the contrast of technology and the carefree attitude of just soaking in hot water...what do you use to scan the images into your computer?

Absolutely brilliant-- just love it

feeling very comfortable :))

Hairlessman;
I just bought (about a month ago) a Canon CanoScan 8800F.
It can scan slides in frames, 120 film and 3(I checked out some reviews before I bought it and the reports about it were very positive, pretty much all over :-)
-K

Thanks Karl...I've been looking for one...I'll check it out...

Crazy image, but really interesting and well composed! =)

surrealist too !

This is really good !! Nice work !!

good, good,and good. special one

Very science fiction looking, I like it a lot.

This looks so unreal, a factory poluting the water and people swimming in it. I think if you just post this on the internet no one believes it's a normal shot. Good job, Karl!

Thank you elbeaver, but there is no pollution. I don´t think anybody would bathe there if there was! :-D
It is a geothermal plant - the (very) hot water spouts up from deep underground and they then use it to heat our houses etc. :-)
-K

Thanks for sharing those pictures Karl, they are all things that we never see in Ireland.

And the same goes for me, Joe.
One of the absolutely best things about Fotothing, I think, is that one can "travel" around the world and see pictures of "weird and wonderful places". Such as Ireland, f.ex. ;-D
(hehe)
-K

Great shot!!! and an excellent energy resource... unfortunatly there are only few places on the world where this can be done without wasting the resource (the water can run out as happened in the US geothermal plant)... Luckily the iceland people take good care of their natural resources and have utilised this to the max. A glorious example for many nations that there is more possible than using charcoal, oil and nuclear energy... A big thumbs up for iceland!!!.

Thank you qpidoremix :-)
But you´re quite right of course about there not being very many places where geothermal energy is as abundant as here in Iceland. And let me tell you, -it really is a great thing to have! Heating one´s house is, of course, quite cheap. We never run out of warm water here...one can take as long showers as one wants :-) When I worked in Copenhagen for one summer a few years ago, I had to learn to shower in a totally new way, because we were 3 guys who shared one (unusually) small water heater.
I had gotten showering with minimal use of water down to an art before the summer was out! :-D
-Strange, by the way, the incident you mentioned with the water running out! Sounds very odd indeed - I hadn´t heard about that.
-K

was on discovery channel docu about iceland and US geothermal energy.

here on curacao nobody has a heater!!...we all use "cold" water (its 28 degrees from the tap) and nobody heats his home ever...we need to cool down the place and have a lot of aircos!!!! surprisingly there isnt much use of solar energy. when Im going to buy a house, Im definitly going to have the roof full of solar panels! windmills work great here but are mainly used for pumping up water (water is very expensive here!!), we have a very steady north-east wind...but as I said unfortunatly most energy is oil based here :-( south west of the oil refinery is very poluted area... couple weeks ago they could not burn the smoke, children became sick at school and several schools were closed for couple days... but I fear this will not change quickly here. switching from cheap oil to natural resources cost money and that something that isnt very abundant here. only a small population (150.000 inhabitants) so its not easy to have big investments here...

You live on Curacao? How cool! :-D (Or with regard to all the air-conditioners you mentioned; hot)! ;-) So, we´re both islanders, then :-)
You´re right about the solar enery, though. I would have thought that it would be *the* perfect place to have solar panels. (Wich could run the aircons) ;-)
I just looked Curacao up on Wikipedia....very interesting place - and looks very beautiful too. Saw some great-looking pictures from Willemstad. The only other town wich was indicated on the small overview map was Westpunt. Hmm 150 thousand you say, -there can´t be only two towns, can there?
Here we are 300 thousand.

Yi-haa, from Iceland ;-D
-K