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This is another one of my old slides that I´ve scanned. (Ektachrome 100asa).
It was taken when I was on holiday in Iceland in 1987. -I was living in Norway at the time :-)
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Apr 22 2008 01:06 GMT junne
looks like a scene on mars :-)))
Apr 22 2008 02:03 GMT hans55 PRO
great one !!!
Apr 22 2008 02:18 GMT shaista
well done and intresting
Apr 22 2008 05:01 GMT sini
Great contrast!:)
Apr 22 2008 05:39 GMT losp
Fantastic place .. Unbelievable :o) .. Great shot !!!
Apr 22 2008 06:35 GMT sider
Wonderful place... and agree with Junne... :-))
Apr 22 2008 07:04 GMT tacka
Great and interesting Karl!!!!!!!!!
Apr 22 2008 08:34 GMT Minou
Wonderful work !
Apr 22 2008 10:10 GMT ali1pat
What an interesting place - I also agree with Junne - great capture :)
Apr 22 2008 11:35 GMT JPHarr
And here's to a productive Earth Day 2008. =)
Apr 22 2008 11:52 GMT danisto
strange combination of these huge steamers and people that are relaxing beside them
Apr 22 2008 12:10 GMT hallo
Excellent capture...impressive scene!
Apr 22 2008 12:33 GMT sprekitoy
Nice capture.
Apr 22 2008 12:36 GMT Cooler
Wonderful image and scan my friend, from the early days of the Blue Lagoon ;-)))
Apr 22 2008 12:48 GMT Firecrest
Beautiful cotrast, wonderful shot !!
Apr 22 2008 15:38 GMT vladofly
Amazing place, well taken!
Apr 22 2008 15:44 GMT curandera
mmmmm...nice!!!
Apr 22 2008 16:25 GMT misscharlie52
Wow Karl, thought you don't get out much... What a great shot - Celebrate Earth Day April 22nd 2008 ;-)
Apr 22 2008 16:29 GMT marjuska
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!
Apr 22 2008 18:51 GMT MagentaStar
Amazing shot and place my friend!!
Apr 22 2008 19:59 GMT otilia
Nice capture.
Apr 22 2008 20:54 GMT Bellavista
Very interesting place!
Apr 22 2008 21:23 GMT Tavascarow
Wonderful capture.
Wish I had geothermal.
:))
Apr 23 2008 08:00 GMT Squirrel PRO
VERY GOOD PHOTO !
Apr 23 2008 12:25 GMT karlbark
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
Apr 23 2008 12:40 GMT karlbark
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
Apr 23 2008 16:09 GMT Midworlder PRO
Superb
Apr 24 2008 03:00 GMT aquiles PRO
FANTÁSTICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apr 24 2008 12:38 GMT iiLan
Amazing capture.
Apr 24 2008 15:11 GMT Hairlessman
...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?
Apr 24 2008 20:21 GMT Niceguy
Absolutely brilliant-- just love it
Apr 25 2008 16:04 GMT lofox
feeling very comfortable :))
Apr 26 2008 10:04 GMT karlbark
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
Apr 26 2008 13:46 GMT Hairlessman
Thanks Karl...I've been looking for one...I'll check it out...
Apr 28 2008 20:14 GMT yoshy
Crazy image, but really interesting and well composed! =)
Apr 28 2008 21:07 GMT PaP67
surrealist too !
Apr 28 2008 22:26 GMT domesticfix PRO
This is really good !! Nice work !!
Apr 30 2008 06:15 GMT dcz
good, good,and good. special one
Apr 30 2008 10:47 GMT dalesgateway
Very science fiction looking, I like it a lot.
May 01 2008 06:49 GMT elbeaver
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!
May 03 2008 00:17 GMT karlbark
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
May 06 2008 09:03 GMT Joe PRO
Thanks for sharing those pictures Karl, they are all things that we never see in Ireland.
May 06 2008 16:58 GMT karlbark
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
May 09 2008 02:00 GMT qpidoremix PRO
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!!!.
May 09 2008 02:44 GMT karlbark
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
May 09 2008 04:44 GMT qpidoremix PRO
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...
May 09 2008 17:10 GMT karlbark
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