Craters at Sunset
by Frans Blok
Title
Craters at Sunset
Artist
Frans Blok
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
One of the most beautiful sunsets I ever experienced was on April 27, 2022 at Myvatn, the magical lake in northern Iceland. Indeed, that's King's Day in the Netherlands, but of course that's not celebrated in Iceland. Except in the evening, when the sun found a hole in the thick cloud cover and colored the landscape orange.
Myvatn lies on the fault line between two tectonic plates: the North American and the Eurasian plate, which are being pushed apart by pressure from the interior of our planet. Consequently, the landscape shows numerous traces of volcanic activity.
In the distance we see the Hverfjall, a cone-shaped volcano whose slopes are covered with black gravel and sand (but that too is colored by the sunlight).
More in the foreground we see a whimsical pattern of hills and valleys, of land and water. This is the area of the so-called pseudo-craters, which are formed when hot lava comes into contact with water, which as steam with explosive violence seeks a way out.
This special landscape in this special light made for an unforgettable moment. By the way, it was also very cold on this Icelandic spring evening, but I was happy to put up with that. This is one of the many photos I took that evening, edited into a digital painting.
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June 9th, 2022
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