- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Okay, I'll bite (metaphorically speaking). My 'Series' entry is a series of photographs taken over a period of 4 years, with 3 different cameras, all at the same location, a place I keep coming back to and 'seeing' in different ways every time. The place is "Boiling Springs Lake", in Mt. Lassen National Park, in northern California - it's a lake fed by underground geothermal hot springs whose average temperate is, indeed, boiling. The lake itself is also composed of and surrounded by other geothermal 'features' including 'mud pots' whose bubbling, boiling temperatures nonetheless support a bewildering variety of strange sometimes almost microscopic flora, as well as fauna.
This first image, from June, 2012, shows some of the ghostly mist/s that always rises from the lake surface. Taken with my wonderful old Pentax K200D which has since moved on to a new home.
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
The second in the series, also from the same date and by the same camera, reveals the self-indulgent tendency of the photographer to document his own presence in the landscape he is photographing -
Selfie in volcanic boiling lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
Jumping ahead to July, 2013 and a different, smaller camera - my old Olympus E-PL5 which, too, has moved out of my life - are some closer images of portions of the lake whose colors and mineral-like textures (with mud and stones and water and strange growths) always remind me of what I imagine to be alien landscapes -
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
From the same date, time, and camera, another view - which in my mind used to give new meaning to the adjective 'ethereal' -
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
And finally, last in the present series, jumping ahead more than two years, to August, 2015, and a different camera, my Ricoh GR, I come back to one more image of myself intruding upon the lake -
Feet at geothermal Mudpot by MiguelATF, on ipernity
Addendum: the series is ongoing and I suspect there will be more entries both this year and in those to come
This first image, from June, 2012, shows some of the ghostly mist/s that always rises from the lake surface. Taken with my wonderful old Pentax K200D which has since moved on to a new home.
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
The second in the series, also from the same date and by the same camera, reveals the self-indulgent tendency of the photographer to document his own presence in the landscape he is photographing -
Selfie in volcanic boiling lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
Jumping ahead to July, 2013 and a different, smaller camera - my old Olympus E-PL5 which, too, has moved out of my life - are some closer images of portions of the lake whose colors and mineral-like textures (with mud and stones and water and strange growths) always remind me of what I imagine to be alien landscapes -
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
From the same date, time, and camera, another view - which in my mind used to give new meaning to the adjective 'ethereal' -
Boiling Springs Lake by MiguelATF, on ipernity
And finally, last in the present series, jumping ahead more than two years, to August, 2015, and a different camera, my Ricoh GR, I come back to one more image of myself intruding upon the lake -
Feet at geothermal Mudpot by MiguelATF, on ipernity
Addendum: the series is ongoing and I suspect there will be more entries both this year and in those to come
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