They may represent the only survivors who were able to successfully adapt as the lake acquired its uniquely hostile characteristics. In a new book by Nick titled Across the Ravaged Land, the North Tanzanian lake appears. These organisms may be evolutionary descendants of animals who lived on the lake before its current chemical environment arose. He has clicked the photos in Lake Natron, which is based in Africa. (Theres a disney+ documentary about flamingos, specifically at this lake, if you want to learn more) And its a dead lake (broadly speaking). Its a massively popular breeding ground for flamingos. However, you should not imagine the classic blue lake, but rather a basin of reddish water with deep white streaks typical color of those lakes rich in sodium and often subject to evaporation cycles. During the dry season the lake shrinks dramatically and turns a very vivid red colour, due to the algae and (I think) very small shrimp in the lake. It appears to contain a stable ecosystem consisting of a population of endangered flamingos, some species of fish, and algae. The lake that turns animals into stone is called Lake Natron and is located in northern Tanzania, in the African Rift Valley at about 600m altitude. Re-animated, alive again in death.”ĭespite its inhospitable environment, the lake is not lifeless. “I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. “The notion of portraits of dead animals in the place where they once lived, placed in positions as if alive again in death, was just too compelling to ignore,” Brandt said of his decision to photograph the animals. “There was never any possibility of bending a wing or turning a head to make a better pose - they were like rock,” he said, “so we took them and placed them on branches and rocks just as we found them, always with a view to imagining it as a portrait in death.”Ī fish eagle © Nick Brandt 2013, Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NY The creatures, he said, were “rock hard” from the calcification. The entire fish eagle was the most surprising and revelatory find,” Brandt, who photographed these calcified animals in 20, told The Huffington Post in an email Wednesday. “Discovering these animals washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron, I thought they were extraordinary - every last tiny detail perfectly preserved down to the tip of a bat’s tongue, the minute hairs on his face. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.” “The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. One theory that has been suggested by Brandt is that “the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, causing them to crash into the lake,” Brandt writes in his new photo book Across the Ravaged Land. It is not entirely clear how the birds die. Those that fall in and perish are exceptionally. A bat © Nick Brandt 2013, Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NY animals that do become interred here, animals dont immediately die and turn to stone upon touching the lake.
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