Viti - Krafla Photo

Photographer’s Note

Aerial view of the Viti crater in the Krafla caldera

Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m.

Krafla includes one of the two best known Víti craters of Iceland, the second is part of Askja. The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed Hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.

The orange color comes from the rhyolitic substratum of the Krafla area.The people walking on the crater rim give you a flavor of the size.

Picture taken from a plane with excellent light. Sorry but by uploading the picture in TE much of the colors just disappeared (which become to be a real concern).

linask, xavshot, Zolive, dorte_s_t, brevbrev14, Deepforest has marked this note useful

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marivan (11) 2007-10-06 0:52

hello
no worries, colours are still very, very good
can imagine size of this crater, enormous,
regards

xavshot (63125) 2007-10-06 1:36

Bonjour Michel
Le paysage est magnifique et semble provenir d'une autre planète. j'aime beaucoup les couleurs de cette photo. Beau travail
amicalement
Xavier

Zolive (1654) 2007-10-06 4:44

Salut Michel
Encore une photo splendide. Le point de vue est excellent mais on ne pas faire beaucoup mieux qu'avec un avion. Tes informations sont très enrichissantes et malgré tout les couleurs sont belles.
Tous mes compliments.
Olivier

dorte_s_t (2285) 2007-10-06 4:55

Hi , Michel .
Such a wonderful place !
Great details ,colours and depth !
Perfect weather conditions , and your black framing enhances the power and beauty of this unspoilt nature !!
Kindest regards
Dorte

linask (2813) 2007-10-06 7:46

Very nice view from above.
About the colors - could it be that you were using Adobe RGB color space instead of sRGB ?

Deepforest (8825) 2007-10-07 12:44

Hi Michel,
excellent shot of beautiful Viti crater. Fantastic view from a plane, nice colours and good compositon. Krafla area and Viti crater are very characteristic, unearthly places and they are engraved my memory...
Well done. Best regards,
Andrzej

brevbrev14 (372) 2007-10-08 2:59