Walking the Fire Line

 Cradling one of the world's largest and least studied lava lakes—more than 700 feet across and possibly miles deep—Nyiragongo has twice sent molten rock racing toward residents of Goma

A member of the expedition walks on the caldera's cooled lava floor, turned red by the reflected glow of the lake. 'Down here you feel the volcano,' says photographer Carsten Peter. 'It's a low-frequency rumbling that pulses through your body—like being inside a giant subwoofer.

Constant bubbling sends waves of lava lapping over the rim.
Scientists aren't sure of the lake's depth, though recent lava samples indicate the magma originated in the Earth's mantle more than 46 miles below.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/nyiragongo-volcano/peter-photography


Nyiragongo is a two-mile-high volcano towering over the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—one of the most active volcanoes on the planet and also one of the least studied. The chief reason for the lack of research is that for the past 20 years the eastern DRC has seen nearly constant warfare, including a spillover of the massacres in neighboring Rwanda.

A little something different

                 This Artist name is Kevinbolk, I found him on DeviantART. He is 25 and from the United States. He has his own online comic strip, thats where the spartans picture came from. The top picture is the KFC colonel and Ronald Mc Donald as Cloud and Setheroth respectively from the game Final Fantasy VII.

Spartans

Caravaggio

  Michelangelo Merisi, called later Caravaggio, was born in either Milan, or a town of Caravaggio near Milan, as the son of a ducal architect. His early training started in 1584 under Simone Peterzano, a little known pupil of Titian, and continued till 1588.
            In 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome. His contact with Giuseppe Cesare d’Arpino (1568-1640), the most popular painter and art dealer in Rome at the turn of the century, brought him recognition.  Through the art business Caravaggio met his first patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, who not only held out the possibility of working independently, but also secured for him his first public commission: side paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi. For Cardinal’s  Casino dell’Aurora he painted Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (c.1599-1600).
            From then on he was flooded by public commissions. Yet because of his violent temper he was constantly in trouble with the law. Since 1600, he is regularly mentioned in police records, is constantly under accusations of assault, libel and other crimes. In 1606, he became involved in murder (for killing an opponent after a disputed score in a game of court tennis) and had to flee, finding refuge on the estates of Prince Marzio Colonna, where he painted Madonna of the Rosary (c.1606-1607).

 A great deal of his work was controversial because of the content, which was largely based on biblical figures and the violence that takes place in the bible. His main tool was the contrast between the dark and very light.

Fantasy at it's best...His name is Todd Lockwood

 The artist of these pictures is named Todd Lockwood he is from Boulder, Colorado, and started drawing at the age of two or so he is told. He went to the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. It was primarily a design school, but taught all of the important basics. The first year and a half after graduating from CIA he was a designer, not an illustrator. Then he went on his own to be an illustrator. He started painting Satellite Dishes and in time went on to be an illustrator for TSR, and D&D. These pictures are part of his gallery of book and magazine covers he has done.

Tornadoes

          Fire tornadoes are one of the most unpredictable acts of nature, usually alighting in dry, heated and windy weather associated with intense bush fires.

            Also known as ‘the devil’s whirl’, they are usually around 200 feet tall and when they hit populated areas they are devastating. In 1923, a fire tornado killed 38,000 people in less than fifteen minutes across a district of Tokyo.

 Storm chasers Keith Brown, Brad Illston took the lst two pictures of tornadoes in a super cell  that touched down in Dover, Oklahoma in October of '98.

     I chose these pictures because I love the display of power that nature can represent. The different pictures show contrast in there environments which brings the tornadoes to the for ground.

An anime twist

http://www.tenmangas.com/chapter/Bleach421/214521/

     This picture was taken from a manga named Bleach. It was taken from Chapter 421 of the ongoing story authored by Tite Kubo. I think that the element most represented in this picture is the contrast of light and darkness. It's either light or dark and the details are distinguished by the duller colors (the dusty blue and grey).

Volcanic Lightning

These pictures were taken of Shinmoedake peak in Southern Japan as it erupts, between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures. They were taken by Minami-Nippon Shimbun. I like these pictures they show something not often seen and it is a true demonstation of the power that nature holds. Both pictures have Emphasis as the main point. Lines of white streaking through a darker or black background.