Volcano – PHOTOS OF HUMAN PERSPECTIVES https://www.jonnyallegra.de Photographer - Jonny Allegra Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:11:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Azores – The volcanic islands in the Atlantic https://www.jonnyallegra.de/en/azoren-2/ Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:47:07 +0000 https://www.jonnyallegra.de/?p=2668 1,369 km from the Portuguese mainland, a small group of islands rises from a depth of 4,000 m in the Atlantic: the Azores. They lie on the tectonic plate boundary of the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, comparable to Iceland and are of volcanic origin. However, the subtropical climate that prevails here, with balanced temperatures and rainfall, has created a colorful landscape. Biodiversity in the highest degree, indescribable, not photographable, but only to experience. Rain, fog, sun at the same moment and this with an amazing regularity. Changeable and moody but all with an infinite continuity.

It doesn’t take long and the interplay of different impressions explode the capacity of the senses. Where should you look, listen or smell first? The intense fragrance of blue hydrangeas, the bright green of the meadows and tree ferns, the salty smell of the rushing sea or the intense taste of mystical forests and sulfur springs. The whole world seems changeable and moody and yet with an infinite continuity and impressive calm. That’s exactly how it should be, because in the overall view everything fits together again.

 

IMPRESSION

 

>>> The Azores – Biodiversity hotspot

>>> Sea Colors Expedition

 

]]> Santorini Experience https://www.jonnyallegra.de/en/santorini-2/ Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:47:13 +0000 https://www.jonnyallegra.de/?p=2689 During my preparation to a trip to a new place, I think inevitably of the many pictures I saw before in the web and from other photographers. I try to avoid this consciously, in order to be able to take the new impressions uncolored once I am at the place. This is difficult with Santorini. Every Greek postcard cliché, with bright blue churches on the rocky edge of the sea, is served here. If you search for Santorini on the web, you will be filled up, by glossy picture panoramas that promise a magical world in the middle of the Mediterranean…but reality could be so different.

The blooming cruise ship industry has made a lot of effort, to open up shining Mediterranean icons like Santorini to the mainstream media as well as the mass tourism. The impact of this type of traveling is unthinkable and the once quiet streets of Fira and Oia have become the hustle and bustle of a fairground that entertains tens of thousands of tourists every day. In peak times, 18,000! visitors per day were counted, with over 600 ships coming each year (see below…The Guardian).

In the course of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, the unique opportunity arose to spend an extensive week in Santorini and to experience the charm, silence and tranquility of the old island idyll.

I was not disappointed…

IMPRESSION

>>> THE GUARDIAN

>>> Visit Greece

>>> Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago

>>> Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism

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