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this is one of the photos i took during the trip to New Zealand in March/April 2011... i will be posting a lot more photos from the trip later on in the year... this is just a small glimpse into this amazing place...
Champagne Pool is a feature in the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal area on the North Island... the water in the pool bubbles away at a cosy 75 degrees Celsius and the orange colour comes about from deposits of arsenic and antimony sulfides...
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That is a spectacular colour!! Great composition too.
12 Aug 2011 5:28am
Super compo et iamge, quel effet cet orange avec la rond, grnasiose compo
12 Aug 2011 7:17am
Look forward to seeing the rest. Great shot! stars. ^)^
12 Aug 2011 7:42am
fantastic colour and framing. You have captured the very essence of this place and just how I remembered it - I can even smell the sulphur! I look forward to seeing more from your NZ trip - it is a truely unique country.
12 Aug 2011 8:20am
Great shot, nicely composed ! Colours are beautiful ! A great place !
12 Aug 2011 8:51am
Excellent framing! The colours are beautiful!
12 Aug 2011 9:03am
Ir's really amazing, great colors composition.
12 Aug 2011 9:36am
Stunning colours - and superb composition to show the rocky curve around the edge of the pool.
12 Aug 2011 1:09pm
Wow, what an amazing place, and a great picture of it.
12 Aug 2011 3:07pm
A beautiful capture of color, textures and mood with that steam. I love the edge that wraps around.
12 Aug 2011 5:11pm
cool, oops that should be hot image, i assume people don't get in the water...
13 Aug 2011 10:22am
Great shot. I find the framing difficult in a place like this, as when we were in geothermal areas in Iceland, because it is difficult to find a focal point. But I think the curves fading into the distance works well here.
13 Aug 2011 7:09pm
spectacular capture, that orange is stunning.
13 Aug 2011 8:09pm
Beautiful colors and atmosphere...Congrats on the spotlight!
13 Aug 2011 9:34pm
What an awesome natural phenomenon. You framed this so well. I like the band of color curving into the background.
13 Aug 2011 9:47pm
Wow a very interesting photo..nice info. I'll expect the rest of the photos.
14 Aug 2011 12:05am
Congratulations on Spotlight for this awesome shot- you have captured the colours beautifully. I is an amazing place to visit.
14 Aug 2011 5:34am
you shot is soooooooooooooooo great and wonderful and of course your explain about this pool was so use full man.thanks so much,..and lucky you that can go some wheres like this one...n :-(
14 Aug 2011 6:52am
Incredible pool, you captured ! Wonderful shot, congrats !!
14 Aug 2011 9:04am
Outstanding and terrific...An excellent spotlight colors...Congratulations .
14 Aug 2011 3:47pm
When I see this photography, I think about the Middle Earth… :-)
Cheers for the spotlight
14 Aug 2011 5:29pm
Félicitations pour le spotlight cette image est très belle!
14 Aug 2011 7:57pm
An amazing pool and I like your composition work on this!
14 Aug 2011 10:22pm
wonderful viewpoint....beautiful blends of colours, vapour textures & visual composition.....Congratz. on the colour spotlight
15 Aug 2011 6:21am
Hello! You just commented my photo in the New Zealand southern Alps, and I also visited Wai-O-Tapu last week before going back to France! Funny ^^
Great shot! Mine's not so good I think.
15 Aug 2011 11:04am
It is very nice! It reminds me Yellowstone National Park in USA.
15 Aug 2011 2:28pm
Oh my heavens! 75 Deg C...I love this orange band and the sweeping curve is amazing! Just a wopnderful depth in this image, despite the steam, as the curve wraps around to the right!! Beautiful here!
15 Aug 2011 8:47pm
fantastic...I saw ur pictures.they were wonderful...welldone
15 Aug 2011 9:27pm
This is amazing!!! The colors, the landscape ........... wow!!
16 Aug 2011 7:04am
A lovely shot. Congratulations on the Color Spotlight!
18 Aug 2011 3:48pm
It is even difficult to find adjectives to describe such places and natural phenomenons! You managed to show it at its best. No doubt 5*!
18 Aug 2011 6:27pm
Nicely capture scene...great composition and the colors really catch the eye.
18 Aug 2011 6:55pm
This is just awesome. Congrats on the spotlight. Well deserved for this beauty.
21 Aug 2011 7:16pm
I like the composition of your shot. Not easy with such a subject.
24 Aug 2011 8:34am
what an incredible place and so nice colors
26 Aug 2011 5:32am
Wow, beautiful spot, not unlike our Yellowstone.
5 Sep 2011 5:02am
you're a globe trotter ! your picture are beautifiul, I hope I go to new zealand one day
8 Sep 2011 4:40pm
une fantastique vision !! très belle image et uun bon cadrage !
17 Oct 2011 10:00am
Whoa! This looks like Yellowstone! Great shot and wonderful colors! Super!
25 Jan 2012 5:16am
What a fantastic clorful layers you have found ... beutiful
23 Jun 2014 8:50am
I have seen others of this spot but your image is a perfect balance of persepctive, colour and shape. Brilliant!
21 May 2016 8:31am
@Colin: Thank you Colin