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When photo-eye asked Brandt about his recent work, he said that “The photos, darker in tone than previous work, reflect the further ongoing diminishing of the natural world of Africa.” This image features a dove on the left, and a sea eagle on the right. BE WARNED: these images may be slightly disturbing.īrandt posed the animals as part of his photography. Photographer Nick Brandt participated in a 2011 photo-eye blog which featured his images from the alkaline part of the lake.

The waters’ alkalinity tested somewhere between pH 9 and 10.5, dangerously basic due to years of volcanic ash spreading sodium carbonate throughout the Great Rift valley.Īlthough the lake is home to thousands of flamingos that nest near its waters and feed on a diet of alkaline tilapia, any other animals that make the mistake of swimming there will die and become petrified statues.

Unless you’re a species that’s adapted to extremely harsh conditions, Lake Natron is a difficult environment to survive. Lake Natron, named for the compound that occurs naturally in its waters, looks like a description directly out of Dante’s Divine Comedy: a black, sullen swamp where the cruel and vindictive meet their fate, although the birds who perish there could hardly be labeled as such. The New Scientist reports that a bizarre lake in northern Tanzania is turning animals into calcified statues.