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May 24, 2008

 

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Volcanic Soil, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 2001

Photograph by Carsten Peter

A fisheye lens captures the desolate gray of a volcanic plain on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Kamchatka is a scimitar-shaped spit of land on Russia's far east coast, home to more than a hundred volcanoes, 29 of which are active.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Russia's Frozen Inferno," August 2001, National Geographic magazine)

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