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17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Eye of the Earth

Unfortunately, human activity leaves very large wounds on the "skin" of our planet. Uzunlar Lake was considered the largest deposit of coastal sulfide mud in the USSR. But some years later Uzunlar was made a part of the territory of a military training ground. The most beautiful landscape forms of the lake became targets for firing and bombing, the surface of the mud deposits is literally packed with bomb fragments and rock fragments. Crimea, pink lake Uzunlar

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: Russia
Camera: L1D-20c
Copyright: © Elena Pakhalyuk