Oslo Fjord Pictures

Islands

Sea foam

BildeEirik Dahl

Weather and wind, sun, and clouds are everywhere on the globe. But every place has its own palette of colors, which the great unknown artist paints on the firmament with masterful brushstrokes. Dramatic visual compositions appear at sunrise and sunset. The art can be seen for a few minutes in nature's own gallery, only to disappear into new wonderful pictures, until darkness or daylight erases all shades.

The morning light over the archipelago before the birdlife and human swarm awaken are incomparable. The sunrise at 4am slide across lead-grey rocks like blazing heat from a furnace. A few hours later the dazzling daylight shows a solidified landscape of lava rocks, granites, and syenite which are the geological southern coast of the Oslo Fjord.

 

Tiny particles of fats, algae, fish scales, bits of coral and other pollutants that are suspended in the water are churned up, creating a thick foam.

 

Sea foam is a natural phenomenon of the ocean which involves formation of white lathery substance which floats on the surface of water and gets accumulated at the sea shores. The formation of sea foam is seen in several parts of the world and continues to intrigue people even today.

Sea foam is created when the ocean is disturbed by wind and waves. Tiny particles of fats, algae, fish scales, bits of coral and other pollutants that are suspended in the water are churned up, creating a thick foam.

This is much like the bubbles caused by a bottle of water or other liquid being shaken vigorously, though on a larger scale.