Don’t get too close to the water.
This lake in Tanzania animals into stone.
© Nick Brandt 2013 Courtesy of ATLAS Gallery, London
Photographer Nick Brandt stumbled upon the calcified carcasses washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania.
© Nick Brandt 2013 Courtesy of ATLAS Gallery, London
"No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake's surface confuses them, causing them to crash into the lake," Brandt says.
© Nick Brandt 2013 Courtesy of ATLAS Gallery, London
Lake Natron is a salt lake and has a pH level around 9.5 to 10 — extremely alkaline — that preserves the animals after their death.
© Nick Brandt 2013 Courtesy of ATLAS Gallery, London
