Steam Devil II --- ωωωIMG_5965

When temperature drops near, or below, the freezing point, and the sea is still relatively

warm, water evaporates and creates steam over the surface which is sometimes

drawn upwards creating vortices called Steam Devils. Heraklion, Crete on Janauary

8th, 2017.

Shades of J.M.W. Turner, the great early 19th Century English painter, master of the ocean seascape and nautical pictures. I remember seeing these waterspouts when I was in the Navy. Always an impressive sight and you have captures the unsettled mood here perfectly.

Hi Michail, you captured a very interesting phenomenon resembling the tornado. I have seen something similar with dust in the autumn fields. Best regard. Peter

Wow--this is an amazingly evocative image. Steaming sea, columns of mist--there's a powerful feeling of drama here, and the handling of the colors and tonal values here really amplifies that feeling...I think for the first time I'm really understanding Homer's wine-dark sea. And like Jack, I also immediately thought of Turner, an artist whose work I like a lot. But this image gets to me even more than Turner does because yours is so closely tied to reality--a seething Turner seascape that actually exists. It literally sent shivers up my back when I saw it, and I don't think a photo has ever done that to me before. 

Amazing. It is like a picture that there transmits the whole fury of the tornado, reinforced by the shades. Congratulation. Regards.

Wonderful capture. Unfortunately scenes as these will be frequent more and more. Have you seen also here in Italy what it is happening? We don't respect the rules of the nature and nature finds new dangerous equilibriums for the man.

A phenomenon really inetresting , I also in Sardinia had the opportunity to observe it, ciao Giangiorgio