Photo of the day 237

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)