One of the many hot wells at Krisuvik, Iceland. The bluish color, the haze and the smell is well known to everyone visiting such a place.

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Having a ball makes you interesting - but not necessarily by everyone.

Arnt Martin og barna på Stave

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Kids have fun and at the same time they study hydrodynamanics.

This is how: Three fountain outlets is powered by one pump. Putting your finger on one, makes the other two reach further. Now they competed to get the water further away. The winner put his finger on the two lower ones. Some viewers got wet.

A warm summer day in Liptosky Mikulas.

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He is less than 2 minutes old. Not much time for styling and makeup. His feet are still blue, and he has not started to cry. He does not look very happy either. But soon he will get something to eat, something really tasty, nutritious and healthy and served under conditions he will love. No junk food!

The next day he was still occasionally dissatisfied: www.flickr.com/photos/ystenes/3235547603/

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You can imagine how we felt after delivering the film for developmnt and a few days later got the message: "Due to a technical probklem the film was destroyed, but it will be replaced by a new film..." It has only happened to me once, and just with these takes that I could never do again.

The film was totally crunched, beyond any chance of repair.

Fortunately one picture survived, the first one. Here it is. The next one was partly destroyed, but the main motive was saved. But, the rest was gone.

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Krivan, Solisco and the ski jump in the background. The boys don't look happy. They are not completely recovered from a food poisoning that sent them to bed for several days and ruined our chance to climb the Slovakian mountains that year.

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