Lake glows in the dark

An eerie phenomenon turned waters (and midnight swimmers) luminous blue.

The swimmers look like they have been playing with radioactive paint as they take on a fluorescent glow.

The light is created by a chemical reaction called bioluminescence, which happens when a naturally-occuring micro-organism in the water is disturbed, the Daily Mail reported.

Photographer Phil Hart, 34, put his camera on a very slow shutter speed and threw sand and stones into the water to cause the reaction and capture as much of the blue haze as possible, according to the report.

These images are particularly stunning because the concentration of the micro-organism “Noctiluca Scintillans” was abnormally high when he took the photos at Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia, it said.

Phil said, “To be there watching this bioluminescence is spellbinding and to see it like this is very rare.

“I am a program director with an organization that has been running canoeing camps on the Gippsland Lakes for 50 years. Nobody can remember the bioluminescence ever being as bright as this,” he said.

어둠에서 빛나는 야광호수

이상한 현상이 호수 물을 (한밤중 수영을 즐기는 사람들을) 야광의 푸른색으로 바꾼다.

마치 형광 빛 속에 있는 것과 같이 수영을 즐기는 사람들이 방사능 페인트와 함께 노는 것 같다.

이 빛은 물속에서 자연적으로 생기는 미생물이 흩뜨려졌을 때 발생하는 반딧불 발광이라고 불리는 화학작용에 의해 발생한다고 영국의 데일리 메일지가 보도.

사진작가 필 하트 (34)는 카메라 스피드를 아주 느리게 한 다음 이런 화학작용을 일으키기 위해 모래와 돌맹이를 물속에 던져 가능한 많은 연무를 영상에 담았다.