Ultraviolet Bath Photo, Russia Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

It's creepy how the children are standing at such attention, hands behind back, backs straight. Nurse kneeling before the god of artificial sunlight. Reminds me of something you'd see in a David Lynch film, right!?

October 26, 2009

Ultraviolet Bath, Russia

Photograph by Joe McNally

This Month in Photo of the Day: Images from the National Geographic Archive
Make-believe summer lasts for a minute or two as kindergarten children in sunless Lovozero bathe in ultraviolet light. Brief exposure to UC radiation provides the children with vitamin D, normally supplied by sunlight. The "sunshine vitamin" strengthens young bones.

Ultraviolet Bath Photo, Russia Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day