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Volcanoes 2019

Laurie says:


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I have always loved the visuals of volcanoes. I once managed to be in a small plane inside the crater of Mt Saint Helens.

And I spent a lot of time in the Volcano Park on the Big Island of Hawaii before the last eruptions made it impossible to get close some of the craters. I also foolishly walked between very narrow runs of hot lava at night as it poured into the sea from Pu’o’u (It was a long way from the volcano and a long time ago.)

A relatively short time after Saint Helen’s eruption, Ctein and I took this shared image above as part of our collaboration project.

I’ve collected some amazing volcano photographs from 2019: The Year in Volcanic Activity from Alan Taylor’s In Focus
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An eruption of Italy’s Stromboli volcano on July 3, 2019, as seen from the beach of Stromboli island
Artspace131 / Shutterstock
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Lava is seen glowing in a lake inside the crater of the Nyiragongo volcano inside the Virunga National Park near the eastern Congolese city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 9, 2019. #
Baz Ratner / Reuters
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Lava flows from a fissure along Etna’s southeast crater on May 30, 2019.
Marco Restivo / Barcroft Media / Getty
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This picture taken on October 25, 2019, shows lava from the Piton de la Fournaise flowing down the east-southeast face on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
Richard Bouhet / AFP / Getty

Stunning Volcanoes

Laurie says:

I’ve had a long passion for living volcanoes. It began when I shot at Mt St Helen a few years after it erupted and saw it smoking. It was the first time I’d seen a live volcano.  Since then I’ve made a point of seeing them, often on the Big Island (Hawaii). Sometimes I’ve seen lava flowing into the sea, or walked on lava that has small streams of brilliant liquid flowing. (Not smart but amazing.)  I’ve shot through an open window in a small plane hovering the crater at Mt. St. Helen. It was magic – I loved it.

So, when I saw these stunning volcano photographs I had to post them. They’re from 2012: The Year in Volcanic Activity from Focus in the Atlantic Monthly.

Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava. In 2012, active volcanoes included Guatemala’s Volcan de Fuego, New Zealand’s Tongariro, Russia’s Plosky Tolbachik, Chile’s Puyehue, Italy’s Etna, and a new island appearing in the Red Sea. In Hawaii, Kilauea continues to send lava flowing toward the sea, and locals living near Mexico’s Popocatepetl continued to deal with ashfalls.

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Mount Etna spews volcanic ash during an eruption on the southern Italian island of Sicily, on April 1, 2012. Mount Etna is Europe’s tallest and most active volcano. (Reuters/Antonio Parrinello)
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Big clouds of ash and steam are spewed from the Popocatepetl Volcano as seen from the Santiago Xalitxintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on April 25, 2012. Residents at the foot of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano no longer sleep soundly since the towering mountain roared back into action, spewing out a hail of rocks, steam and ash. The volcano, Mexico’s second highest peak at 5,452 meters, started rumbling and spurting high clouds of ash and steam on April 13, provoking the authorities to raise the alert to level five on a seven-point scale. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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Incandescent lines mark the boundaries between migrating crustal plates on the surface of the lava lake in Kīlauea’s Halema’uma’u crater, on the Big Island of Hawaii, on October 22, 2012. Here, and at other lava lakes across the world, these rifting zones have a characteristic zigzag pattern. (David Dow/USGS)

There are a number of varied magnificent photos in the slide show linked above. They make me want to see volcanoes everywhere. Check them all out.