Fire and Ice - Eyjafjallajökull Eruption
Sorry if I am spamming you with volcano shots. This is just such a unique and exciting thing to see and photograph so I cant stop posting them.
After sunset is the best time of day to photograph volcanos. I have narrowed it down to a 15 minute time frame that renders the best light both for the flying magma and the fore/background. Here we can see the volcano and Tindfjallajökull glacier which is also is a volcano but has not erupted in thousands of years.
Sadly flickr sucks at displaying panoramas as I have often complained about. 500pixels wide is just not enough for a panorama. I will hereby complain yet again about this, does anybody agree?
We stayed up at the volcano for about 10 hours, viewing, measuring, photographing and absorbing this event. At one point it got pretty scary, see this photo from Gummi Stóri: Steam Explosion.
The area around the volcano is very mountainous with deep canyons. The lava started to flow down one of these canyons. In the 200-300m deep canyon a big chunk of 1000°C lava collapsed on top of ice and snow turning it instantly into steam, 1700 times the volume of the ice/snow. The explosion was so big it sent large stones flying hundreds of meters into the air. When we realized that the stones where coming our way we ran like hell. I managed to throw myself behind a car. Luckily enough all of the 20-30 people there escaped unharmed.
For publishing rights please contact me at orvaratli@hotmail.com or gsm: 354-6953536
Fire and Ice - Eyjafjallajökull Eruption
Sorry if I am spamming you with volcano shots. This is just such a unique and exciting thing to see and photograph so I cant stop posting them.
After sunset is the best time of day to photograph volcanos. I have narrowed it down to a 15 minute time frame that renders the best light both for the flying magma and the fore/background. Here we can see the volcano and Tindfjallajökull glacier which is also is a volcano but has not erupted in thousands of years.
Sadly flickr sucks at displaying panoramas as I have often complained about. 500pixels wide is just not enough for a panorama. I will hereby complain yet again about this, does anybody agree?
We stayed up at the volcano for about 10 hours, viewing, measuring, photographing and absorbing this event. At one point it got pretty scary, see this photo from Gummi Stóri: Steam Explosion.
The area around the volcano is very mountainous with deep canyons. The lava started to flow down one of these canyons. In the 200-300m deep canyon a big chunk of 1000°C lava collapsed on top of ice and snow turning it instantly into steam, 1700 times the volume of the ice/snow. The explosion was so big it sent large stones flying hundreds of meters into the air. When we realized that the stones where coming our way we ran like hell. I managed to throw myself behind a car. Luckily enough all of the 20-30 people there escaped unharmed.
For publishing rights please contact me at orvaratli@hotmail.com or gsm: 354-6953536