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Fire & Ice
Fire & Ice
orvaratli


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Challenge: Free Study 2010-03 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Fimmvörðuháls, Iceland
Date: Mar 26, 2010
Aperture: 22
ISO: 50
Shutter: 20 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Panoramic
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2010

 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.

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 350
Avg (all users): 6.2568
Avg (commenters): 7.8333
Avg (participants): 6.2727
Avg (non-participants): 6.2245
Views since voting: 1211
Views during voting: 262
Votes: 148
Comments: 9
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 04/12/2010 10:32:26 AM
I'm amazed places like this still exist in the world. Amazing, and I can't wait to visit Iceland again.
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 04/08/2010 04:36:16 PM
Terrific photo, and I'm pleased you got far more 6 and above votes than you got 5 and below! Still, I think this should have placed higher. I wonder if you suffered a bit in the voting because people at DPC have seen so many photos this past week of volcanic eruptions?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/07/2010 10:43:43 PM
wow...spectacular 8
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 04/07/2010 12:05:06 AM
Quite an interesting shot. Great colors.
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 04/06/2010 10:57:58 AM
8
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 04/05/2010 08:40:12 PM
like your title, pretty cool capture (or should I say hot)?
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 04/05/2010 03:05:06 PM
8 Great capture and thanks for showing this natural phenom. Lovely comp and mood with skyline and shoftness contrasted with the harshness of the land. Wish I could see this in person
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 04/05/2010 02:49:46 PM
Have seen a handful of these now. I like the detail this has compared to some others. It's funny...this one has more detail in the areas outside of the lava plumes, but in yours the lava and smoke are blurred from the long exposure. Maybe a combination of multiple exposures to get detail in both? Just some observations. Good luck.
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 04/02/2010 05:53:48 PM
Frábær mynd
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