3rd Place VolcanoDay * by Traveller by Canon DSLR Challenge

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VolcanoDay *
by Traveller


	Traveller

Nobody should let me near my old scanned folders...I'm dangerous. Well, someone has to be first and people need something to look at.

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Canon DSLR Challenge		24-May-2006 02:42
Dear Victor, this is Kilauea, and I think the image was taken in 1999 during a particuarly nice eruption. This is actually where the lava flow hit the sea, and it was unusal to get this very visable blowback, but I was lucky. Best Wishes, Traveller

Guest		23-May-2006 00:37
WAW... amazing... looks pretty dangerous.

Canon DSLR Challenge		22-May-2006 00:42
Traveller, What volcano is this, and when was the picture taken? -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		22-May-2006 00:26
Wow! Cool story. ~ Lonnit

janewigginsphotography		21-May-2006 23:25
How wonderful to have this in your image "vault". The 70's were a rocking time weren't they? :) jano

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-May-2006 15:03
Lonnit, I used to live in Guatemala, where, in the 70s there was a volcano, Pacaya, with two cones. It was a real tourist attraction because the active cone was lower than the inactive one. So the thing to do was to climb up the inactive cone and look down into the active one. In the 80s it became too dangerous to climb the mountain, not because of the volcanic activity, which was dangerous enough, but because of the robbers, who would lie in wait and rob tourists of the cash and photo equipment. Did I climb up it? Yes -- in the 70s. The day I went up it was extremely windy. Close to the top, we encountered someone else coming down. He was wearing a pair of goggles with one broken lens. We asked him how the lens broke. He said the wind blew a rock into his face. We didn't have goggles. When we got to the top of the cone, I glanced into the inactive crater and noticed that rainwater was boiling down there. I picked up a rock and noticed the underside was too hat to touch. Evidently, that word inactive was just a relative term. When we got back down from the cone, we spent the next hour or so getting sand out of our eyes. -- Victor

jnconradie		21-May-2006 10:14
Thanks, Traveller, for an excellent entry. I rather hoped (wished) that somebody out there would be able to post a nice volcano shot. How far from the action were you when you captured this "xtreme" shot? ~jnconradie

Canon DSLR Challenge		20-May-2006 05:33
That certainly qualifies for 'streemly dangerous' or perhaps...'streemly smokey', looks too close for comfort... great shot. Bob

Guest		19-May-2006 20:28
I would definitely consider this EXTREMEly close to a volcano, which itself is an EXTREME thing - but to BE THERE?!!!! Yikes! ~ Lonnit