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Surreal dreamy scene as molten lava meets the ocean in that magical pre-dawn light

IMG# LRH_1307_Crp
NOTE: you can click on any image to open new window and then click "details" to view EXIF technical data~~ and click it again to return here~~

Date Taken:	2013-04-02 05:52:20
Camera:	Canon EOS-1D X
Exposure Time:	3.2s (32/10)
Aperture:	f/9
ISO:	100
Focal Length:  200mm
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Closer view of the massive mounds of advancing a`a lava and a lone hiker seen in an earlier image~

Image# Royal Gardens_2714
Royal Gardens subdivision lava flow December 5, 2012
IMG#_Royal Gardens_2734

Watch this in action on my video here: http://www.leigh-hilbert-photography.com/Molten-Lava-Hawaii/Molten-Lava-Videos/11950129_8MK6Qx#!i=1629137219&k=Q7fb2Rw
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Midnight at the lava flow ~  IMG# Royal Gardens_2989

Massive A`a and pahoehoe molten lava rivers surge down the steepest sections of the Pulama Pali 

Date Taken:	2011-12-05 01:25:30
A lone tree remains in the middle of a huge a`a lava flow flaked by rapid rivers of pahoehoe.

IMG Royal Gardens IMG# 3003

Date Taken:	2011-12-05 01:47:04
Camera:	Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Royal Gardens_2700_ Lone figure

Looking down from a steep section on the Pulama Pali in Royal Gardens. In the fore & backgrounds you see some older (Feb. 2010) pahoehoe lava forms and far below are rivers of a`a lava creating massive mounds and fields; the dark areas are just-cooling a`a - two previously killed ohia trees smoulder from the heat.. This is being feed by continuous supply from the crater four miles further up -- 
For perspective, a lone hiker (red speck upper left) gazes on near the fifty-foot tall dead burning tree snag.

Image# Royal Gardens_SP_2700
~ Winter Solstice Full Moon Lava  #4 ~  

(Please see the closer view without the moon titled 'Golden Lava Falls' in the following  image, if you had seen that one at my lava photo display and are looking for it)

Winter Solstice 1999. Having a full moon on Winter Solstice is a fairly rare event in and of itself, but the rising full moon that night was said to be closer to the earth than it would be again for 35 years, so I made a special effort to get this photo (and the previous & following two).

Southeast shores of the Island of Hawaii

Prints well beyond 30X40-inches
~ Winter Solstice Full Moon Lava  #3 ~ (and Jupiter on the right)

Southeast shores of the Island of Hawaii
Surreal dreamy scene as molten lava meets the ocean in that magical pre-dawn light

IMG# LRH_1307_Crp
NOTE: you can click on any image to open new window and then click "details" to view EXIF technical data~~ and click it again to return here~~

Date Taken: 2013-04-02 05:52:20
Camera: Canon EOS-1D X
Exposure Time: 3.2s (32/10)
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 200mm
Surreal dreamy scene as molten lava meets the ocean in that magical pre-dawn light

IMG# LRH_1307_Crp
NOTE: you can click on any image to open new window and then click "details" to view EXIF technical data~~ and click it again to return here~~

Date Taken:	2013-04-02 05:52:20
Camera:	Canon EOS-1D X
Exposure Time:	3.2s (32/10)
Aperture:	f/9
ISO:	100
Focal Length:  200mm
Surreal dreamy scene as molten lava meets the ocean in that magical pre-dawn light

IMG# LRH_1307_Crp
NOTE: you can click on any image to open new window and then click "details" to view EXIF technical data~~ and click it again to return here~~

Date Taken: 2013-04-02 05:52:20
Camera: Canon EOS-1D X
Exposure Time: 3.2s (32/10)
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 200mm
See photo in original gallery.