My most popular lava images
Best lava photos based on comments and sales
NOTE: All my lava images are greatly enhanced if the final print is lit in close, glancing across the photo from the top or kitty-corner, using 50-watt Par-20-spot lights; especially true for canvas prints. Most stores with lighting fixers carry them for about $10.
Read MoreNOTE: All my lava images are greatly enhanced if the final print is lit in close, glancing across the photo from the top or kitty-corner, using 50-watt Par-20-spot lights; especially true for canvas prints. Most stores with lighting fixers carry them for about $10.
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Electric Bolt Blasts Inside Lava Plume #2 IMG# 0098
(If purchasing this photo, please note it is nearly square, so you might want to select a square ordering size and not crop it - select 'none' if the cropping page has auto-cropped it)
In a stunning display of awesome power, massive volumes of molten lava pours into the Pacific Ocean and instantly explodes resulting in tremendous heat, steam, sulfur gas, glass particles, rock, black sand -- and rarely, a lightning bolt within the raging plume seen here as a violet color above the lava showers.
Photo taken at the official Hawaii State Civil Defense lava viewing area on the Big Island, July 2008
prints well at 20x20-inches