Chaiten Volcano

September 22, 2009

I recently saw a few photos of the Chaiten Volcano eruption which occurred about a year and a half ago. Not sure why this item went unoticed, I think it must have something to do with the media giving most of its attention to the 2008 presidential elections.

The photos are fascinating, especially the lightning image.

The Chaiten Volcano is located in Chile, the recent eruption occurred in early May 2008—the volcano’s first activity in over 9,000 years.

Lightning picture taken May 2, 2008 by Carlos Gutierrez. The other two photographs are from Reuters.

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A very wonderful interview with Chris Dombrowski

September 2, 2009

While some won’t click this, the observant folks surely will.

+ Courtesy of Mr. Jonah Ogles

The Fire of Los Angeles

September 2, 2009

“The fires here North of Los Angeles are still raging, it’s starting to look a lot like Mount Doom, in fact. The other day Matt mentioned that it would be cool to see a time-lapse video of the smoke from the fires. As crazy scary and horrible as the fires are, watching the smoke can be pretty beautiful and amazing. The video is pretty surreal, I never really knew how smoke reacted on such a large scale.”

Reprinted here from Kitsune Noir

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