Of all the volcano-related photos I’ve seen recently — including the beautiful gallery of Eyjafjallajökull pics on the Boston Globe‘s always-awesome photoblog, The Big Picture — this one is my favorite. It was taken by Arnþór Ævarsson of Hveragerði, Iceland, on April 5, and it shows the volcano in the foreground… and the aurora borealis in the background.
The volcano shown is actually Fimmvörðuháls, not Eyjafjallajökull, but the eruptions are related:
On March 20th, 2010 an eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano began in Fimmvörðuháls following months of small earthquakes under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier. … This has been followed in April by a larger eruption on Eyjafjallajökull itself, and there are fears that this will trigger a much bigger eruption of nearby Katla.
In any case, great photo. Stunning. Breathtaking. Nicely done, sir!
(Posted with permission.)
P.S. Alan Sullivan displayed a similar photo in this April 9 post, as well as a gorgeous shot of the full moon hovering over the landscape of ice and fire:
Those were taken by Albert Jakobsson.
Second photo, with the lighting? Mordor. 😉 Espicially with the Moutains of Ash between the photo and the volcano.
His arm has grown long.
Heh. Indeed.