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A lava breakout from newly cooled rock
"If I stepped on the gray rock in this photo, it would feel like stepping into a fire. You can pass over it if you move really quickly. You just dance along.
"Radiant heat applied to the skin is scorchingly hot. Until I learned what I was doing, I would come away from shooting some of these breakouts with [something like] a very bad sunburn. After 30 seconds close to one of these hot ones, I had first-degree burns."
—Photographer James Balog
Photography Notes
- Camera: Nikon D100
- Lens: 80-200mm
- Shutter speed: 1/125
- Aperture: f/8.0
- Time of day: 7:00 a.m.
"A breakout develops pretty quickly. If you're not ready to go, you'll simply miss your shot. It took me a good week to start to develop an eye for where a breakout was likely to happen, and how long it would last."
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