Day 9/356 Left
1000 Words A Day – Welcome To My World
(I’m Sharing A Picture A Day With The World
For A Year!)
Hawaii Lava Show
I knew that my trip to Hawaii and my 2 hour trek to this volcano was
worth it when night fell and the lava show began. It was literally a
minute by minute light show as the molten lava ebbed and flowed
right at my feet.
This was definitely one of my most rewarding trips abroad, probably
next to my trip to Montserrat to photograph – guess what?…
another erupting volcano! However the Montserrat volcano was
erupting explosively and on one occassion I literally had to run for
my life! Fortunately it turned out to be a false alarm…luckily for me!
Enjoy and leave me some comments please.
on Mar 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
That is so beautiful! I have never seen anything like it. Thank you for bringing the beauty of the world to everyone with your wonderful photos!
on Mar 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I have had the good fortune to see the live lava in Hawaii – and it looks just like your photo. You can almost feel the heat from the photo. Usually photos do not do the scene justice – but this one does. Perhaps it is because I have actually seen this that I can get the feeling of seeing it from the memories as well as the photo. Does that make any sense to you? It does to me. When looking at photos of a beautiful scene, no matter how good the photo is, the effect is not quite the same as seeing it live. I think that it is because when you see something impressive, you have certain feelings and emotions that you cannot capture in the photo. That’s my explanation of what I am trying to say. I think I should quit while I am still almost ahead. Smile!! Take care and thanks again for sharing your memories (by way of your photos). Keep up the good work.
on Mar 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Margaret,
It’s interesting that you should comment as you have because you have hit the nail squarely on the head .
You see, when I was a little kid going to school I used to write the most descriptive essays and it was common place for me to score 100% for composition.
If I had to write about – say – a meadow, it was never enough to say that the grass was green or that buttercups were yellow. Instead I would tell of the slender shape of the blades of grass, of whether or not a patch was freshly mown, of the dewdops sitting delicately on teach blade and the pretty rainbow twinkling wwithin each dewdrop!
My teacher loved my essays, but little did she know that they were never writen for her and that I was keeping a secret from her.
You see as a little boy growing up my best friend lived on Mars…Yes you read that right. He lived on Mars!
And the funny thing is I never knew his name. nor what he looked like. However because he’d never been to Earth all of my descriptions were written for him!
Interestingly enough when I produce photography I never make the pictures for those who are present, but instead for those who may never get to experience the real thing. Just like I did for my little Martian friend so many years ago. As a consequence there is so much analytical processing that goes through my brain long before I squeeze my shutter release to make any picture. And all of this happens subconsciously and in the twinkling of an eye.
Truth be told brides are the ones who benefit the most from my style and my passion because I shoot their wedding photography for everyone who couldn’t make it to the happy event and not for them.
The result is that when a bride sees her pictures for the very first time she is often amazed at the unfolding events that I have captured; from the expression on a groom’s face who thinks he’s forgotten the rings, to the gleam in a mother’s eye as she watches her little girl all grown up.
Now the most amazing part of this entry for me is that it is because of your post that I have analyzed what it is that causes me to create the photography that brings joy to so many people’s lives
And for that realization I thank you…and my little friend on Mars – where ever he might be.