Mordor

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 1, 20182,445 views10 comments

With all the craziness of the on-going eruption over on Hawai'i Island I decided to dive back in to the only time I have photographed lava back in 2009. While the experience itself was mind-blowing, my abilities with the camera back then were quite limited so that an entire evening of photography only left me with a handful of shots. In reexamining the collection I found 2 images that had potential. This one here looks like a mountain range in miniature. Hope that I have the opportunity again to capture this amazing subject and my condolences to the people effected by the most recent flows.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on June 1, 2018 at 4:50 PM

Actually quite good, Aaron. I like the exposure for the brights, and the diagonal flow at the bottom gives it a sense of scale and context.

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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on June 1, 2018 at 5:11 PM

This is awesome, Aaron. Sometimes time makes the difference in seeing the possibility. I love the abstract quality of this.
ML

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on June 1, 2018 at 6:33 PM

'Cool' abstract. It does look like a lava flow and yet there is a touch of evil suggested by the dark arms coming in from the right. Nice work. The blown out highlight can be easily fixed.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on June 1, 2018 at 6:55 PM

Thanks all

@bill - i'll have to go back to the original for sense of scale actually...the whole scene is quite small relative to how large it feels it could be :)

@ml - that's a quote if i've ever heard one...<3

@igor - nothing to be fixed here. shooting this is incredibly difficult, especially with cameras 10 years ago. blown highlights and clipped blacks arent always a bad thing ;)

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on June 3, 2018 at 6:48 PM

Wow, that is an impressive view. Nick

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on June 4, 2018 at 11:16 AM

Way cool (pun intended)! Love the sense of a mountain range leading off into the distance and the touches of glow.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on June 5, 2018 at 11:21 AM

Fascinating Aaron. This does looks like some super-duper infrared landscape of little mountain ridges. And the lack of scale here really adds a great deal of mystery to this. Well done, glad you pulled this out of the archives.

Lon

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Comment posted by Ed Cordes on June 5, 2018 at 8:35 PM

Love this. I agree with all of the above comments. It is amazing as well as super scary at the same time. Just imagine when most of the Earth looked like this!

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Comment posted by Ken Henke on June 7, 2018 at 10:48 PM

Good eye for an outstanding abstract!

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on June 14, 2018 at 12:24 PM

Aaron: Aptly titled and superbly captured. Hard to gauge the scale which is a good thin for me. Congrats on the WP.>=))>

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