To take the perfect photograph, you need a whole lot of skill and just a touch of luck.
A fancy drone doesn’t hurt either – the winners of the International Drone Photography Contest HERE – but we digress.
A combination of skill and luck is what landed photographer Sergio Tapiro Velasco first prize in National Geographic’s Travel Photographer of The Year contest.
Standing 12km from the Volcán de Colima, Sergio managed to capture the volcano mid activity.
The photograph [above], titled “The Power of Nature”, managed to “beat off stiff competition from over 15 000 entries from participants in more than 30 countries,” reports the Evening Standard:
Velasco is a keen photographer, who has been snapping and studying the Volcán de Colima – one of the most active volcanos in Latin America – for over a decade.
He says he had no idea if he’d actually captured the spectacular event until he reviewed the photos on his camera. At the time of shooting, he was standing just 12 kilometers away from the molten-hot crater.
“When I looked on the camera display, all I could do was stare,” said Velasco. “What I was watching was impossible to conceive, the image showed those amazing forces of nature interacting on a volcano, while the lightning brightened the whole scene. It’s an impossible photograph and my once in a lifetime shot that shows the power of nature.”
And the rest aren’t that shabby either – check out a few of my favs:
You can see the rest here, and also download any of them as a wallpaper.
[source: eveningstandard
