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31
May
2011

Mount Doom




Another archive shot, this time taken in 2007. This images shows Santa Maria volcano in western Guatemala. At the time I was there, it was erupting about once an hour and provided a very spectacular backdrop to the village I was working in with a group from the Presbyterian Church.

The drama of this version reminded me very much of Peter Jackson’s rendering of Mount Doom in “The Lord of the Rings.”



Tagged - guatemala, Landscape, Monochrome, santa maria, volcano


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Jim Denham
May 31, 2011, 7:00 am

Absolutely gorgeous Dave! Looks like the top of the world!
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Scott Wyden Kivowitz
May 31, 2011, 7:01 am

Powerful and dramatic!
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Jim Nix
May 31, 2011, 7:16 am

that is a sweet shot Dave!

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Brian Furbush
May 31, 2011, 7:21 am

Dude this is absolutely sick. You rocked the reprocessing!
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murphyz
May 31, 2011, 7:22 am

Superb processing to make this an epic looking scene, nice one.
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Dave Wilson
May 31, 2011, 7:31 am

Thanks, all. The last version of this shot is here on Flickr. It’s not radically different but I fixed some sky problems and pulled a bit more detail out of the foreground. I really should post the original frame since seeing that makes the final result look very much more impressive due to the low contrast and haze in the original.

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Mike Olbinski
May 31, 2011, 12:32 pm

AWESOME Dave! Love this!
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Brian Scott
May 31, 2011, 1:10 pm

The more I look at it, the more impressed I am with it.
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James Howe
May 31, 2011, 6:03 pm

Aptly named! Great shot.
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atmtx
May 31, 2011, 8:43 pm

The details on the mountain are awesome.
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Ronnie
July 22, 2015, 5:13 am

Nice website!

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