Spectacular nighttime volcanic eruption photo wins National Geographic's top prize

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/08/spectacular-nighttime-volcanic.html

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That belongs on an 80s metal band album cover.

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Or Tenacious D. Same difference.

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Daang. Hephaestus and Zeus just going HAM over there.

The photo was later re-staged using vinegar and peroxide, a papier-mâché volcano from an old science fair project and shot with a googlepixel camera that resulted in 1,000 individual photographs. Each photo was then Photoshoped AF using the palette from a 1960’s Disney park brochure, levels and sharpness tweaked to make each one almost unrecognizable.

With everything re-assembled, the lightning was then added using Deluxe Paint IV.

Voila.

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All right Dr. Wysocki, this is getting out of hand now.

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Thunderbolt and lightning.
Very, very frightening.

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wow!

wow!

WOW!

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A metal band started that eruption.

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I was gonna go with “Oh, that was at the Dethklok concert,” but y’all beat me to it.

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Oh cool they offer desktop wallpapers. In 4:3 :joy:

Why not both?

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