Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i August 2016

I stood on the newly hardened crust, my feet hot from the molten lava beneath. Pahoehoe lava breakouts flowed within a few feet of me and every few minutes I backed up as they advanced toward the ocean and me.

This photograph was taken during the “blue hour,” just after sunset when the sky turned a deep blue and the lava lit up the landscape.

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Mālama Honua.

5558 x 3705 300 DPI