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(Some Guy)		Photo galley of the Puyehue volcanic eruption. Whoever shot picture #3 deserves a medal and a free pair of underwear (heraldsun.com.au)		44
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hp6sa		2011-06-06 09:53:52 AM

Quick and crappy:

i1194.photobucket.com

Yaxe		2011-06-06 10:06:11 AM

Ay dios mio.

dittybopper		2011-06-06 10:07:21 AM

Why? It's a timed exposure. See those long streaks? Those are stars. If you were standing where the picture was taken at the time it was being taken, it wouldn't have looked quite as spectacular.

xiola		2011-06-06 10:12:45 AM

Also number 9.
Fantastic pictures - best volcano pics I've seen maybe ever

Farker T		2011-06-06 10:14:12 AM

"A view of the 9th hole green at the Llao Llao hotel golf course in Bariloche."

That's a hell of a sand trap.

JonZoidberg		2011-06-06 10:14:21 AM

Puehue-hoy?

taglius		2011-06-06 10:16:16 AM

volcanic lightning? Oh crap, now I've got something else to worry about...

Harry Freakstorm		2011-06-06 10:16:55 AM

I wasn't looking at her a$$.

and/or

If she keeps sweeping the power line, I'll soon be an only child again.

wearetheworld		2011-06-06 10:17:31 AM

Volcanic Lightning? What is this, I never.....wow. I have lived for 40 years, and I would like to think I know everything and have seen everything, but this is new to me. Thanks photo guy.

TheMega		2011-06-06 10:18:43 AM

Ever wonder why a lot of "Photo Galleries" are becoming more and more like little "Thumbnail Galleries"?

/btw, just looked through another set of photos concerning this with some wild shot of the lightning in dark clouds Yahoo's Thumbnail Linky of Pix (new window) if interested in more

mikebellman		2011-06-06 10:21:25 AM

RIP Underwear

cretinbob		2011-06-06 10:24:49 AM

StandsWithAFist		2011-06-06 10:38:03 AM

Neat pictures. Although if I'd looked outside and saw this

I might have to start consulting the book of Revelations.

AntiNorm		2011-06-06 10:39:58 AM

They did #3 because they had already done #1 and #2

...in their pants.

pete1729		2011-06-06 10:40:57 AM

JonZoidberg: Puehue-hoy?

As an aside, it was Thomas Edison who suggested that the proper way to answer the telephone was "Ahoy Ahoy".

the_sidewinder		2011-06-06 10:41:19 AM

dittybopper: Why? It's a timed exposure. See those long streaks? Those are stars. If you were standing where the picture was taken at the time it was being taken, it wouldn't have looked quite as spectacular.

Maybe that's the point. The photographer had to be close enough to get that shot for hours

Galloping Galoshes		2011-06-06 10:43:04 AM

#11 is very disturbing. Not as immediately frightening as #3, but disturbing for some reason.

swahnhennessy		2011-06-06 10:43:59 AM

Is it just me, or is volcanic lightning something new, at least to the point that it is photographed? I'd never seen it before, but in the last few years it seems every eruption that has occurred features it.

aearra		2011-06-06 10:44:14 AM

Impressive. Congratulations to the photographers.

KayakDude		2011-06-06 10:44:40 AM

Volcán pelotillehue?

katerbug72		2011-06-06 10:44:45 AM

So they're saying that a cloud of ash is billowing from Puyehue volcano?

/jaw dropping pics

katerbug72		2011-06-06 10:45:58 AM

Farker T: "A view of the 9th hole green at the Llao Llao hotel golf course in Bariloche."

That's a hell of a sand trap.

Looks like the Overlook.

durbnpoisn		2011-06-06 10:54:36 AM

GearishFear		2011-06-06 10:57:55 AM

V'ger? Is that you?

PepperFreak		2011-06-06 11:03:20 AM

Gorgeous pics.

Doctor Fegg		2011-06-06 11:12:31 AM

durbnpoisn: swahnhennessy: Is it just me, or is volcanic lightning something new, at least to the point that it is photographed? I'd never seen it before, but in the last few years it seems every eruption that has occurred features it.

It's not new at all. It's been around for as long as volcanoes have.

I've heard about it for years but seemingly have only seen pictures (and video) the last few years.

Video from Iceland last month: http://vimeo.com/24084400

germ78		2011-06-06 11:14:50 AM

I swear these pics of the volcano in Chile have been on the net and making the rounds for several years now. And every so often, someone who hasn't seen the pics before submits yet another link to the same pics I saw long ago.

/still cool pics tho

SnakeMan		2011-06-06 11:16:47 AM

Photo galley of the Puyehue volcanic eruption.

hoocher.com

WAT?

Kentucky Fried Children		2011-06-06 11:18:20 AM

hp6sa: Quick and crappy:

At first glance that kinda looks like a Mexican wrestling mask... made of fire.

/Rey Mysterio approves?

mynamebackwards		2011-06-06 11:34:10 AM

germ78: I swear these pics of the volcano in Chile have been on the net and making the rounds for several years now. And every so often, someone who hasn't seen the pics before submits yet another link to the same pics I saw long ago.

/still cool pics tho

Huh? I've seen volcano pics from Chile before but these pictures are of the current eruption that started last weekend.

sn0wblind		2011-06-06 11:35:02 AM

awesome pics, ty subby

cretinbob		2011-06-06 11:41:36 AM

swahnhennessy: Is it just me, or is volcanic lightning something new, at least to the point that it is photographed? I'd never seen it before, but in the last few years it seems every eruption that has occurred features it.

I believe it had been reported before, but as far as being photographed you're probably right. It's the same physics as in a thunderstorm, particles rubbing against each other, stripping off electron until voltage differentials blah blah blah.
But digital cameras and the internets and especially digital photomanipulation of color and contrast etc, make it more dramatic. Those images in particular appear to be HDR and certainly have had their exposure tweaked as well as the vibrance and sat levels. Even the pic stands with a fist posted has had it's colors tweaked.
I don't believe anything was added and back in the days of film and paper you'd do the same thing.

Of course now that I look back at hp6sa's observation I noticed that it looks more like this:

images3.wikia.nocookie.net

sotua		2011-06-06 11:48:40 AM

germ78: I swear these pics of the volcano in Chile have been on the net and making the rounds for several years now. And every so often, someone who hasn't seen the pics before submits yet another link to the same pics I saw long ago.

/still cool pics tho

You're confusing this eruption with Chaitén's (^) eruption from 2008. This is from a couple weeks ago or so and roughly a couple hundred km farther north.

TheAbstractor		2011-06-06 12:00:10 PM

The photographer was Francisco Negroni, who apparently has a broad portfolio of other Chilean natural disaster photos.

His website (which is on and off fxbrd)

A less impressive flicker photostream.

His facebook profile, if you want to know what he looks like.

madgonad		2011-06-06 12:43:44 PM

dittybopper: Why? It's a timed exposure. See those long streaks? Those are stars. If you were standing where the picture was taken at the time it was being taken, it wouldn't have looked quite as spectacular.

I'm puzzled how the photographer got such precise and numerous stars over what looks like a 30-45 minute exposure, while still capturing a relatively clean and sharp volcanic plume.

Loreweaver		2011-06-06 01:30:42 PM

madgonad: dittybopper: Why? It's a timed exposure. See those long streaks? Those are stars. If you were standing where the picture was taken at the time it was being taken, it wouldn't have looked quite as spectacular.

I'm puzzled how the photographer got such precise and numerous stars over what looks like a 30-45 minute exposure, while still capturing a relatively clean and sharp volcanic plume.

Easy. The plume is only visible to the camera during the brief flashes of lightning, and each flash only lights up a portion of the cloud. Cameras can also be programmed to trigger at the instant lightning flashes, rather than a continuous exposure. Even without continuous exposure, the stars will appear to "streak" if the time between exposures is short enough.

Paris1127		2011-06-06 01:32:43 PM

Volcanic lightning is beautiful... scary, but beautiful...
But this has to be the scariest volcano picture ever:
1.bp.blogspot.com

The people in the car are just feet from the pyroclastic flow of the largest eruption of the late 20th Century...

PepperFreak		2011-06-06 01:45:22 PM

On a side note, though, I'm going to have to deduct points from subby for going with "underwear" over the clearly superior "underpants"

slimfast		2011-06-06 03:18:49 PM

I thought of this...

media.weirdworm.com

When I saw this...

resources1.news.com.au

YourCousinMaebe		2011-06-06 04:05:49 PM

Photo captioner got lazy as cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano...

BinaryOrc		2011-06-06 08:09:57 PM

#4 is screaming for a shoop of God from Monty Python...

over_and_done		2011-06-06 09:13:49 PM

Get down, Mister Frodo! It's looking this way!

danno_to_infinity		2011-06-06 09:20:42 PM

my favorite is #12, saw it earlier today on another site. I want a poster size print of that and have it framed. That is the stuff of nightmares

ein125		2011-06-06 09:36:04 PM

So, let me get this straight. These are pictures of a cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano?

/Just want to be sure
//The captions weren't very clear about it

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