Sometimes in landscape photography, nature smiles at your camera and surprises you with much more than you were hoping to capture. This photo is one example of that. While photographing an erupting volcano, the photographer saw a shooting star flash across the sky and steal the spotlight in the frame. Back in September 2016, photographer […]
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While shooting a sunrise timelapse of Washington’s Mount Rainier from West Auburn, amateur photographer Justin Burrell captured a massive sunrise avalanche slipping down the eastern side of the mountain. petapixel.com »
2020-04-17 21:42
A photographer in Arkansas made an unusual mistake this past weekend: he accidentally photographed the wrong couple’s proposal and completely missed his client’s special moment. Jacob Peters of JP Photography writes that he was contacted several days ago by a man in Wisconsin who needed a photographer to secretly photograph a romantic sunrise engagement from […] petapixel.com »
2017-05-10 19:48
It's hard to believe, but this stunning shot was taken completely by accident! Travel filmmaker Brandon Li and his friend were testing a drone over Hong Kong and when the battery was almost empty they pointed the camera down to catch a few last shots before landing the aircraft. boredpanda.com »
2016-09-29 14:14
A home security camera captured the moment a volcano erupted and spewed lava into the night sky - It also caught the huge boom emitted by the mountain on audio. [Read More]
The Raikoke Volcano on Russia’s Kuril Islands erupted this past weekend, sending a massive plume of ash and gas 8 miles (13km) into the sky from the 2,300-foot-wide (700m) crater. An astronaut onboard the International Space Station managed to capture a beautiful photo of the plume as the station orbited by 250 miles (402km) overhead. […]