The Power of Nature
Nature, prize stories
December 13, 2015
Colima Volcano erupts with rock showers, lightening, and lava flows. The volcano, which is one of the most active in Mexico, showed an increase in activity from July onwards.
Lightning in volcano eruptions is generated when rock fragments, ash and ice particles in the volcanic plume collide, producing static charges—just as ice particles do in clouds.
Photo Credit: Sergio Tapiro
Sergio 'Tapiro' Velasco is a photojournalist, documentary and nature photographer.
He was born in 1971 in the small city of Colima, Mexico. He started documenting Colima Volcano activity in 2002 and alternates his work with photojournalism since 2005.
Many of his pictures have been featured on the most important media of his country, newspapers, magazines and TV. Recently, he has also worked in local TV and radio programs and his photographic material can even be found on science articles as a colaborator.
His work on volcanoes is a long-time life project with currently 14 years of work, taking literally thousands of photos and timelapses of Colima Volcano.
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