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Lava eggs

Lava eggs

This is a unique photograph. No one else in the world was around when these eggs appeared during fissure 16 eruption in Hawaii. They were gone within a day when...
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This is a unique photograph. No one else in the world was around when these eggs appeared during fissure 16 eruption in Hawaii. They were gone within a day when lava covered them up and the area became a huge lava river. Shot pre dawn under extremely strenuous, challenging and dangerous conditions.
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NIKON D850

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 6400 Shutter 1/13 Focal Length 240/10

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Sep, 2018

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+3

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Peer Award

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