PICTURE OF THE WEEK: THE ULTIMATE SELFIE, WITH VOLCANO AND STARS
by Hazed
Showing that selfies don’t have to be awful pictures of self-obsessed people, a photographer has taken a spectacular photo of himself standing on the edge of an active volcano, with the moon and the milky way in the sky behind him.
The volcano is on Mauna Kea, on Big Island, Hawaii. It’s made up of 23 individual frames stitched together.
Shane Black says he included himself in the picture to add a sense of scale to the image. “Adding a human figure into a photo really helps to show the scale of the scene and it also gives the viewer a sense of being there for themselves, as that person. I love stargazing and being humbled by the universe around us… It reminds me how small I am and this photo depicts that very well.”
