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Colima Volcano Eruption, Comala, Colima, Mexico: The Colima volcano of southwest Mexico is one of the most active in North America. Constructed within a 3-mile (4.8 km) wide caldera, this stratovolcano has had more than 30 periods of eruption since 1585, including several significant eruptions since the late 1990s. “In December of 2015, I was set up 8 miles (12.8 km) away to record some activity. That night, there was incandescence over the crater – a signal that something was about to happen. An ash column began to emerge, rockfalls and minor lava flows appeared, and a massive lightning strike brightened the whole scene. This electrical activity, called a “dirty storm”, occurs when ash particles in the volcanic plume collide, producing static charges. After 15 years of constantly documenting this volcano, I finally captured the power of nature in one image”. (Photo by Sergio Tapiro Velasco/Nature’s Best Photography Awards 2017)
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