A photographer has taken an explosive set of images by igniting gasoline in midair. Rob Prideaux, 45, photographs fire and smoke and then creates patterns from it. The San Francisco-based artist captures the fire in the split second its visible by using highly arcane methods. Rob's Smoke and Fire series is his quest “to shape one of the more uncontrollable phenomena in nature”. (Photo by Rob Prideaux)

Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers celebrate the Holy Fire ceremony at the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on April 23, 2011 in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel. Hundreds of Orthodox Christians, all from different sects, participated in the ceremony a day preceding Orthodox Easter, and has been celebrated by worshipers for the last 1,200 years. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Charcoal burner Zygmunt Furdygiel fires wood inside a charcoal furnace at a charcoal making site in the forest of Bieszczady Mountains, near the village of Baligrod, Poland October 27, 2016. (Photo by Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

Max Niedermaier of Germany collides with uncontrolled motorcycle of Niclas Svensson of Sweden during Astana Expo FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship at the Medeo rink in Almaty, Kazakhstan, February 18, 2017. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

Competitors take part in the Red Bull Crashed Ice Cross Downhill World Championship in Marseille, France, January 14, 2017. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

Florida Division of Forestry fire fighter, Tim Abramczyk, sprays foam on a hotspot that flared up as he works on containing a 50,316-acre brush fire on June 10, 2011 in West Dade, Florida. The fire started last weekend as South Florida continues to endure a dry start to the rainy season and drought conditions have begun to appear. The forestry division has the fire about 55 percent contained. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A man salvages his belongings after a raging fire engulfed around 2,000 houses in Quezon city, metro Manila January 1, 2015. At least eight people, including a seven year-old child, died and thousands were displaced after a fire broke out in different locations in metro Manila as the New Year kicked off, local media reported. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

In this February 2, 2014 photo, people take pictures inside a cave at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin, which has been transformed into a dazzling display of ice sculptures by the arctic siege gripping the Upper Midwest. (Photo by Brian Peterson/AP Photo/Minneapolis Star Tribune)