Nature nominee

In southeast Iceland, the Bardarbunga volcano system, located under Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajoekull, has been rocked by hundreds of tremors daily since mid-September 2014, prompting fears the volcano could erupt explosively, wreaking havoc on air traffic once again. An eruption of Bardarbunga, the largest volcanic system in Iceland, has the potential to be even more disruptive than the 2010 eruption of nearby Eyjafjallajokull.

Michael O.A. Klapper is an amateur photographer who started with photography in 2010. After several years of self-introduction and trying almost every genre in photography he ended up in black and white long-exposure fineart and multiple exposure photography in 2013. His special interest is capturing modern, urban architecture and seascapes around the world. The passion for seascapes has taken him to several countries around the world like: Madeira, Iceland, Portugal, south of England , Ireland and Spain. Unlike other photographers he prefers to shoot in bad weather conditions with cloudy skies to create a minimalistic photographys focussing on the essential.