Landscape nominee

This pictures was taken in December 2020 in Sicily, on Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanos in the world. The most frequent eruptive activity is strombolian explosions in the South-east crater.

Dario Lo Scavo lives in Sicily in Linguaglossa, on the north side of Etna.Since he was a boy he cultivated a great passion for nature. Later working on the Mount Etna,he became increasingly passionate about the knowledge of the natural world, taking the opportunity to photograph important eruptive activities of Etna of the last 20 years. Dario exhibits and sells his images since 2001 in the gallery in Piano Provenzana, a tourist resort at 1800 meters above sea level, in Linguaglossa on the north side of Etna. Here you can still observe the devastating effects of the massive lava flow of 2002 which destroyed all the infrastructures an change the natural enviroment. The desire to discover new places, new cultures, narrating remote landscapes, in the company of his camera, which inspired him to undertake several many trips around the word.