Landscape nominee

Mount Etna, is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. I haved reached the new effusive fracture, which began to erupt two weeks before, at an altitude of 3100 meters, at the base of the South East Crater, the youngest of the four active summit craters. The explosive phases seemed over so I decided very carefully to get close as possible. Then I started to take pictures from where the lava was coming out with a temperature of 1100 C°.After the first part, due to the cooling of the surface, the lava flow had generated a magnificently and typical cavity called lava tunnel

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.