Shtory.ie Edward Dunne
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Photograph · 1920 × 864

Etna, still working

A road across black volcanic ground toward Etna's smoking summit.

A pale road crosses black volcanic slopes toward Mount Etna, where white smoke streams from the summit.
A pale road crosses black volcanic slopes toward Mount Etna, where white smoke streams from the summit. Mount Etna, Sicily

Field note

Why I kept it.

The buses at the lower left are the useful scale reference. Without them, the slope can look almost flat and the road much shorter than it is.

I like the photograph because it looks still at first. Then the smoke at the summit reminds you that this is an active system and the landscape is still being made.