I’ve posted an album page with pictures from my recent road trip amonst the Volcanoes of the west coast.

There are nineteen of them located here.

Here are a couple of reduced samples of the photos:

I experimented with Ansel Adam’s zone system, where you expose for shadows and develop for highlights. In order to get the necessary dynamic range, I bracketed all of my exposures by a couple of stops in either direction.

Many of the photos are HDR tonemapped, using Photomatix.

Some of the photos are taken a mile underground in a lava tube, and painted by Coleman lanterns and flashlights.

Some of the photos are just cute.