Sergio Velasco Garcia, “Colima Volcano Explosion”,
This photo won third prize in the Nature category of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest.
The Colima Volcano in Mexico shows a powerful night explosion with lightning and some incandescent rockfalls. The photo was taken on December 13, at a distance of 12.5 kilometers away from the crater near a lagoon named Carrizalillos on Comala Municipality. This particular bolt of lightning is more than 600 meters tall, lighting details of the south portion of volcano in this 8 second exposure.
