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I Melted My Drone Camera Flying Too Close To The Lava Flows Of Mount Kilauea, Hawaii
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I Melted My Drone Camera Flying Too Close To The Lava Flows Of Mount Kilauea, Hawaii

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In October 2017 I spent 2 weeks shooting in Hawaii. The first stop was Big Island, where a friend and I shot the lava flows of Kilauea volcano. We hiked about 8 kilometers to reach the red hot lava, which fortunately was flowing outside the boundary of the national park. This enabled me to use my drone and capture unique aerial perspectives of the amazing flows.

An hour into our visit, new lava rivers simply burst straight out of the mountain side, and flowed, diverging and converging, down the slopes. We were truly mesmerized by the unusual display, and spent in all about 3 hours shooting at daytime, sunset and twilight.

At some point, I was noticing the right side of the drone images was getting darker. I continued shooting but when I went back to the apartment, I was surprised to see the plastic inside the drone camera had melted when I was shooting close to the lava! It was worth it, though!

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I Melted My Drone Camera Flying Too Close To The Lava Flows Of Mount Kilauea, Hawaii

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I Melted My Drone Camera Flying Too Close To The Lava Flows Of Mount Kilauea, Hawaii

I Melted My Drone Camera Flying Too Close To The Lava Flows Of Mount Kilauea, Hawaii

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    Erez Marom is a full-time nature photographer, photography guide and traveler based in Israel. Specializing in wildlife and landscape photography, Erez spends much of his time in the field shooting the wildlife and scenery of his favorite locations in Israel and overseas. In addition, Erez publishes articles and instructional texts in leading magazines and websites, and dedicates a considerable amount of his time to sharing his experience and knowledge by lecturing worldwide and traveling several times a year to guide his unique photography workshops. If you'd like to experience and shoot some of the most magical locations on earth with Erez as your photography guide, you're welcome to join his upcoming photography workshops. More info on erezmarom.com

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    Erez Marom is a full-time nature photographer, photography guide and traveler based in Israel. Specializing in wildlife and landscape photography, Erez spends much of his time in the field shooting the wildlife and scenery of his favorite locations in Israel and overseas. In addition, Erez publishes articles and instructional texts in leading magazines and websites, and dedicates a considerable amount of his time to sharing his experience and knowledge by lecturing worldwide and traveling several times a year to guide his unique photography workshops. If you'd like to experience and shoot some of the most magical locations on earth with Erez as your photography guide, you're welcome to join his upcoming photography workshops. More info on erezmarom.com

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Deep in the land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring to control all others, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was an excellent sacrifice of a drone camera. Hopefully your DJI is like my Aultel Robotics and is replaceable.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, I'm amazed a drone camera can get photos that sharp, awesome!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a geologist, I say we need more, more, more volcano imagery! Beautiful shots, thanks so much for sharing!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always had a fascination with lava. These are awesome shots! Well worth the damage I would say!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, these are truly amazing photos! It was totally worth it to melt your poor drone! Good job drone, good job!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Deep in the land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring to control all others, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was an excellent sacrifice of a drone camera. Hopefully your DJI is like my Aultel Robotics and is replaceable.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, I'm amazed a drone camera can get photos that sharp, awesome!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a geologist, I say we need more, more, more volcano imagery! Beautiful shots, thanks so much for sharing!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always had a fascination with lava. These are awesome shots! Well worth the damage I would say!

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, these are truly amazing photos! It was totally worth it to melt your poor drone! Good job drone, good job!

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