Sunset over Licancabur volcano

The sun setting over the Licancabur volcano in the Atacama desert,

northern Chile. Due to the extreme dryness and clarity of the air, and

the lack of recognizable details, the scale of the image is hard to

perceive. From the place where I stood to the end of the plain (where

the shadow ends and the cinder slopes begin) is about 13 km. To the

volcano summit, about 35km. Thanks for comments and critiques!

It comes as a welcome surprise to see you uploading some new photos. I'm sure you have been busy with your work in Chile but I hope you will favor us with a few of your beautiful pictures whenever you have the chance. I think you are one of the most talented photographers on pn and it's wonderful to see your work again. This shot of the volcano at sunset is exhibition worthy and will find a place in my favorites.

Jack, this is really too kind of you, and I don't deserve such praise, but I'm sensible to flattery, so thank you very much :-). I'm particularly undeserving here, since the photo essentially took itself... the sight was so amazing that the only way to get a bad photo was not to take it.

Yes I have been away for a long while, partly too "practically" busy, as you say, partly simply with my head elsewhere, but I finally felt "hungry" again... This is actually an old photo (2012) that got caught in my switch from AfterShot Pro to Lightroom, and was not yet properly worked on in AFP, and not yet into LR.

Thanks again! L