Lightning and Volcanoes

[chrisvenus]

I just came across an amazingly pretty pcitre that I wanted to share.





I originally saw that picture on the national geographic website but found the slightly larger version on the dailymail site.

I was wondering if any of you skilled web searches would be able to find me a much bigger version that I could use as a background or something without having to scale that one up...

Also though I did find another pretty volcanoe/lightning picture while looking:

http://www.zullophoto.com/2828.html

Anyway, that's my prettiness and I guess a "still alive" type post since I've not posted for a while.

Comments

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really pretty!

Glad to hear you're still alive! :)

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

That is a great piccy!

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I am still sad that that picture just can't be iconised.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

It is rather tricky. This is about the best section I could see.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

And it's very nice, but it just lacks the raw power of the original to me.

I may sulk.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Well it is scale isn't it, a snippet can't really give much sense of that.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I suspect this one is as good as you'll get.

(Edit: It zooms, in case you didn't spot the control on the left!)

[chrisvenus]

I did spot that. A bit of faffing around to widen it out a bit, some screen capping and a brief use of the gimp now has my secondary monitor with a nice lightning clad volcano on it. :)

Thanks for your uber skillz.

Now for bonus points why am I now apparently having to use shift-enter to put in line breaks in firefox (or possibly just in LJ)? :) Stoopid browser. :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

having to use shift-enter to put in line breaks

Weird! Umm... no idea.

Probably something sticky has got stuck somewhere. I'd just restart stuff. I'm lazy like that!

[chrisvenus]

You can have a bonus point for that. I closed firefox and opened it again and it worked. Though I didn't actually close firefox properly since I realised I had another popup window open so it wouldn't have totally restarted the process. I suspect something did evil javascript somewhere that fubarred me. :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

If anyone else wants some shiny volcano goodness I've uploaded an 1200+ x 960 version to heffalumps (slightly 'shopped to work better as a backdrop).

(Nobody spread links too far please - I don't want 10000 copies downloaded!)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Yes, very pretty. Not sure if I'd want to be anywhere near it, though...

[irrumator.livejournal.com]

Nothing even close to as good as the link above I'm afraid, though I did find these smaller images of the same eruption.

http://www.inglaner.com/volcan_chaiten.htm

[lilibel.livejournal.com]

Whouah the pretty!
I love nature.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

That's utterly stunning. *wants to write stories about it now*

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Pretty!