Sometimes destruction can be beautiful. Case in point with the eruptions at Mount Eyjafjallajökull. While the Smoke and debris has caused enormous amounts of damage to the economy and halted flights across Europe, it has also created opportunities for brilliant photographers to come in and capture something that may only come once in a lifetime. Unfortunately, not too many people have capitalized on it; until now. Photographer Sean Stiegemeier made the long trip to Iceland just to capture this footage for one simple reason.

So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). 4 days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another 4. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get.

The result is this beautiful time lapse. Enjoy!

via PetaPixel