La Palma, Cumbre Vieja Volcano.

This year I had the great opportunity to be hired to collaborate on the island of La Palma with photographer Carlos Virgili and volcanologist Octavio Fernández.

Our work in the exclusion zone was to fly over areas of interest to expert volcanologists, see the evolution of lava channels or volcanic tubes, observe the lava flows and where they ran; know the low island, also known as “fajana”, which we could see both with our photography cameras and with our drones. We were able to see unusual areas and places totally new to everyone's view; everything we saw day after day was something new that had just been born.

In our eyes, the wonders of nature have been mixed with the catastrophes. Every morning we observed the piles of pulverized lava, colloquially known as ash mountains.

During the days we were there, we were allowed to enter the exclusion zones for more than 6/8 hours. That yes, with strict controls of accreditations and photography equipment, especially drones. The flights of these had to be communicated to the Military Emergency Unit (UME) since we needed their authorization and the pertinent limitations.

The feeling of seeing the flows up close at almost 1,000 degrees and the rays produced by the high electromagnetic charges gave us a unique sensation that even our drones felt.

From my small web space I want to give the maximum support and diffusion to the inhabitants of the island of La Palma, to whom I asked, how are you?

Their words were, “this is our beautiful island, and this is our volcano”. Everything will return to normal.