A few years ago now, I was working on one of the remote islands that make up the Aleutian island chain. In case your geography is a little sketchy that close to the international dateline, I'm talking about a tiny chain of islands that set a bold curve between Alaska and the eastern tip of Russia.
Umnak Island is dominated by the huge crater volcano of Okmok, and this photo shows the top of the crater wall. We'd been blessed with a blue sky day (there aren't many of those there), but all of a sudden, a load of high, mackerel clouds pulled in. In a few moments, a low cloud which had been skimming the flanks of the volcano, spilled over the crater wall and sank into the void below. It was noiseless and bizarre.
I'm messing about with a slide scanner, which is why it's both grainy and covered in the accumulated dust of a slide with a tortured past. But I thought it was an interesting abstract photo nonetheless...
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