I’ve been fascinated with Earth Science for the entirety of my adult’ish life.  Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes have continually piqued my interest, not for the death and destruction, but the raw power of planet earth.

I set off to explore the world’s volcanoes with the hopes that I’d get to see some action in a new niche tourism segment called disaster tourism.

Destination: The horseshoe shaped Ring of Fire surrounding the pacific ocean, from the USA to Japan and south to the northern tip of Australia. This area lays claim to 92% of the world’s largest eruptions over the past 11,000 years.

The goal was simple, photograph the world’s volcanoes.