CJ Kaleis reportedly the first person ever to snap lava enter the sea from the breaker , swim near the scald water and avoiding lava bomb just a few from where he was remain firm . Needless to say , the risk of dying is immense but his picture are amazing .
In 2011 , he sense into a 20 - base lava tube-shaped structure while shooting the Kilauea Volcano and shattered his articulatio talocruralis . Here ’s a video of him taking these photos in the urine , a few feet from the lava .
raise on the Waianae Coast in Hawaii , his pursuit in volcano and nature mix with photography when he moved to the Big Island of Hawaii . “ There is no other position in the worldly concern that you may picture taking within understructure of where you stand the day before and capture such dramatically different image , ” he told me in an email , “ each vent exposure I capture is truly a unequalled moment in time never to be captured the same again . ”

He now go in Kailua Kona with his wife and two tike and runs theLava Light Gallerywith his unspoiled booster and fellow lensman Nick Selway .
His non - fervid nature photos are beautiful too :
CJ Kalehas been featured in new articles worldwide such as nature dear , National Geographic , Professional Photography Monthly , Surfer Magazine , UK Daily Mail , New York times , BBC , Ocean sentiment , and One World One Ocean , and has make headway legion awards and has even had his work displayed in the Smithsonian .

you may follow him and his mate Nick Selway inFacebookandtheir entanglement land site .
This is part of a seriesin which we are feature futuristic , exotic - looking or just plain awesome images of landscape painting , cityscapes , and objects . If you are a photographer with such work , pleasedrop me a business here .
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