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At the age of 18, Stefan Forster set out alone, wandering across the southern highlands of Iceland. Carrying a 36 kg backpack, he walked 189 km in 13 days. Returning to Switzerland, Forster knew exactly what career path he wanted to pursue: becoming a full-time landscape photographer. Since then, the Swiss photographer has persevered with his choice and worked tirelessly. Now, at just 31 years old, he is one of the best landscape photographers in Europe and the CEO of a renowned photography school in Wilm, Switzerland.
Besides having his work featured on renowned television channels like BBC and TerraX, and participating in numerous projects for global organizations such as Google, Hisense, BMW, and WWF, Stefan Forster also has his own YouTube channel dedicated to posting breathtakingly beautiful footage of natural landscapes. Below is a 4-minute video that Forster completed and released last April, which shows a close-up of the eruption of an unnamed volcano.
A tourist comes to watch the volcanic eruption - Photo: Internet
After weeks of thousands of earthquakes on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, on March 19th, the ground cracked and lava began to flow to the surface. That's when a volcano in the Geldingadalir Valley near Fagradalsfjall was born. The whole of Iceland was fascinated by this new event, with hundreds of people flocking to witness the lava flow. Hearing about the eruption, photographer Stefan Forster immediately flew to Iceland. After completing his quarantine, he decided to stay at the foot of the volcano for a few days. Forster shared, "It was an incredible adventure. Every day, the mountain looked different."
To film these scenes, Forster brought along three Mavic 2 Pro drones. The main camera later "sacrificed" itself when it got close enough to the lava flow for a close-up view, but what it captured left the photographer with no regrets.
This newly formed volcano emerged after a rift in the Earth's crust and has yet to be named - Photo: Internet
"The success of flying through that lava screen was pure luck, and since the drones all have an automatic recording feature, I carefully recorded my remote control screen, just in case I lost the drone, at least I would have the images saved on my mobile. But this lucky drone survived until the very end. Its exterior was completely melted, there were many faults and malfunctions causing it to fly erratically, BUT in the end it still flew, and was still able to take pictures," he shared on his YouTube channel.
Are you ready to witness this intensely thrilling transformation of nature?
