Clockwork

Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala – November 2025

Getting here is the hardest hiking I have ever done. You climb Acatenango, you get about thirty minutes, and then you go again for Fuego, trying to beat the sun down. This frame is the payoff we were after.

Once we were up there it went off like clockwork, every ten or fifteen minutes. The flash catches your eyes first. A second later the boom arrives, and you do not really hear it. You feel it land in your chest.

The figures on the ridge are part of my group and part of somebody else’s. I kept them in because without them you have no idea how big any of this is.

We hauled all kinds of gear up there. By the time it mattered I was too cold and too spent to use any of it, so this is handheld on a Nikon Zf with the 24mm f/1.8.

Key Features:

• Limited Edition Print — Only 50 prints per size available
• Shot on Volcán de Fuego — Made at the first landing, at dusk, after climbing Acatenango the same day
• Erupting on a Fifteen Minute Clock — Fuego went off again and again straight through blue hour
• A Sound You Feel — The flash reaches your eyes a full second before the boom reaches your chest
• Archival Quality Print — Premium fine art paper and pigments for lasting brilliance