This man photographs the beauty of volcanoes

National Geographic shortlisted Herculean Stove by Florent Mamelle for its 2016 Nature Photographer of the Year contest in the landscape category.

Think of a volcano.

For most of us, that picture is shaded in black and red, a Vesuvian volley of ash and columns of gas, a catastrophic flow of molten lava. Such Vesuvian or Plinian eruptions are named after the huge 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, which destroyed the Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii – and which impressed such iconic imagery on popular consciousness.