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Timanfaya lava fields

Black and rust-red lava from the eighteenth-century eruptions, with almost nothing growing on it three centuries later.

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Between 1730 and 1736 a quarter of Lanzarote was buried in lava, and the result is a landscape that still looks freshly made: cones, ropes of frozen rock, and colour that runs from black through rust to ochre with almost no vegetation to interrupt it.

For a photographer the appeal is total simplicity. There is nothing in these frames but ground, sky and people, and the ground is a colour no other Spanish location offers. Light coloured clothing reads strongly against it; dark clothing disappears.

The national park itself is coach-tour territory with restricted access, but the lava fields extend far beyond the park boundary and much of that is freely accessible from the roadside — which is where sessions actually happen.

Meilleur moment pour photographier

Late afternoon, when low light brings out the rust tones

Conseils

Inside the national park you must stay with the official route; outside it, roadside access is open. Lava is sharp — proper shoes, and do not sit directly on it in fine fabric.

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La Geria vineyards

Vines grown one to a pit in black volcanic gravel, each behind its own low crescent wall — farming that looks like land art.

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