B IG PI C T U R E Mount Bromo, Java, Indonesia I awoke in the early hours of the morning and hiked up the mountainside to find this view onto Mount Bromo. Arriving in the darkness, with only starlight for illumination, I could barely make out the active volcano’s shape in the far distance. Wondering to myself whether this was going to be worth the lack of sleep, I waited until the first rays of light began to pierce the horizon. The sight that emerged stays with me to this day. The conditions were perfect, a brilliant white cloud framing Bromo as it billowed away before us. Every few minutes a new plume of smoke would rise from its broadest cone and I’d quickly snap as many images as I could. LUKE STACKPOOLE • PHOTOGRAPHER