Skarphdinn snaps a picture of fellow dare-devil photographers hanging around the lip of a volcano, while lava rakes the sky, and a volcano is shown bubbling moodily
He added: 'I remember one night while shooting the lightning the wind suddenly changed directions and the black cloud started to reach me.
'I drove back from the area with dust in my mouth and nasty smell in the air. When I got away from the cloud, I shot some photos of the lightning.
'They were striking almost to the exact spot where I was earlier in the night. Two people died in a tragic way when they got lost that night after observing the volcano.'
Mr Skarphedinn, from Reykjavik, Iceland, took his incredible photos during the volcanic eruptions in Fimmvorduhals and the notorious Eyjafjallajokull - the eruption which caused havoc across Europe two years ago.
Both eruptions occurred in the same area of the south coast of Iceland but with very different results.
The volcano in Fimmvorduhals was a friendly volcano with flowing red lava but the second blasted monster ash clouds through the skies shutting down European air space.
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