After nearly 100 days of spewing molten lava, smoke, and ash, the Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain, on Christmas Day was declared over. In its fiery wake, some 3,000 properties were destroyed by lava, an area of 1,219 hectares (roughly 1,500 soccer fields), CBC reported. Yet, haunting and incredible photos remain to tell the tale. While the eruption left a nightmarish imprint in the minds of locals, instilling the power of nature, so too it left a record of images, both awesome and terrifying, taken by photographers. Travel and nature photographer Saúl Santos Díaz, 41, an island local from Fuencaliente, shared with The Epoch Times a host of stunning visuals documenting the geological event. Díaz, who travels the world shooting for various travel magazines, had for years dreamed of capturing a live volcano on camera, as his own father once did before him; although Díaz …