Caves Of The World
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Camera: Canon Eos 6D
Lens: EF17-40mmF/4L-USM
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Focal Length: 17 mm
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Picture One | This is in Luray Caverns in Virginia US. They give you a tour for 1 hour and you walk 1 mile inside the cavern. The cavern have millions of years of age and you can see it by the thickness of the stalactites and stalagmites. Very interesting and beautiful inside.
On this trip to West Virginia was also spent some time underground at the pretty Seneca Caverns, located south of Seneca Rocks area.
Captured here hand held at ISO 4000 ... gotta love these camera sensors and noise control.
My wife and I recently visited these caverns, formerly called Luray Cave, in Virginia, United States. The caverns have drawn increasing numbers of visitors since its discovery in 1878. The underground cavern system is generously adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone and mirrored pools. This view shows one of the gorgeous mirrored pools. Without argument, this is one of the most astonishingly beautiful cave systems I have been lucky to visit.
Luray Caverns in Virginia are one the largest private owned caverns you can visit in the eastern US. Located just outside of Shenandoah National Park. I went on a weekday after Labor Day to avoid the large crowds that go there during the summer. However you have to go through the cave escorted by a tour guide which means you are rushed a bit and camera tripods are not allowed. So I used my I-Phone for natural light and my Nikon for flash shots. More images in the weeks ahead.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Daylight streams into the cave's natural entrance,lighting a segment of the trail and revealing some haze in the air.
So I had to look it up. The difference between a 'cave' and a 'cavern' is that a cavern connotes a really big cave. Otherwise the words are interchangeable. English doesn't stop at one useful word when two or three are possible.
The surface of Uluru ( Ayers Rock) looks smooth from a distance but up close are the signs of the never ending attack of the weather, which results in the formation of fissures and cracks in the rock which over time become quite large caverns.
Went to Cherokee Caverns in late August. It's only open a few times a year located in the Solway community in west Knox county near Oak Ridge, TN.
This is a view inside of Mercer cavern looking down to the bottom where we would be walking. The Cavern is 16 stories down to the bottom and quite a few flights of stairs down. As you can imagine, the going down was a little easier than the way back to the top.
The cavern was discovered by Walter Mercer in 1885 and was eventually named after him. He was hoping the cavern would lead to a gold mine, but there wasn't any valuable ore here. Mr. Mercer did stop prospecting and decided to start giving tours inside the cavern system.
There have been stairs and lighting put into the cavern to make it easier to explore and give tours today. There are a lot of stalagmites and stalactites in the cavern along with a lot of other nice features. You can use a flash to take pictures, but I wanted to test of the sensor on my D500 and didn't use one. This was taken with the lighting in the cavern. Not too bad.
Photographed in Upper Montclair,NJ 4/6/2015
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"Named after the famous Spanish explorer who traveled through the area in 1540. Over its rich history it offered shelter for native Indians for centuries (a 2,000-year-old-Woodland Period burial was excavated by archeologists in the mid-1960s), became the first officially recorded cave in the U.S. (1796), and served as a Confederate gunpowder mining site during the Civil War. On the longest show caves in the Southeastern U.S., the main room of the caverns stands 12-stories high and is as large as a football field.
The caverns' onyx-marble stalagmites and stalactites are among the most concentrated accumulations to be found in America."
( Alabama Historical Association)
I could just see my dogs trying to get to the ceiling of this cavern to taste some of that nice looking 'bacon' :))
Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia
Originally called Bat Cave, Cathedral Caverns was opened to the public by Jacob Gurley in the 1950's. The cave was renamed because of its cathedral-like appearance. Purchased by the state in 1987, it was opened as a State Park in the summer of 2000. The first feature most people notice about Cathedral Caverns is its massive entrance. The huge opening measures 126 feet wide and 25 feet high, a possible world record for commercial caves. The grand entrance is only the beginning. Inside the cavern are some of the most beautiful formations Mother Nature has ever created including “Goliath”- one of the largest stalagmites in the world measuring 45 feet tall and 243 feet in circumference. Cathedral Caverns features many amazing sites: a "caveman" perched atop a flowstone wall, a "frozen" waterfall, a large stalagmite forest and a most improbable stone formation - a stalagmite that is 27 feet tall and 3 inches wide!