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I visited Iceland in the summer and it didn’t take long to fall in love with the island. Unfortunately 2 things were missing that would have made the trip even better: Ice-Caves and Aurora. I had to go back in the winter and go back I did!
Willie, Alan, Rebecca and I spent 10 days exploring Iceland at the end of February and we quickly checked off our 2 bucket-list items. A chance run-in with Colby Brown, Joe Azure, and Brian Matiash highlighted our first day in the glacial ice-caves. A day later, Oskar from Ice Guides threw us into his massive Super Jeep and off we went to Crystal Cave.
Crystal “Cave” was a network of 3 sections of carved out glacier that creates cavernous tunnels for us to explore. Prepped with helmets, flashlights and our cameras we had almost 2 hours to explore this cave, part of the Svinafellsjokull glacier in Vatnajokull National Park. I loved the way the ice curled around and pointed out, away from the entrance, towards the waiting moon. A recent snow storm built a snow-arch, which would fall shortly after our visit. Bucket-list item complete! Later that night we would check off another item: northern lights (photo coming soon!).
Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8:
24mm, f/11, 1/50 sec, ISO 320
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Grand Central Terminal is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100.
The Main Concourse is the center of Grand Central. The space is cavernous and usually filled with bustling crowds. The ticket booths are here, although many now stand unused or repurposed since the introduction of ticket vending machines. The large American flag was hung in Grand Central Terminal a few days after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The main information booth is in the center of the concourse. This is a perennial meeting place, and the four-faced clock on top of the information booth is perhaps the most recognizable icon of Grand Central. Each of the four clock faces is made from opal, and both Sotheby's and Christie's have estimated the value to be between $10 million and $20 million. Within the marble and brass pagoda lies a "secret" door that conceals a spiral staircase leading to the lower level information booth.
In Greek mythology, the Naiads (Ancient Greek: Ναϊάδες) were a type of nymph (female spirit) who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.
They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolid.
Naiads were associated with fresh water, as the Oceanids were with saltwater and the Nereids specifically with the Mediterranean, but because the Greeks thought of the world's waters as all one system, which percolated in from the sea in deep cavernous spaces within the earth, there was some overlap. Arethusa, the nymph of a spring, could make her way through subterranean flows from the Peloponnesus, to surface on the island of Sicily.
Bermondsey Underground Station, London, England
Still digging into the archives and many thanks for your kind comments on my previous post, nice to see some familiar names and also nice to see some new names, was nice to see my photo getting explored.
One of my favourite stations this, Bermondsey however at the time you wouldn't believe how long I had to wait to get this scene so empty.
Love the cavernous feel of this station and the way the light beams down from above into the station below, creates some awesome shadows and details.
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I Followed The Lights To the Mojave Barn (4904)
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Near the top of a rise is an immense barn, rising up out of the Mojave Desert amidst the Joshua Trees and the pines, where the stars shine more brightly. And sometimes, if you are a night photographer and you ask really nicely, you could enter the barn and shoot light out from every crack. I was such a night photographer. Dusty but grinning from ear to ear, I walked through the cavernous two-story structure, throwing out warm beams of light with my faithful ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device while my camera faced the barn and registered all 195 seconds of the exposure in this resultant image.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 195 seconds f/8ISO 320. October 2019.
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Excerpt from www.cliftonhill.com/attractions/dinosaur-adventure-golf:
As one of the nation’s largest miniature golf courses, Dinosaur Adventure Golf features two 18-hole courses, "Raptor" and "T-Rex" for a total of 36 holes. It also boasts three distinct decorative ponds with fast-moving rapids and bubblers, as well as a 50-foot high active steam-erupting volcano that lets golfers play directly through a realistically eerie, cavernous volcanic interior on their way to the 18th hole.
All of this is spread out over a massive 70,000 square foot playing surface, and populated by 50 astonishingly realistic and life-sized dinosaurs — many which loom over 30-feet high.
A digital sound system complements the scene by pumping out jungle and nature sound effects, which are sure to make even the most sceptical golfers wonder if they’ve been transported back in time hundreds of millions of years.
Dinosaur Adventure Golf is located behind the Niagara SkyWheel, with the entrance to the immediate right of the SkyWheel. Call 905-358-3676 for hours of operation, ticket prices and other helpful information about this epic Niagara mini-putt experience!
Barcelona's Cathedral of St Eulalia is a magnificent example of Catalan gothic and dates mostly from the 13th to 15th centuries with a 19th century neo-gothic west facade. The building has an unusual profile with no less than five towers, two tapering octagonal belfries flank the chancel in place of transepts, whilst three pierced steeples crown the main facade (the octagonal tower supporting the main one is original late 15th century gothic, it's openwork spire and the two small flanking steeples date from the 19th century). There is a small and elegant cloister on the south side of the nave.
The cathedral consists of aisled nave, chancel and apse (under which is the crypt containing St Eulalia's tomb)as a single main vessel without transepts surrouned by numerous chapels, seemingly tunneled out of the thick walls in the dark an cavernous interior.
There wasn't time to go inside the cathedral on this occasion and much of the exterior was lost under scaffolding. Luckily I had already been inside on my previous visit to Barcelona in 2004, when we also ascended to the roof via a lift in the north tower.
Norrington Room
Blackwell's Books in Oxford is popular with tourists. Most
visitors simply browse the piles of Harry Potter, Inspector Morse, Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis books and then leave. But if you take the stairs leading downstairs, you’ll find the Norrington Room, a huge basement of academic books.
The store first opened in the 1870s at 50 Broad Street, but was successful enough that it grew to take over some of the neighboring buildings. But by the 1960s, it had grown so large that there was nowhere to go but down, so the original Victorian basement of the space was excavated and turned into the cavernous room you see today.
The Norrington Room was named after Sir Arthur Norrington, who was then President of Trinity College. At the time of its creation, it was the world’s largest single display of books in one room, holding over 150,000 volumes on two and a half miles of shelves.
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh
Artist Gijs Van Vaerenbergh marks the highest point of the belgian nature reserve ‘hoge mouw’ with this work entitled ‘a giant sculpture.’ the permanent, site-specific piece offers the viewer a connection with the natural and cultural history of the region. the artist created the sculpture to occupy the natural, forested site near kasterlee, belgium — a varied landscape with coniferous forests on sandy soil, moors, fens, open sand drifts, hollow roads and streams.
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh sites ‘a giant sculpture’ along the highest point of the ridge, atop a sand dune at the hoge mouw which measures nearly one hundred feet in height. the sculpture is conceived as a faceted head, with a form that recalls the shape also of a dome. it is made up of 2,115 welded metal triangles with a thickness of six millimeters. in a number of spots, pieces have been left out, making the hollow space occupiable, with a cavernous entrance on one side.
Early morning light sliced through the windows of the former Lackawanna Railroad roundhouse on September 29, 2019 as coal smoke filled its cavernous space signalling another day of steam railroading along the former Pocono mainline.
Actually, this amazing space is named Dahlgren Hall, and it's located at the U.S. Naval Academy.
In 1911, some of the nation's first naval aviators flew over Annapolis in a plane built by the Wright brothers - a Navy B-1. Now a full-size, exact replica of that plane is proudly displayed in the hall.
For this shot I was standing in a corner of the second floor, which does not extend the whole length of the hall. In fact, it's basically an interior balcony. Dahlgren Hall is quite a cavernous space. The full effect is really felt when standing on the main floor in the opposite corner, but I preferred this comp photographically.
A little background on Dahlgren Hall, if you're so inclined, from the Naval Academy's website...
"Dahlgren Hall, designed by architect Ernest Flagg in 1898, was completed in 1903. It was named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, U. S. Navy, a Civil War inventor of scientifically designed, large-caliber naval guns.
Dahlgren Hall has served variously as an armory, indoor drill area and a Weapons Department laboratory.
Dahlgren Hall is an example of the Beaux Arts architecture used by the Academy’s principal architect Ernest Flagg. Flagg is credited with reform in American architecture that embraced pragmatic, inexpensive designs to ease the housing crisis that developed during the Great Depression.
He applied these ideals in his design for the Academy to turn what an 1898 edition of ‘‘Scientific American” deemed ‘‘a motley assemblage of buildings” into a monumental design fit for the nation’s highly respected naval training institution.
At first glance, Dahlgren Hall appears to mimic the design of 19th century European train stations. The large, utilitarian design of the building was meant to reflect its intended purpose as an armory, and the interior was left intentionally bare with exposed metal trusses and large, imposing metal gates.
In addition to serving as the Academy’s armory, Dahlgren Hall was the site of graduation from 1903 to 1957 and has hosted the most graduation ceremonies of any site at the Academy."
Steam and smoke filled the cavernous space inside the former Lackawanna Railroad roundhouse on September 29, 2019 as Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 slipped out of her stall for another day of hauling the Scranton Limited along the former Pocono mainline.
The Chand Baori is a stepwell built over a thousand years ago in the Abhaneri village of Rajasthan. It is one of the largest stepwells in the world and also one of the most beautiful ones. Located in the eastern part of the province of Rajasthan, it was built by King Chanda somewhere in the 9th century. Stepwells, also called bawdi or baori, are unique to this nation. The wells have steps built into the sides that lead down to the water. Chand Baori one was built during the 8th and 9th centuries and has 3,500 narrow steps arranged in perfect symmetry, which descend 20m to the bottom of the well. Centuries ago, the stepwells were built in the arid zones of Rajasthan to provide water all year through.
About 64 feet deep, it is India's largest and deepest stepwells with 13 floors and was built in the 9th century for water harvesting. It was so named as it was built by King Chand Raja from the Gujara Pratihara clan, who claim to be the descendant of Lord Ram's younger brother Laxman. The Pratihara dynasty was at their peak during 6th-10th century AD, and also ruled over other parts of Rajasthan. Their capital was Mandore near Jodhpur.
The baori has a precise geometrical pattern, hard to find in this age. The steps form a magical maze and the consequent play of light and shadow on the structure gives it a captivating look.It has an enclosed rectangular courtyard kind of structure. Upon entering you reach a jharokha (windows).
Descending the stairs on the left, you can see the cavernous baori narrowing towards the bottom, criss-crossed with double flights of steps on three sides to reach the water surface down below.
The stairs encircle the water on the three sides while the fourth side boasts of a pavillion with three storeys with beautiful carved jharokhas, galleries supported on pillars and two projecting balconies enshrining beautiful sculptures.
Santa Fe F7 AB set inside the cavernous Erecting Shop building in the old SP Sacramento Shops complex.
The California State Railroad Museum has use of two large buildings remaining from the once massive complex and plans to create a Railroad Technology museum here adjacent to the main museum campus. These photos are from a 2005 tour.
The porticoed Clarendon Building of 1715 in the distance.
One the left hand side, the building with the green shutters is Blackwell's original bookshop, an Oxford institution.
They first started trading here on January 1st 1879 and have expanded in every direction ever since, wrapping themselves around the tiny White Horse pub. Their most famous expansion was downwards when in 1966 they excavated a vast and cavernous basement known as the Norrington Room. It was named after Sir Arthur Norrington, who was then President of Trinity College next door. At the time of its creation, it was the world’s largest single display of books in one room, holding over 150,000 volumes on two and a half miles of shelves. It is still a shock to see the scale of it and a delight for any lover of books.
Squeezed between Blackwell's shops is the tiny White Horse pub dating to the 16th century. A small narrow pub, it reminds me of the inside of an old sailing ship and was popular filming location for Inspector Morse.
Messier 20, or The Trifid Nebula is an unusual combination of dark, reflective, and emission nebula, plus an interesting open cluster of stars. It is located in an H II region in Sagittarius. The distance from out vantage is around 5200 light years away. It’s a little over 21 light years across, and is fairly bright at Magnitude 6.3. This makes it a fairly popular target with amateur astronomers.
I wanted to highlight the fine Ha filaments that surround this popular target. Ha areas are typically red in astronomical photos. The central area is bright, and tends to have a more washed out colour. On closer inspection, there is a terrific amount of detail running through the lobs. It looks like there are many dark cavernous channels intersecting this area. Each branching out into tiny filaments.
Exposure Details:
Lum 46X900
Red 12X900
Green 8X900
Blue 11X900
Ha 18X1800 8
Total time 28.25 hours
Instruments Used:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Software Used
CCDStack (calibration, alignment, data rejection, stacking)
Photoshop CS 6 (Image processing)
In Silver Falls SP, a short but slippery trail with 78 stairs takes you to North Falls where you can walk behind the waterfall along a large cavernous cutout. This was a challenging waterfall to photograph because of the angle but I love this image as it conveys the mood of the dark forest punctuated with vibrant pops of autumn color.
Excerpt from niagarafallstourism.com:
As one of the nation’s largest miniature golf courses, Dinosaur Adventure Golf features two 18-hole courses: 'Raptor' and 'T-Rex', 3 distinct decorative ponds with fast-moving rapids and bubblers and a 50 foot high “active” steam-erupting volcano that lets golfers play directly through a realistically eerie, cavernous volcanic interior.
All of this is spread out over a massive 70,000 square foot playing surface, and populated by 50 astonishingly realistic and life-sized dinosaurs - many which loom over 30 feet high. A digital sound system compliments the scene by pumping out jungle and nature sound effects, which are sure to make even the most sceptical golfers wonder if they’ve been transported back in time hundreds of millions of years.
This is the first image from this year's Black Friday / Saturday desert exploration adventure and camping trip. I love the way the light reflects around this curve in this slot canyon near the bottom opening creating the color spectrum effect caused by the light progressively reflecting less and less of the color spectrum as it bounces from wall to wall going deeper into the canyon. The worlds created by the dark and cool yet vibrant light in these slot canyons is surreal. It gives you the feeling of walking through the inside of the earth, yet in a way that is distinctly different from entering a cave. When you emerge on the other side, the feeling is like stepping from one world into another.
What else is fascinating is that the lumps of texture in this deep canyon and the surrounding area resemble volcanic pumice, yet they are in fact fossilized corals – remnants of an ancient sea ecosystem that once existed here. After the waters receded, the entire sea floor was exposed, leaving it open to erosion by the elements. As a new arid desert climate formed, seasonal rain storms would create flash floods, which would gush forcefully down any opening available in the earth's crust, very rapidly eroding the soft sandstone and mudstone in weak areas, and creating these cavernous slot canyons. Today, the floor of this canyon is littered with huge raven feathers and tumbleweeds, other icons of the present-day desert ecosystem. This one is about 75-100 feet deep and only a few feet wide. Near the opening of the canyon, 6-inch intact fossilized sand dollars can be seen sitting on and embedded in the surface of the sandstone sediment layers, like an entire beach frozen in time.
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In Silver Falls SP, a short but slippery trail with 78 stairs takes you to North Falls where you can walk behind the waterfall along a large cavernous cutout. This was a challenging waterfall to photograph because of the angle but I love this image for the dark forest detail and pops of autumn color.
Heading home after a meal, I espied this empty restaurant with a solitary waiter, alone in a cavernous space, seemingly looking forlornly at the empty tables.
The interior design of this hotel is quite cavernous and a design that I have seen replicated in buildings, shopping centres and malls around the world! It did tend to echo a bit due to all the hard surfaces. Breakfasts were served on the ground floor and every morning the tables were rearranged for it. We did get a room on the ground floor originally but it was too noisy at times and transferred to the relative peace that the top floor would give!
A center bottom to top shot of the interior space of Gasometer Oberhausen. Situated atop the ground floor, where an exhibition on variety of beauty in art is on display, the cavernous space is a virtual canvas for the "320° Light" installation by Urbanscreen, enthralling visitor with dazzling displays of ever-changing light patterns.
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Teatro Balconi features opulent Art Nouveau architecture. The ravages of time have left this cavernous auditorium in an advanced stage of decay.
For the past year I've been involved in shoot a music video series called "Cavernous" for Minnesotan percussionist Zack Baltich, www.instagram.com/zackbaltichmusic/, and yesterday we released the video we shot at this incredibly cool location last winter!
Here is the link again: youtu.be/VLpRy8LrzGU
Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments, feedback is appreciated!
And be on the lookout for three more Minnesota caves as locations for percussion music videos from Zack Baltich.
40022, complete with "LACONIA" stencilled on its bodyside, fills York's cavernous roof with sound as it waits to leave with 1N13 09:20 Great Yarmouth - Newcastle on 25th July 1981. Turns out the loco had to be assisted from Darlington by 37072 (see thread below).
Zenit EM f/4 125th/sec Ektachrome 400
Were it not for the deceptive scale (see the normal-sized cockpit windows in the blue line at the nose), NASA's aptly named Super Guppy cargo carrier would look more at home swimming in Horsepen Bayou than breaking out of the clouds several hundred feet above. With a 25-foot diameter hatch and bay, this plane and its Pregnant Guppy predecessor have carried critical cargo for the space agency since the early years of the Apollo program. Its vintage 1960s cockpit seems quite primitive compared to current standards but its cavernous cargo space is like nothing else in the air. Its primary duty station is Ellington Field, about five miles from the bayou, so it is a somewhat regular visitor.
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture.
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm VRII
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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Schouwburgplein, Pathé multiplex (slightly cut from all sides)
The IFFR started in 1972, as Film International Rotterdam. The founding director was the late Huub Bals. The attendance to the opening film of the first festival was a bit of a disaster – it attracted only 17 viewers, and the alderman of cultural affairs of the city of Rotterdam refused to deliver his opening speech for those few lost in the cavernous Calypso theatre.
At the start of the festival, only 700 of the total 15.000 available tickets were bought. Bals had to intensify his marketing efforts. One of the things he did was distribute leaflets in the centre of Amsterdam with the text: “ Als je niet bij Film International bent geweest, moet je verder je smoel houden als er ergens over film wordt gepraat” (If you didn’t visit the Film International, you should shut up in places where film is discussed).
The subtitle of this year's festival, “Geniet van een ongekende ervaring“ (Enjoy an unprecedented experience), sounds still a bit imperative, but it’s only a vague echo of Bals’ edgy slogan.
Behind the Pathé Multiplex is the 'Calypso' residential building (William Alsop).
This is number 22 of the IFFR album.
But the space does more than just transmit natural light through an opening; it collects a larger view of the sky’s changing conditions. This is thanks to Sky Reflector-Net, a 79-foot-tall tensile structure suspended inside the conical atrium. The combination sculpture–daylighting device was conceived by artist James Carpenter, who then collaborated with Grimshaw and Arup to fine-tune it and integrate it with the architecture and engineering. Composed of a steel cable net and 952 perforated, folded aluminum panels, it drives light deep into the cavernous space. At the same time, it draws the eye up to a luminous field of blue-gray tones. And for good measure, it conceals the hulking mechanical infrastructure. Carpenter likens the perceptual effect of the net to “folding the sky down into the station.”
"Cavernous View:" This large elevated cave overlooks some of Sedona's beautiful red rock spires across the way and has a unique shape to its opening.
--The Great Market Hall--
-The cavernous structure was supported by slender steel columns, allowing for extensive sunlight to make its way into the market. The attractive outside facade was by Zsolnay, a Hungarian tile factory with an international reputation.
Sometimes referred to as "a symphony in iron", this ornate market had a canal that ran through the center, allowing goods to be delivered to the market's traders via barge. According to historic records, the early market was divided down the center by a thruway for wagons. Wholesalers were situated on the west and retailers on the east. There were also designated areas for meat traders, fish stalls, poultry stalls, and vegetable, fruit, cheese, and butter stands.
Inside a massive, closed warehouse. One could spend days wandering this cavernous space. After closing, this building was intentionally left to rot with the plans of demolition. Workers are slowly removing valuable equipment but there is a long journey ahead with the environmental cleanup of the entire property.
A pair of 1 trains pass each other in the cavernous station at 181st Street.
181st Street, Manhattan, NY
Blustery cold sunday's need a bit of golden glow don't they? To infuse the atmosphere with a bit of warmth and light and energy.
Do you ever crouch down low when you're in the forest? Just to see what life looks like from a snails view? How a mushroom can suddenly be an oversized lamp or the crevices of a tree root can look like a cavernous mysterious tunnel? I think that's what I love about photography, taking my camera and sticking it into the grass or moss or flowers and seeing what life would look like if I were a bug.
Here's my entry to the Summer Joust's vignette category!
From the colorful coral below, to the cavernous docks within, to the lofty towers above, this castle is the ideal dwelling for a person of influence.
Props to my younger sister who helped formulate the idea, and to my brother who made the awesome kraken.
Various items of heritage rollingstock safely stored undercover at The Large Erecting Shop in Eveleigh
Hilton Chicago has the reputation for hosting every President of the United States as a guest from the time the Stevens Hotel opened in 1927. There is a fascinating early hotel history from 1927 with the Stevens family of Chicago who built the immense hotel only to lose it in bankruptcy with the Great Depression. The Stevens was the largest hotel in the world when it opened its doors to guests. Six years later, Ernest Stevens was on trial for embezzlement, his brother committed suicide after the family’s insurance business went bankrupt, and the U.S. Army purchased the Stevens Hotel in World War II to house soldiers. In 1945, the property was acquired by Conrad Hilton, and the immense hotel property has carried the Hilton name for more than sixty years.
Stevens Hotel was conceived in the roaring 20s and designed to be the largest and one of the most opulent hotels in the world. Within six years of its grand opening, the Stevens family name was rocked by embezzlement scandals and suicide that brought down their Chicago family business empire.
The Stevens Hotel opened in 1927 on South Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago. The 28-story hotel had 3,000 rooms, fine shops, cavernous ballrooms and even mini-golf on the roof.
The landmark Chicago hotel was built by the Stevens family who had built their family wealth with the Illinois Life Insurance Company. J.W. Stevens had already built and owned the La Salle Hotel that opened in 1909 with 1,000 rooms as one of Chicago’s finest hotels in the loop. La Salle Hotel was demolished in July 1976.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was son of Ernest Stevens, the hotelier who was tried and convicted of embezzling millions from the family’s insurance company to financially prop up their family-owned Chicago hotels. Ernest Stevens’ conviction was later overturned on appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; however, the family was bankrupted and two of Chicago’s finest hotels went into receivership.
This may apply as much to the photographer ... however, my fiancee has an upcoming (Mahler) performance and took an opportunity while dinner was cooking to pull out her oboe and give it a whirl. The living room in our new place is quite cavernous, so it is wonderful to listen to her!
I hit the road with a new buddy I made on Instagram this morning. Last night we were trying to decide between one of the waterfall hikes in the Gorge or something else. We eventually settled on trying to locate a hidden lava tube near Carson, WA that we had both heard about and see photos of. After some back road adventuring and a quick quarter mile hike we found our hole in the ground and wandered in. Inside we found a huge, cavernous, cathedral shaped lava tube with striated walls and sections of floor alternating between high piles of boulder and smooth sand and cooled lava. We spent some time shooting long exposures, painting the walls with our headlamps. There's no darkness quite like being 1/4 mile under the surface of the earth and turning all your lights off.
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Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark.
It is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world.
In April 1994 the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern. In July of the same year, an international competition was launched to select an architect for the new gallery. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the winning architects in January 1995. The £134 million conversion to the Tate Modern started in June 1995 and was completed in January 2000.
The most obvious external change was the two-story glass extension on one half of the roof. Much of the original internal structure remained, including the cavernous main turbine hall, which retained the overhead travelling crane.
From the lofty vantage point provided by the US Forest Service's access road, a westbound NS freight train scorches the rails along the floor of the cavernous ravine created by the former Southern Railway's realignment projects of the 1960s on the afternoon of April 5, 2025, near Dead Ox Hollow, KY.
The most vivid memories I carry with me are those of the innumerable travel journeys that I have undertaken. In all those special places, I still remember the sight of the light falling on the landscape around, the sounds of gurgling water within the rustling forest, the smell of fresh earth after a rainstorm, and the grandeur of nature's marvelous handiwork. The photographic memories from those halcyon days serve as a reminder to me that there is no dearth of people, places and activities to be amazed by and enjoyed at.
One of those memories was my second trip to the desert southwest, covering the beautiful landscapes and waterscapes of Utah and Arizona. And when I look back at the photos from that trip, I keep coming back to a gorgeous sunset from the cavernous canyon of Horseshoe Bend near Page Arizona. It is one of those gaping holes whose immensity, next to the Grand Canyon, will take some time to sink in. Being my second visit, I took to the time to actually savor the rugged landscape all around before digging in for my camera for those opportunistic shots. Having lugged around a wide lens proved fruitful on this journey as it enabled me to capture that gaping hole!
Horseshoe Bend
AZ USA
She is infinitely vast like water ever changing, cascading from a cavernous cliff. Beauty is not perfection but rather complexity.
Model: Ashley Dowd
Dress: Michelle Hébert
This is Calatrava's magnificent Sala Principal at the Palau des les Artes in Valencia. This is one of the reasons I went to Valencia. I'd seen various shots of this which immediately captivated me - but seeing this for real - wow what a space - its cavernous but the beautiful sweeping lines, and again the repetition, use of mosaics all amazing - and surprisingly quiet too.
Technically this was a huge challenge - I was on a guided tour with 15 or so other people. We arrived here and our guide started her spiel. The space was dark much darker than I'd anticipated - but I learnt later that the roof was closed The rest of the party were already in the centre - just where I wanted to be, so I had to wait until everyone was leaving to quickly get to my position. I'd fired off a couple of test shots. As everyone was leaving I shot 6 shots - handheld in portrait at ISO 3200. They're the only shots I took - but they worked. Darker than my recent work I know - but you have to adapt to the conditions - I will be back - and hopefully when the roof is open to flood the space with light - but for now - I'm happy
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Technical Details
Fuji XT-1
Fuji XF 18mm-135mm @18mm
f4.5
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ISO 3200
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The inaugural ITT Hub trade show took place in Farnborough over 2 days at the end of June 2021. Promoting "Innovation & Technology in Transport", the show featured many trucks, vans and around 45 buses, coaches and minibuses, most of which were located in an area next to the main cavernous hall.
Exhibitors from the bus industry included ADL, Altas Auto, BYD, Caetanobus, Dawsongroup, EVM, Harris, Ilesbus, Iveco, Mercedes-Benz, Switch (Optare), Wright Bus, and Pelican Yutong.
The next ITT Hub event is scheduled for May 11th/12th 2022.
In the cavernous hull, with its wooden ribs and stringers, the Bugis boat builders are at work. They are renown throughout Indonesia for their skills, building the Makassar schooners that trade between the islands. The Bugis don’t use blueprints, they construct the vessels by eye.
Nikon F. 28mm lens. Ektachrome scan
Sulawesi, Indonesia. 1978. © David Hill