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Final station of the annual 5K Elite Racing in Carlsbad, California...
For more to see in Carlsbad watch YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJHm_FYy4HQ
Maria Sharapova, of Russia, fires a serve during her match against Tatiana Golovin, of France, at the Acura Classic tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007, in Carlsbad, Calif. Sharapova won 6-0, 6-3. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
My work sent me to El Paso, TX for a month to do some equipment testing. While I was there one weekend I ended up driving past Carlsbad Cavern National Park. I've heard of the Caverns for a long time and always wanted to check it out. I ended up going there on a Friday during Spring Break. To say it was crowded would be the understatement of the world. Despite tons of people walking around (taking a 30 second exposure with people crawling all over you and using flash on their point-and-shoot cameras is a huge pain in the ass) but I still managed to get some cool shots. When I passed by it again 3 days later on my way home, I decided to stop back in. This time I practically had the entire cave to myself which was amazing and allowed me to get a lot more very cool shots.
This was stop five, I think, on the Southwest adventure tour with Tom, Kathy, Wilson, Tofu, Reagan and myself. Carlsbad Cavern includes a large cave chamber, the Big Room, a natural limestone chamber which is almost 4,000 feet (1,220 m) long, 625 feet (191 m) wide, and 255 feet (78 m) high at the highest point. It is the fifth largest chamber in North America and the twenty eight largest in the world. Hard to imagine when you are down there, that this is only 5th. Kathy and I spent some time shooting the cave before the crazy speed demon kids showed up with Tofu and Grandpa. The tripods were a requirement for sure. I tried bracketing the images, but in the end the single darker images were my favorite. Shooting the family down there was as hard as I thought it would be. So was getting the boy to stay quite. Reverence? Not Wil. I think the whole cave listened to Wil sing songs from the Muppet's
Most Wanted film. Over, and over and over.....
Taken at the Carlsbad Flower fields...Amazing place...Literally millions of flowers spread over 50 acres...It was heavy overcast, good for macros but not so good for photos like this one...a blue sky would have made this composition even better...
OPen till 11th May, 100 miles from Los Angeles...a must visit location... www.theflowerfields.com
Carlsbad Fields north of San Diego celebrates fall each year with fields of yellow and orange marigolds with a pop of sunflowers.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
Kings Palace tour, a 1.5 hour ranger guided tour through four highly decorated scenic chambers. For a history of the cave, use the link below.
www.carlsbad.caverns.national-park.com/info.htm#his
F_IMG_1919, 24 Aug 05