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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.
Carlsbad Caverns | New Mexico, USA
A panorama consisting of three 6-second exposures. This isn't as colorful as many of my other Carlsbad photos, but it was a fun challenge. You can get an idea of how large this area is by looking at the walkway on the right, which is easier to see in the large view.
Any big patch of green is just too much temptation in the town that's
home to Callaway and other big golf companies. Carlsbad Safety Center.
Semt form me oPhome.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 1/2 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
35 mm Equiv Focal Length: 63 mm
ISO: 200
Annual 5K Elite Race in Carlsbad passing in front of Ocean House Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad, California
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Shopping Mall, Carlsbad, California
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Taken in October 2007. The creation of the Carlsbad Caverns began 250 million years ago with the creation of an enormous reef within an inland sea that covered this region. This reef formed from the remains of plants and animals and also from calcite that precipitated directly from the water. Cracks developed in the reef as it grew. Eventually the sea evaporated and the reef was buried under deposits of salts and gypsum. It’s amazing to think that this entire area was under water once!
Then, a few million years ago, uplift and erosion of the area began to uncover the buried rock reef. Rain, made slightly acidic from the air and soil, seeped down into the cracks in the reef, slowly dissolving the limestone and beginning the process that would form large underground chambers. At the same time, hydrogen sulfide gas from huge oil and gas deposits beneath the ancient reef dissolved in the percolating ground water to form sulphuric acid. The added power of this corrosive substance explains the size of the passageways. The exposed reef became part of the Guadalupe Mountains and the underground chambers became the caves of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Tamarack Beach Resort, Carlsbad, California...
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