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This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) "LUGARES INCREIBLES volumen 2" curated by BYKTOR-f.d. and 2) "" also by BYKTOR-f.d.
The Buchan Caves are a group of limestone caves that include the Royal Cave and the Fairy Cave, located south-west of Buchan, in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. They have a total length of between 3 and 4 Km, and six entrances.
The limestone rock at Buchan was laid down during the Devonian period about 300 – 400 million years ago. At the time, the sea covered this area of East Gippsland which was alive with shellfish and coral. Their remains were deposited in layers and over the years compacted to form limestone. The caves were formed by solution of the limestone.
The Buchan Caves are located approximately 360 Km from Melbourne, along the Princes Highway, north of Lakes Entrance. (Wikipedia)
Tours were conducted by candlelight and magnesium ribbon from 1907 until in the 1920s. During the 1920s and up until 1970, the caves were lit by power generated at the Buchan Caves Reserve. In 2008 both Royal and Fairy Caves were rewired with low heat and low voltage LEDs.
The magnificent Royal Cave is a through-tour with a separate entrance and exit. Connected by intimate passages, the cave features a number of large, heavily decorated chambers, including the Octopus Chamber, the massive Princess Royal Chamber, and the Skeleton Chamber. Noted decorations include the Crystal Portal, Niobe's Bower, Font of the Gods, Indian Rugs and the Temple of Peace (The Buchan Caves by Kent Henderson).
This is a handheld HDR image taken in the Royal Cave. No tripods or flashlights are allowed in the cave. The Royal Cave is famous for its beautiful calcite-rimmed pools.
This abandoned building on an abandoned farm was a photographic studio for the farm woman. On a pitch black night, I took my camera and a flash light to make an attempt of created a flashlight photograph. Not completely successful, but a lot of fun and somewhat interesting.
Took out the batteries and backlit the led end, I liked the reflections up the sides of the barrel.
Happy Macro Monday !
The flashlight, we explained to the campers
Is so captivating because it brings light
To dark places
Combining the positive
And negative within, you can
Bring enlightenment to the world
One circle of clarity
At a time, illuminate your
Path, or that of another
Step by
Step
Trying the "paint-with-flashlight" technique for the long exposure challenge this week. Not original, but fun anyway. 30 second exposure.
Macro Mondays theme - Rule
This is an old calf drench bottle, used for giving a liquid or medicine preparation.
© 2016 Nicola Riley
Silver Lining by Alberto Guinea.
Ya tenía yo ganas de rayos, encima pillarlos en una bonita noche sin luna que no falto de nada... Espero que os guste.....
Was groping around in the dark last evening carrying a flashlight with dying batteries. I could still see, but my vision was reduced to a narrow cone of light. An apt metaphor for the low sun angle of December in the northern hemisphere. The diminution of sunlight gives a similar effect. I can still see, but the shadowy light changes the way I see things. The effect is even more pronounced on partly cloudy days when sun and shadow become intertwined. Foreground objects are revealed with greater clarity than those in the distance. And depth is enhanced by the oblique rays of sunlight as the sun remains very low in the sky, even at midday. The virtual absence of snow this winter has created a third dimension to this shadow play: the interplay of cool and warm light, normally lost in the snowpack, but revealed here as the afternoon sun casts a golden glow over dormant grass and tree limbs under a backdrop of brooding clouds. Even now, the sun is beginning to regain its rightful place in the sky. Until it gets there, I suppose it's time for some new batteries for my flashlight.
Freezing bubbles in the winter cold is magical, but what happens when you place a swirling freezing orb of ice on a flower? Magic. View large!
This freezing bubble is delicately placed in the center of a Gerbera Daisy, something definitely out of place in the winter landscape but also something that adds a lot of life to the image. Initial experiments were with roses, but they didn’t look quite as good. It’s a concept I’ll revisit, but for now the daisy wins as most successful experiment. The radial petals also allows me to carefully place one petal below the main arrangement to fill in the gap between the other petals and the snow.
At first, the bubble wouldn’t freeze. The flower has too much radiant heat from being inside that I couldn’t get anything like this to show up. After leaving the flower outside for about 15 minutes, the bubbles began to behave properly. After about an hour or so in the cold, the flower was beginning to wilt and fade, so there is a window of time you need to work in. Roses tend to last much longer, which gives me even more ideas to explore there.
The image is lit with two flashlights. One light is very directional and aimed at a distance to beam through the bubble, which creates a very pleasing backlit glowing feel. A second flashlight of equal brightness was placed close by, illuminating the underside of the flower which in turn reflected light back down onto the snow. A solid 20-30 minutes was spent using flashes, continuous flashlights, combinations of both, and in all different positions to get the lighting feel you see here. I would let one bubble freeze solid as a “prop” for me to preview my lighting arrangement, and then blow a fresh bubble when everything was in place.
In the end, we have a flower emerging from the snow to give birth to hundreds of snowflake-like specks of frost on a winter night. It’s not how real snowflakes are born, but it’s a fun way to imagine it.
If you enjoy my winter macro photography, you’ll love my book Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/book/ - it details everything you could ever want to know about snowflakes and extreme macro photography related to photographing them. While it’s focused on the skyborne crystals and not the ones we make here on earth, it’s still a great read for anyone with a macro lens in the winter!
This shot was a really fun one. I ran around my yard waving flashlights and got these really cool trails. Hopefully I didn't wake anyone up!
I went to the park Sunday evening, hoping to find long-jawed orbweavers to take portraits of, but no luck - only spotted one of the kind with the jaws, and it was out too far from the boardwalk to reach. Dusk was upon me as I made my way back through the woods to my car, but I had a flashlight and was on the lookout for other spiders.
Right near the visitor center, I discovered this beauty hanging from some leaves. I tried to photograph her there, but she was moving around to much. So I invited her home with me.
She was moderately cooperative for a little while - long enough to get a good number of shots in - but finally started running, so I put her away. This morning I returned her back to the branch where I found her. I was thankful for the opportunity for this kind of shoot with this species of spider - usually I find them away in the woods when I have nothing to collect them in. You'll be seeing more of her, but may have to wait a year. ;-)
This is a manual focus stack made from four shots.
27 Arachtober 2015, # 5/5
Arrowhead Spider, Verrucosa arenata
Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, VA
An old incandescent style flashlight bulb and the new LED bulbs. Photo for this week's Macro Mondays theme, "evolution."