Lot's Wife and the cockatoo
Cave photography is tricky, since they will not let you bring in a tripod most of the time and flashes look terrible, so you're left with high ISO and balancing on a hand rail. This was hand-held.
Lot's Wife and the Cockatoo is the most famous formation in Wombeyan Caves (in the Wollondilly Cave). Wombeyan used to be lit to emphasise all the fantasy figures and names but some time in the last decade, they relit it to emphasise the natural forms and to illustrate the science. Which is all very good and intellectually wholesome, but much less interesting to those of us who are not geologists in training. The fantasy names of cave features are interesting historically and give the caves a grandure - by fitting the figures into a narrative we've got half a chance of remembering them.
We spent most of our holiday this time in caves. Caves are a great place to be in the Australian summer. Even Miss I'm-a-cynical-14-yr-old who hates family trips and is traumatised by boat rides, actually likes caves.
Excuse the spelling mistake - I copied it from the State Records of NSW photograph, assuming they'd know best...
Lot's Wife and the cockatoo
Cave photography is tricky, since they will not let you bring in a tripod most of the time and flashes look terrible, so you're left with high ISO and balancing on a hand rail. This was hand-held.
Lot's Wife and the Cockatoo is the most famous formation in Wombeyan Caves (in the Wollondilly Cave). Wombeyan used to be lit to emphasise all the fantasy figures and names but some time in the last decade, they relit it to emphasise the natural forms and to illustrate the science. Which is all very good and intellectually wholesome, but much less interesting to those of us who are not geologists in training. The fantasy names of cave features are interesting historically and give the caves a grandure - by fitting the figures into a narrative we've got half a chance of remembering them.
We spent most of our holiday this time in caves. Caves are a great place to be in the Australian summer. Even Miss I'm-a-cynical-14-yr-old who hates family trips and is traumatised by boat rides, actually likes caves.
Excuse the spelling mistake - I copied it from the State Records of NSW photograph, assuming they'd know best...