Dragons Lair

Carlsbad Caverns, NM - If you ride the elevator down to Carlsbad Caverns instead of walking down, you will miss “The Green Lake Room.” This “room” is on...
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Carlsbad Caverns, NM - If you ride the elevator down to Carlsbad Caverns instead of walking down, you will miss “The Green Lake Room.” This “room” is one of the many scenic chambers within the 84 major cave complexes of the park. Unlike the many rooms noted for their stalagmites and stalactites, the specific highlight of this chamber is a green-hued pool of water found in a corner of its uppermost floor.

Carlsbad Caverns is a great place for the camera to capture amazing details that normal sight misses. There are no colored lights in Carlsbad Caverns, but the camera is much more sensitive to different types of light bulbs that are used to creatively illuminate. because of this, subtle colors are revealed - just one of photography’s unique attributes. In this image, for example, tungsten bulbs record as oranges and yellows while mercury bulbs show greens and blues. Using a long exposure and a warm camera filter, I was able to capture these dramatic effects in an underground panoramic vista titled “Dragon’s Lair”.
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