Cathedral quarry tunnel

Cathedral Quarry in the Langdales was a mining place for Slate, in particular Green Slate, in the main area of the quarry I couldn't really see any vivible vivid green type of slate (beautiful as it is) I had a good while shooting in there and got some results which I'll post up at some point. It was only on my way out that I inspected this entrance tunnel (that I had earlier walked through a bit hastily) a bit more with the flashlight and with the moisture on the walls there were some really interesting colours to be seen so I decided to shoot inside here for a while with the extreme wide angle to see what could be had.

The exposure inside here was pretty tricky with the light coming in from behind and also the light at the end with the extreme dark bits in the middle, I've used the flashlight on the central areas of the tunnel during the exposure to try and really bring out the detail and colours of the rocks, a smattering of Autumn leaves and the reflections into the still water adding a bit of something else to it as well.

I usually hate the rain, but today it made me come here, and as it was still raining when I was coming to leave it made me stop and take more of a look around me than perhaps I would have otherwise, something I'll try and do a lot more often from now on.
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