(November 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Sweet! I'll have to ask him how he does it - there are more caverns all over the Blue Ridge that wouldn't be hard for me to get to, and I wouldn't mind going on a few explorations.
I know how he does it, because I've been with him many times when he was taking photographs. He uses a lot of different lenses, but what makes his photos so special is that he insists on using slide film (i.e., kodachrome) instead of digital cameras, and he uses a lot of rare, hard to obtain high power flash bulbs. He rarely uses an electronic flash unit, and even when he does, it is almost always only for close ups (relatively speaking).
As you may know, Kentucky is cave country, and so there are a lot of very large caves here, many within an hour's drive of my home.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero