On Saturday our Dallas meetup group had a 5 hour private photography tour of the Longhorn Caverns in Burnet, Texas. Some of the group drove down on Friday afternoon but my friend Greg and I decided that we’d do the trip in one day…So that’s a 4 hour drive down and 4+ coming back! Left at 4:30 AM and arrived just in time to meet the rest of the group and head on down into the caverns. It really was fun! We had the mile long cavern trail all to ourselves for 5 hours! Here are some of the images I captured.
A little story about this “statue”…I know it looks like a dog, and in fact it does. When they found it back in the cave they assumed it had been carved, HOWEVER after much testing and analysing they discovered that in fact it was not carved by human but rather by nature. The flow of the waters in the cave created this…pretty cool huh? Also about this particular photo…do you see the ghost??? We were all playing with long exposures and trying to create this ghostly impression…kinda created was I was going for.
We named this insect the cave dwelling attack cricket…because that is what is does. Our guide Michael was bite by one and the little critter wouldn’t let go!!!
…and here’s the gang after 5 hours of fun!
This is amazing so much depth the colors are great. When I look at these I feel at times that my mind is playing tricks on me. Come check me out http://sfrelated.wordpress.com/
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This looks like an amazing adventure and you documented it beautifully. Your photos are inspiring. Can you share what camera equipment you used for this shoot?
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Melanee, I use a Canon EOS 6D with 18 – 55 lens..nothing fancy but it gets the job done! :). All post processing is in Lightroom and CS6
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I love these! Never seen the caves! Thanks for posting!
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BEYOND amazing…you have to be so proud of these captures!
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Great photos, have a nice week end.
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Stunning! I would love to visit these caves. Quite a trip from here in London…., maybe one day. Great you had the place to yourselves. I hear Antelope canyon. Has turned into a forest -of tripods!
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Exquisite photos of an awesome place. Thanks for sharing.
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That cricket is a Texas Cave Cricket, Ceuthophilus secretus.
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Thank you Steve.
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So beautiful! Just returned from a visit there and would love to purchase one of these gorgeous photos as a momento… Are they available for purchase?
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Sure thing Linda, which one(s) do you like? What size?
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