Photos of Carlsbad Caverns, NM - 03

Carlsbad caverns is as much a beautiful lighting art-installation as it is a wonderful natural phenomenon. It has been designed expressly to enhance natural formations. Experienced cavers maintain this extraordinary array of hidden light sources so we can all enjoy it from the park's comfortably paved paths.

Stalagmites and stalactites in Carlsbad Caverns

WTF is that!?

An old ladder left behind by one of the original
exploratory expeditions into Calrbad Caverns

Carlsbad Caverns Film Photos - 02

Some more film photos of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Carlsbad Caverns Film Camera - 01

I took an old film Pentax down into Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.

WTF?

Cave popcorn!

I've dabbled a bit with fully manual black and white film photography. I hadn't messed with color too much. Not having access to color film processing other than the local store, I pretty much wound up having to scan and salvage what I could digitally. Overall, it was an important learning lesson. Still, I think I got a few interesting images out of it.