Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe mountains

I love the shot of that cow (or steer or bull or whatever!)

 

good shots

Are you able to post your photos any larger in the thread? I find it an unnecessary extra step, having to click on the photos to enlarge them.

 

Carlsbad caverns are certainly cool. Nice shots - love the idiot in the background of the second shot using flash!{blue glow} If the flash even reaches the formations they look flat and very dull.

The caverns are very hard to shoot and have gotten harder recently. They used to have many more lights down there then they do now. Of coarse the lights were funky colors like red and green and such - pretty but not very realistic. I went there summer before last and was not prepared for it so my only lens fast enough to deal with the low light was my adapted Nikkor 50mm f1.2{I did not have any fast m4/3 lenses at the time}. I got a few good shots but mostly they had slight motion blur.

When I went I was walking on a leg that had been busted badly a couple of months earlier. While down there several of the fixture screws broke and then the bone rebroke. I had to walk out of the cave on a busted leg! Luckily I had my walking stick/monopod with me. The adrenaline keep the pain at bay and I got to the elevator but once I got to the top the pain hit me. I had to use a wheelchair to get to the car.