Mt. Shasta Caves

These were all taken with my Nikon CoolPix950 Digital Camera, all with automatic settings. Postproduction in most cases was minimal - cropping, gamma correction in most cases, sharpening sometimes, and the occasional defect removal.

At first I thought I had a bunch of duds - it all looked like crap. But with some gamma correction I was able to produce some neat results. I've come to the conclusion that you can't get a very accurate photo underground (well, I can't anyway) but you can get some neat effects all the same.

I'm sure it wasn't yellow at the time.

If I recall right, these are all part of a pipe-organ structure - it used to be possible to play different tones on the stalactites.

This is Steph on the boat on the way over to the caves. There was too much light in the picture and she was too dark to show without washing out the rest of the picture. This effect was produced by selecting all of the nearly-black pixels, gamma-correcting the crap out of them, and then doing a negative on the whole picture. I suppose it is art (you'll have to make that call for yourself).

A couple of steaming piles of stalagmite.