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27-SEP-2004 C. G. Anderson

Webster Avenue Borehole

The Webster Avenue Borehole passage, when not half full of deep water, exhibits these charachteristics. It is over 3 miles in length. This image, highlighting several hundred feet of passage, was a tricky shot! Immediately before this image was made, one of my Tilt-a-mite flashbulb guns self destructed. These things come apart into about a million pieces of metal. Curtis Beasley (background) was standing in water getting progressively colder and I was feaverishly trying to hold this gun together to get one last parting shot. Because of my distance from the camera, I could not use the IR remote to trip the camera. Switching to self timer, I activated it and ran as fast as I could (note the slick mudbanks and rocks) to get into position. The IR filtered camera flash set off a slaved bulb to the left (and electronic T-32 to the right), which was our cue to set off the handheld bulbs. It's miraculous it all worked out...

Olympus C-8080WZ ,WCON-08D
2s f/2.8 at 7.1mm iso50 with Flash (IR filtered) WCON-08D full exif

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Sean06-Sep-2005 11:33
wonderful, capture, and a great story on "capturing the image"!
Henry Falkner05-Oct-2004 20:59
I am looking at all the cave photos. I am sitting here at a desk with a heater nearby, so it is difficult to comprehend that these caverns are totally dark until lit for the fractions of seconds by flash light. Not to mention the cold from the water you were standing in, slowly penetrating through to the bones. - Henry