The grandness of a giant hall, deep down in a pitch dark mine is hard to grasp when walking around with a torch. It was when I first reviewed some reasonably well exposed flash shots that the colors, textures and shadows started to become visualized. However – a shot is a shot and seeing it in "real time" for your own eyes while being there has been a wish for a long time.

Okay – so how do you generate a strong source of light that is not just a narrow beam, but rather something that illuminates in all directions like a bare light-bulb? A set huge incandescent lamps ? Okay – how do you generate some thousands of watts of electric power ? A portable power generator ? Let’s get real – just getting down there with the basic equipment needed is tough enough.

A home-made kerosene flame-thrower did a pretty good job, although the colors became a "a bit distorted". The feeling when the halls became fully illuminated for a few seconds was something spectacular. Catching the feeling with the limited DR of a camera was difficult, but it somewhat gives a sense what it was like. The fairly narrow spike of yellow can be supressed and the natural colors can be fairly well restored if needed.

Thanks Rikard for your support in operating "the dragon"