Video: The greatness of the underworld in the pictures of the fearless photographer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The desire to explore our planet has long been inherent in man. Travel around the world, space flights and underground expeditions - where fearless expeditions have not visited. British photographer Robbie Shone - an avid speleologist. His pictures, taken while exploring the mysterious caves, enable viewers to enjoy the greatness of nature.
Anyone who dares to go down into it can see the beauty of the cave with their own eyes. But to capture the stone vaults in the pitch darkness is not an easy task. Robbie Shawn copes with it masterfully: he manages to illuminate the halls of the cave in such a way that in the photographs you can see all the splendor of the underworld.
To get to the hidden depths, Robbie Shawn and his team have to overcome many difficulties: not to get lost in the flow of seething underground rivers, to wade through narrow passages. The intrepid photographer documents picturesque grottoes, dizzying cliffs, formidable stalactites and stalagmites.
Robbie Shawn often takes photographs of the expedition members to show how tiny a human figure looks against the backdrop of the enormous power of nature. Looking at some of the shots, viewers feel like they are breathtaking at the dizzying heights.
The photographer says that in his life he managed to visit the deepest, largest and most extensive cave systems. He had to hang at dizzying heights of hundreds of feet to capture the full depth of natural cave formations. His own record - 94 hours spent underground, it took him so long to take a record "deep" picture.
By the way, no less interesting photographs of the caves belong to another explorer Steven Alvarez, about whose work we also told the readers of the site Culturology. RF.
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