One Year Old - Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos

[Brian Roebuck]

Hey! It's been a whole year that Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos (CCCP) has been on Flickr!

Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos (CCCP) is about the cavers who have joined this group to share their love of caving, cave photography and caves.

To date (1-03-2008) we now have 3,680 caving photos in our group pool and 307 of the very finest cave photographers known to Flickr!

It has been a great year and we're looking forward to many more!

Happy Anniversary!

Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos (CCCP)
To recap our 1st year on Flickr View our Slideshow
www.flickr.com/groups/cavers/pool/show/

[L Roebuck]

Here's a photo poster commerating the Flickr group: Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos (CCCP) 1st Anniversary!

[Azurerana]

Um...was the reference to the CCCP (the old Soviet Union) intentional, or accidental?
(Probably accidental, it's my gray hair is showing again.)

[L Roebuck]

azurerana said:

Um...was the reference to the CCCP (the old Soviet Union) intentional, or accidental?
(Probably accidental, it's my gray hair is showing again.)

Um....the abbreviation CCCP was intentional because CCCP stands for Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos.

Since you're a caver it was curious that you mentioned the old Soviet Union and not Cumberland Caverns Christmas Party which is also a CCCP abbreviation.

Wha' up with that?

[Azurerana]

pretzlgirl said:

azurerana said:

Um...was the reference to the CCCP (the old Soviet Union) intentional, or accidental?
(Probably accidental, it's my gray hair is showing again.)

Um....the abbreviation CCCP was intentional because CCCP stands for Cavers, Caves & Caving Photos.

Since you're a caver it was curious that you mentioned the old Soviet Union and not Cumberland Caverns Christmas Party which is also a CCCP abbreviation. What's up with that?

I've never paid any attention to Cumberland Caverns. The Soviet Union threatened to bomb me out of existence as a small child, but the closest Cumberland Caverns ever came to doing that was with its light show. ;D

Nothing ulterior or political was meant by the remark, Lynn. I just thought it curious.

[Brian Roebuck]

The caving photos Flickr group Lynn started out of her love of cave photography has grown and matured nicely in a year. It was conceived to allow all cave photographers a friendly place to post their work and to share with each other. The group isn't affiliated with anything and is world wide in scope. Apparently it was a good enough idea to be copied.

If you photograph caves and would like to join head on over and take a look. Join if you like or just browse the amazing photos taken by the members of Cavers, Caves, and Caving Photos Group (CCCP)! ;D

[plainasty]

Well I can say that i just joined flickr and i like the way its set up. I haven't joined the caving photography part because I just got the camera and I'm gonna treat it like a baby for awhile but I cant wait to go underground and get some great piucs to add.

[Brian Roebuck]

Sounds great Mark. You might want to invest in a slave flash or two to help light up cave photos correctly. It makes a world of difference.

[plainasty]

Actualy I was meanin to ask somene about that. Can you give me a link to something? It's only a Kodak easyshare digital camera; would it be compatible?

[plainasty]

the model is m753 I'm not finding one for it but maybe you can Dr. Beaner

[Brian Roebuck]

Mark,

There are all sorts of slave flash devices. The good ones simply attach to the connector (hot shoe) of a regular camera flash unit. They have a detector that senses the infra-red light from the flash firing on your camera and instantly set off the flash they are connected to. You might try eBay or local yard sales etc to find some used camera flashes. A good one you can often find reasonably priced is a vivitar 283 unit. Then you can get a slave or two to use with two external flash units. Firefly makes a nice one (in NSS News he always runs his ad). Peter Jones has a website with details on these at www.pjcaver.com . Other camera shops such as Adorama, Porters, and others online run specials on all sorts of flash slaves. The cheaper ones are fine for small rooms or more compact scenes.

One bit of advice is to filter the built in flash on your camera to avoid the fuzzy dots of reflected light from water droplets in cave air near your camera's lens. The onboard flash illuminates them and they ruin otherwise good cave photos. Use a piece of exposed film (it looks black) from a camera shop or photo lab and cut out a piece just big enough to cover your cameras flash lens. Tape it on with clear tape and make it easy to peel off. It will only let infra red light through it when you use the flash. You can't see infra red light but the slave flash units can. They will flash normally and light up your shot. Set them up on each side of where you are shooting to bring out the details of formations etc. You'll have to experiment with all that but digital cameras give you instant feedback on what you need to do to get things right. Tripods are also very handy to set up your camera and make several tries from exactly the same angle.

Google is your friend so be sure to search the web for more great camera tips.

Good luck!

[paul snook]

happy ani,,,,,,,,,,,,,, what are we?? oh ya aniversary, happy aniversary