Four Days Filming at Fairy Cave Quarry

Ali M

Active member
The Old Ruminator said:
Well yes Laurie. Do I show my relatively poor images and try to tell a story or hoard them at home perhaps chucking a few on Facebook. Not everyone likes what I do here and, of course, they are welcome to their opinion. I have over 4,000 cave related images now so it is getting a bit hard to manage such a mass. Many will go into Photobooks which may survive myself and the social media. Ultimately you have to live with what you believe in and take the expected knocks you know will arrive. Maybe its something about legacy. What you leave behind when you are gone. Hopefully for the good. My mate had hoards of diving related research he would let nobody see. He died diving and left nothing as a legacy. Many years of work for nothing. Lord knows where his stuff is now. Much of his work was actually repeated as folk never knew it had been done.

Like many other cave photographers we have an extremely large database of cave related photos dating back many years, including entrances, underground shots, formations, foreign trips, digging and exploration. These are all sorted, named and dated. The database is easy to search and all of the photos will all be offered to the MCRA or other relevant groups.
 

Laurie

Active member
There's nothing poor about your pictures OR. Your constant supply of great photos are as close as I am ever likely get to penetrating the depths now or in the future.
I have a bebilitating condition which means I'm unlikely to ever go into anything other than a show cave. I gave up cave photography when nothing seemed to turn out the way I wanted it. I spent 10 years as a 'weekend professional' reporting for a major Land Rover magazine, I've spent most of my life taking pictures of mountains and I'm currently on a project in the Bishop's Palace Gardens.
I'm still trying to find out what I'm good at.
 

The Old Ruminator

Well-known member
Withyhill.

We only got part way into Withyhill during filming. ( up to Barabobath's Bath ). Interestingly we saw nothing cryogenic that we could recognise though there are lots of sediments .

P1150028 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150031 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

This sediment bank collapsed in floods a few years ago.

P1150040 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150036 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

Limit of filming on the day at Barabobath's Bath.

P1150057 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150060 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150068 - Copy by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150075 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

P1150087 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

Colin in Stal Shuffle.

P1150093 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

Andy Freem in Stal Shuffle.

P1150109 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

That's it until the next time. I have been invited back to assist so will stick the old TG2 in my pocket. We have a particular conservation job in mind ( hence the post on Milliputt ). Hopefully there will be time to film it and complete work in Withyhill. There are many hours of film " in the can " . Over eight hours for Shatter Cave alone so how things will end up after the edit I do not now. Maybe even two films.

 
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