My Favourite Photographs

[The Old Ruminator]

Little things to big things. ( Hope I remember the names correctly )

The Collonades , Lancaster Hole




The Trident. OFD.



The King. Stoke Lane Slocker.



The Queen



GB Great Chamber. Early 70's. Cracked column.



Shatter and the smiling girl. xx



Me in Withyhill. 1970's



The super boulder. The Frozen Deep.



Huge upturned stal formation. The Frozen Deep.



The curtains. Fernhill

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Agen Allwedd



OFD



Agen Allwedd. Cliffs of Dover



Agen Allwedd. Sump Four



Darn. Cant remember.



Me somewhere. LNRC ?



St Cuthberts  -  somewhere.



Pitch head Daren Cilau



Me with camera box. Daren Cilau



Slaughter Stream Cave. Wonder if it is taped now.



Happy days on the hill ( Agen Allwedd ). The little boy is a policeman now. Just like his dad.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Tempus Fugit.

As You Like It.



Looking at the older images of us makes me realise two things.

Time stands still for no man.

How lucky am I

I am the eldest of three brothers.

My middle brother died of cancer aged 60. My  younger brother is diabetic. I am only slightly mad. :blink:

So what of some of us today.  Back to portrits my favourite caving theme.

Me by me and why not ?



Pete.



Trevor and Pete. Are we too old for this ?



Trevor



" Pardon "



Pete 1970



Himself.







Himself and me in Twin Titties 1992.



Trevor in Swildons 2.

 

[thomasr]

Your posts are a much needed diversion  from the recent worries on ukcaving [ especially Lauries knee]

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Your posts are a much needed diversion  from the recent worries on ukcaving [ especially Lauries knee]

And Brexit 

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Stoke Lane Slocker.

Trevor at the entrance.



My brother on the traverse. Stoke 2





My brother in Stoke 2



Pete Rose in Ubley Warren 1960's



Pete in Withyhill c 1972.



Wet Ears Squeeze in Swildons.



Short Cut Short Cut OFD.



Pete and Trevor. 2nd Choke Agen Allwedd.



Pete at White Company



John Keat, Fairy - Hilliers dig.



Blasting our way into terminal chamber GP Series, Withyhill with John Keat. c 1973




Pete and Trevor in OFD

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Lost and gone forever.


The value of " historical " cave photographs.
 
Jackdaw Cave, Cannington.





" Twins "

The twin stal has gone. The boy twins have grown up.



Brian Prewer with the Twins. Brian is about 80 now. ( Withyhill )



Curtain lost in a tragic surveying accident.



The machinery at Fairy Cave Quarry c 1970.



Shatter Cave.

Er I have forgotten where they are !







My youth --

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Pipe Dreams. Vurley.

It had everything. Free pipes close by, a hut, a happy landowner, a lovely closed karst basin. It ended up 150m deep. The story continues ---

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Some People That I Used to Know.


And still do ---- :kiss2:

Barry reminds me of Arthur Lowe. In a cave he looks incongruous. Like he should be in a bank perhaps.



He said he was not asleep though I am not so sure.



Nigel. " The Engineer ". Caught here in an available light shot.



Brian Prewer. Over 80 now. At St Cuthberts.



Pete in the Hunters reading the Times. A pint of Butcombe, soup and a roll. It never varies.



Alison whom I admire as a cave digger. Here on the first climb of Ascension in The Frozen Deep. Andrew Atkinson lead climber. Alison competant middle support. The old photographer last and here desperately hanging off the climb for an historic photo. You only get the one chance.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

My lovely lady cave " models " Nat and Laura.



Nikki.



Him by available light. Never downhearted.



Cap'n Chris in Neverland. He knows how to look after old cavers.



Kate both fearless and fearsome.



Chris. Fearless under ground and underwater.

Me." Oh dear I have accidentally thown the ladder down the pitch." :-[

Chris.  "$%^&*$"    !



Yes. Me of course but then I dont think I know myself well at all .

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Takes me to around 300 images now. Away tomorrow then back later in April . Might just take it to 500 who knows ?

 

[Laurie]

Lost and gone forever.


The value of " historical " cave photographs.
 
Jackdaw Cave, Cannington.

Could be the surface of Mars....

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Does caving photography have to be so serious ?



























Gone away ----

 

[Fulk]

That's a good old-fashioned lifelining position, Maj. 

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Back from SW Australia so might do some more. Well Photobox have a massive sale over Easter so I have got all these photos arranged in an A3 photobook ( 361 images ).

100 page Photo Book now ?24.99, was ?101

Could not resist that.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

More interesting than favourites I suppose. Part of Reservoir Hole that had never been photographed before. Climbed recently by Mike Kushy et al who kindly dropped the ladder for the old folk. A bit of new passage was found up there as well. The first for a few years. Anyway there is a write up in the current Descent. I calculated that the choke we were digging with Mike was directly below the hole in the floor up at High Country and only five metres from it. Descent does not refer to the negative feedback this dig produced from other Mendip cavers. A probable connection short circuiting the route through The Frozen Deep was considered ill advised so we have abandoned the project.

The aven climb.

Trouble with Photobucket so may return later.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

The Photobucket images are appearing monster size overlapping the screen so just a couple ot attachments.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

The chamber at the top of the aven with traverse going off above Pulsation chamber.

 

[Roger W]

Ooh, that lodged boulder does look interesting!

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Best not to stand on it Roger.
Struggling with Photobucket at the moment. It is really slow and the images I post are huge completely overlapping the screen. Its always worked OK up to now. I assume its not a forum issue. I dont like the attachment route as I have to re edit the images to get them low enough resolution . Also I was having trouble adding more than one per post. Will wait and see if things improve.


"This site can?t be reached s105.photobucket.com took too long to respond."          Ruddy rubbish for the cost of it.