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[AR]

Easy Pickings in Derbyshire by Jon Pemberton, on Flickr

Fine bit of pickwork there - HDM stands for Hartle Dale Mine, I take it?

 

[JonP]

Fine bit of pickwork there - HDM stands for Hartle Dale Mine, I take it?

Yes, the looseness that is Hartle Dale Bottom Mine. Beware the top ginging is a bit suspect.

Hartle Dale Bottom Mine - Survey

 

[pwhole]

A few random shots from the archive.

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[The Old Ruminator]

The joys of cave digging.

 

[jonnybellman]

A random one taken of white lady cave in Wales. Pre-dive, but post multi-trip journey carting in dive equipment.

Lovely phreatic tube!

 

[Maisie Syntax]

 

[Maisie Syntax]

Rift LKE exchange....... Taken with 2nd hand phone - no flash - Fenix headtorch

 

[Ane]

 

[Ian P]

A quick family trip down Jingling Pot. Snapped a few pics on the phone (iPhone 12 pro max if interested) quite pleased with some of them.

 

[Al S]

Lovely trip down Heron last night, though I'm sure the final crawl has become longer and the water at the exit deeper.

 

[Steve Clark]

Heron was an option for a novice trip last night, but we weren't too enthusiastic about the crawl in the water so we went to sunset instead.

 

[Al S]

Really like the colours in that last one @Steve Clark Had my mind set on black and white but now I'm not so sure...

 

[Steve Clark]

The colour one looks great.

I did push the sunset one a bit in lightroom. Main one being moving the white balance from 'as shot' (4300K) to 'flash' (5500K), turns the brown to orange. (crop 10mm ISO200 F6.3 1/125 one flash at the bottom of the shaft at 1/1 and one in my hand at 1/4).

It was a bit of an experiment with the portrait orientation. I took a similar shot landscape in the same place a couple of years ago with a different model. I think I prefer the composition landscape and a better view of the face, although the big area of out-of-focus foreground distracts me now! I can't look at cave photography anymore without trying the analyse how it was shot. I'm not sure if it's ruining my enjoyment of it or not!

The shaft looks a lot shorter in landscape for some reason though.

Sunset is a great place to experiment, there's a lovely dry ledge to open peli cases and the pitch itself is safe, no loose stuff and easy to work above.

 

[jonnybellman]

A few shots from this weekend in OFD2. Just phone shots, so quality isn't super great.

 

[Maisie Syntax]

On reaching this point, you decide that you have two options: a) Deploy your 'lucky' crowbar, or b).........

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Gosh I have not posted a photo here for ages. Yes I know old folks having lunch again. Main shaft at the Hole In The Wall Dig. Oh dear am I getting formulaic ?

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Mr O'Doc on the 20m platform which leads to the dry workings and other digs.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Ooo. Not to forget the collage. Am I the only one doing them ?

 

[Pegasus]

Ooo. Not to forget the collage. Am I the only one doing them ?

Inspired by your collages I made one of my riding adventures with my horse, I love it - so thank you, you never know what you're influencing

 

[The Old Ruminator]

The way I do it is by assembling the images on Flickr then take a screenshot. Obviously the res. drops but no doubt there are collage programs that can do it better. I was using a freeware one until the free ran out. Got up to 500 seperate images into one collage.