Lava Beds Caves

[Kyle Jones]

These are more for fun than as a serious landscape. I made my first trip to Lava Beds while in Klamath and enjoyed seeing some of the caves. Valentine was my favorite as it was long, easy to walk in, and had some branching tubes. I liked putting people (generally myself) into the photos for scale. I used my flashlight for lighting.

1) Valentine Cave - in addition to the light on the foreground, I took frames shining light from behind to add some depth

2) Near the entrance of Valentine Cave. Alejandro and I walking out

3) Skull Cave - this was impressively tall and, of course, the scale doesn't really show. I like the light fading as you move from the entrance

 

[AlanLichty]

Very cool light paintings - these images show off the caves quite nicely and your flashlight work really does bring out the depth.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Kyle,

What a cool place. I do think people are needed to add scale in these. As much as I avoid people in my landscape images, this is a case where people are almost a necessity it seems.

Nice work on these. Any risk of getting lost and turned around in these?

 

[Kyle Jones]

Hey Kyle,

What a cool place. I do think people are needed to add scale in these. As much as I avoid people in my landscape images, this is a case where people are almost a necessity it seems.

Nice work on these. Any risk of getting lost and turned around in these?

Not these ones - there's really only one path. Even when it splits (like in the pictures here) the paths rejoin a little bit further down.

 

[Kurt Harrigan]

Did you use a pretty strong light for these? Lava caves just seem to suck up however much light you tend to throw at them....

 

[Kyle Jones]

Did you use a pretty strong light for these? Lava caves just seem to suck up however much light you tend to throw at them....

Just my normal LED head lamp. I did use pretty long exposures (up to 20s)