Niagara Cave #4 ~ The Chapel by odie
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I think this will be the last of my cave images. Believe it or not, this is THE CHAPEL!
We were coming to the end of the tour and I was growing weary of the cramped, damp darkness... brrrr.
Just when I thought I'd had about enough we entered a tunnel that started to head upward. That is the first shot and you can see the white boards in the opening.
The second shot is the actual chapel where, supposedly, about 400 weddings have occurred. Now - I don't personally know anyone who would invite friends and family into the depths of the earth to exchange vows... do you? But, who am I to judge? A real caver would probably find it a hoot!
As I said, I was "checked out" at this point so shot the chapel as I exited. That accounts for the photos tilt and is not due to the dizzying effects of breathing stagnant air for an hour. lol.
Have a wonderful week to come.
Jodie
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Comments (7)
timtripp
it's been a wonderful tour!
skipper62
Wonderful shots, great tour. Thanks for taking us along Have a great week
THROBBE
That's cool! Nice collage!
goodoleboy
A chapel down deep in the dank chambers of the earth? All I can say is unbelievable and incredible. If you didn't have photographic proof I would say that you were hallucinating. Excellent shots under the circumstances, Jodie. Incidentally, an oxygen tank and mask would have been most apropos about then.
busi2ness
Most appropriate for a wedding I'd say, it is after all the womb of Mother Earth. Good use of lighting and reportage.
Meisiekind
I disagree with Piet - caves give me the creeps.... Lovely series though Jodie! Well done! :)
anahata.c
full-resolution this really shows what a cave is about. The upper half is really cave-like, I think because you gave the roof as half the shot, and it drives home just how massive the rock is (frightening I think is the word!), and how these little tunnels are little: The rock is the real fact of these caves, not the passageways. Also, full-resolution, we can see the rich earthen-browns and their sheen (either from minerals or maybe moisture). And the stairs & opening are really tucked in there, and you gave us the floor too, which drives home that it's a cave-way & not a well-groomed sidewalk...The lower half would be a fine photograph whether in a cave or not, because of the pov—your angled shot has very nice music, with the benches in counterpoint to the two white fences (and they themselves are in a nice angled music). It's a nice interplay of lines & shade; and I love that little bannister-tip making reddish harmony with the cave's color, and that hunk of cave in the upper left, reminding us that these caves really small tunnels in a massive ocean of rock. And (again) your framing is fine & your signature, in bas relief on the fence, is a class act. Even a pipe (I think it's a pipe!) behind the signature's fence flows into one of the fence's posts. A really fine artistic diptych, and a fav. (is this a long comment or what??? sorry...didn't mean to take up the site's bandwidth!)