Caving and photography, 2 things that don't seem to go hand in hand.
" It's very convenient to live at a cave, especially when you are a cave photographer. You can just come out of your house and go caving whenever you like," said Nathan Williams a local cave photographer.
And, after years of caving locally and around the Southeast, Nathan realized he had a problem.
" I had been visiting all these cool caves, exploring all this stuff, and the problem was when you try to explain to someone what you had saw, you could describe till you were blue in the face, they still didn't really grasp it."
Anybody that's ever been inside a cave knows it dark in there, that would be a problem when you are trying to take pictures. Well, Nathan has come up with some of his own home remedies.
" I went ahead and developed a lighting system, that uses high intensity LED's."
And, the results are spectacular.
" I have a light that will light up a 5 acre room. Before, we did this it would have taken a 10 person crew with flash bulbs and conventional photo gear to go in and light up the same kind of room."
" When you are in a cave there is no light whatsoever, except the light you carry in. So you are taking a dark void and lighting it up in your own way. Each person lights it up in a way that is very unique and different."
Nathan's work can be seen in multiple publications, and after 10 year of cave photography he still feels like he's just getting started.
" A lot of trial and error, but very fun along the way. It's been an amazing road and I don't see any end in sight."
