Under A Rock Photography: 2017

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Blue Spring Cave, Tennessee - Moonscape, the Oasis, and the Cathedral Room

Self portrait in the Oasis, Cascade Hall, Blue Spring Cave - March 2016

Wayne Perkins on the suspension bridge crossing Trey's Traverse in Johnson Avenue, March 2016.

Reilly Blackwell climbing out of Moses Tomb, July 2017.

Stewarts Falls, Utah

Stewarts Falls and an unnamed spring discharge on the left. July 2017

Bridal Veil Falls from the pull off. July 2017

The Lower Pools, July 2017

Brighton Lakes, Utah

Lakes Catherine (near), Martha (middle), and Mary (far) from Sunset Peak. Lakes Dog and Silver are barely visible. July 2017.

Lisa Falls, Utah

Lisa Falls, July 2017

Bells Canyon (background) as seen from Lower Bells Canyon Reservoir. June 2015.

Newberry-Banes Cave System, VA

Wayne Perkins in Triple Wells, Newberry Section

McCoys Mill Cave, WV

Upper Entrances.

Reilly Blackwell, McCorys Mill Shelter Cave entrance.

Leah Hill, Blood Cave, WV

Shelfstone and rimstone pools, 4th Formation Gallery.

Mystic Cave, West Virginia

David Crawford exiting the downstream crawls in Mystic Cave, December 2013.

Karlee Markovich in "Someplace Special" - April 2016

Eric Pelkey in Helens Cave, December 2017

Will Boekel (close), Tony Canike (middle), and Wayne Perkins (far) in the entrance of Goat Cave. December 2017.


Will Boekel in the side alcove of Deep Cave. Behind him is the 40ft diameter column. New Years Day 2017.

Flowingstone Cave, Georgia

Deirdre Conroy (bottom) and Eric Lee Hahn (top) in the pit during heavy flow
conditions in March 2017.

Deirdre Conroy in Natural Well, March 2017.

Nick Jarvis in the large junction room by the culvert entrance, April 2015.

Ben Williams and Ester Suchevits in the Snedegars Saltpeter Trunk, November 2015


Steph Petri (bottom) and Elliot Guerra-Blackmer in Crookshank Pit, October 2015

Friars Hole Cave System

As of 2016 the longest cave in West Virginia at just over 46.5mi.

Pauls Cave, Alabama

River passage with Amy Skowronski (close), Ed Villareal (middle), and Shawn Hogbin (far). August 2016

Bluff River Cave is one of the many caves located in Little Coon Valley. It is a horizontal cave with about a mile of large river passage. The entrance is at the base of a bluff in an infeeder to Little Coon Creek. In the summer a cascade of cold air cave be felt as far as the creek. Immeditealy in the entrance is the Valley of Goo, a large passage filled with very slick mud banks and terminating in a large flowstone haystack formation.

The Valley of Goo with entrance light spilling in the far left.
(l-r) Amy Skowronski, Ed Villareal, and Deirdre Conroy.

From here the cave continues as a large river trunk with a mostly flat floor. Only in one spot does one have to cut up and over through a side passage (where the Register is located). A deep pool of water will get you wet up to your waist. The cave passes a large flowstone formation (Echoes of Endor) and ends in a large breakdown room with a distinct looking column (the Monolith).