Animal Flower Cave Photo

Photographer’s Note

At the northern end of Barbados there exists a series of caverns which can be reached from the top of the cliffs, called the Animal Flower Cave. The speciality of these caves are the sea anemones (had to look up spelling of that one!) which live in the rock pools. As the travel brochures point out, some of the pools are deep enough to swim in (hmmm...so much for eco-tourism then, would have prefered to save the anemones).

Well, here are a couple of brave and hardy souls that decided to take a dip in the waters. I have to say, probably one of the more scenic natural swimming pools I have seen yet.

Taken with the old trust(less) powershot G2 and it's amazing ability to miss the shot - though seem to have caught something here.

Liora, Cool-ice, burdallet, chantal, longpt, aznegrao, andreineamtu has marked this note useful

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Liora (1857) 2004-08-04 9:30

You did just fine! Well balanced light, beautiful colors and magnificent composition. It looks like those two are having fun... Well captured!

Tibetix (0) 2004-08-04 9:47

Great composition!.. Bravo David :-)

Cool-ice (5289) 2004-08-04 9:54

Just mysterious as I like !
The composition and the exposure are perfectly managed.
Excellent David !

TheG1 (1445) 2004-08-04 10:08

Your old G2 did the job my friend!
You manage to get the right exposure and catch the moment. Loved the dark blue color of the water in the bottom part.

burdallet (0) 2004-08-04 11:22

A great picture .. double frame , blue-color , nature , suggested characters ; sea . etc ..

Burnham (2449) 2004-08-04 12:12

Did you really not go swimming yourself? I've allready got my bike keys and a towel ready to go to my beach here in DK ;o) this is such a tempting picture (i'm trying to block out the anemone thing, good you mentioned it though). Very well composed and I think your handling of the light makes it quite different, the whole in the cave looks like a blue and white map of some place...

Proxilva (2157) 2004-08-04 12:25

the opening looks like a giant fish... very nice black, white and blue photo... very nice, i see your point with the sea-anemones, but this looks very tempting for a fresh dive.... well done...

sn00zie (2382) 2004-08-04 13:01

beautiful colors and the light is handled well. magnificent composition..

sohrab (7417) 2004-08-04 13:13

this is quite a smart photograph
in the beginning the the opening of the cave looked like the outline of a map of 2 islands. the blue of the sea makes it even more interesting.
good work david
take care

chantal (936) 2004-08-04 15:16

J'aime beaucoup cette vue et elle est superbement réussie. Ca me rappelle une fantastique plongée à Gozo (Malte), où depuis la mer, on était arrivé dans une caverne comme celle-ci.

longpt (947) 2004-09-05 21:21