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Photo is am HDR merge of seven slides showing the exit to Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park. Note the curtain of water falling in the distance and the piles of bat guano in the mid ground. The colors in the foreground are due to reciprocity failure of the ISO 100 Fujichrome slide film I was using. Shots were hand-held, hence the softness. 1989.
February 17, 2013

Daily Photo – Deer Cave

The shot below is perhaps the classic Deer Cave shot. Mine is actually a seven-shot HDR - seven slides scanned and merged in Photomatix...

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aving progressed further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I took this shot looking back to the entrance. Gunung Mulu National Park, 1989.
February 16, 2013

Daily Photo – Inside Deer Cave

As we went further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I turned back and go this shot back to the entrance.

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Entrance to Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989. you can get an idea of the scale by looking at the two people in the frame.
February 15, 2013

Daily Photo – Deer Cave, Mulu

Deer Cave boasts some impressive measurements - passage length of over 4 kilometers with a one kilometer stretch with a width of 174 m...

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As dusk arrives, the bats of Mulu emerge from the caves and head out to feast on the insects of the surrounding jungle. 1989.
February 13, 2013

Daily Photo – Bats of Mulu at Dusk

As the sun disappeared below the horizon we turned our eyes back to the hills, watching and waiting. And then we started to see...

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A longboat heading downriver in the Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989.
February 11, 2013

Daily Photo – Heading Downriver

The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can...

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A longboat motors up a river in the Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989.
February 10, 2013

Daily Photo – New Arrivals

From high on a hillside we had a great view down onto the river and the new arrivals coming upstream. This photo was taken...

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