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Photographing Wet Places in a Dry Land, Mammoth Cave National Park

Posted on September 3, 2018, 10:54 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Mammoth Cave National Park is generally a dry place. I explore a few out-of-the-way watery places within the park, while discussing some of the compositional strategies I used in those relatively plain scenes. Sloan’s Crossing Pond Water has made the longest cave in the world. The karst landscape of Mammoth Cave National Park is characterized […]
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Synchronous Fireflies Beyond the Smokies

Posted on July 2, 2018, 8:19 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park was once thought to be the only place in North America where the synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) can be seen. Fittingly for the most visited national park in America, the event has become very popular, as described in the previous article. During my East Coast trip this spring, I observed […]
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Photo Spot 33: Mammoth Cave National Park – Frozen Niagara

Posted on July 8, 2010, 3:16 pm, by QT Luong, under National Parks Photo Spots.
Over 300 miles of caves have been mapped in Mammoth Cave National Park, making it the largest known cave system in the world. Depending on the season, the National Park Service offers up to a dozen different tours into the caves. Although some of the tours can last up to 6 hours, most of the […]
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