caves and the deepest oceans are the darkest places on the planet I’ve been caving for about 25 years now I was part of a team exploring the caves here in gbon for scientific research the entrance of of the cave is a little bit challenging it’s only about 2 and 1/2 ft High dragging all your bags of equipment there’s no light down there at all we just use headlamps on our helmets to navigate the cave so it looks extremely different to this I’m throwing lots of light to try and make a nice looking photographed for this picture we’re just using three electric strobes what struck me a lot about the cing Gabon was how reflective the limestone is so we didn’t need to use too much light in order to to get the exposure in the entrance of caves there’s lots of bats and that was quite common in in all the caves in fact in Gabon without zooming in I wouldn’t have seen that bat and I think it’s really really made the picture the fact that the bat swoops by it’s always best to never delete anything underground if I just looked at the back of the camera and seen a fault somewhere and deleted it without consideration and said let’s do it again it would have gone