The riviera Maya in Mexico host the world’s largest underground river systems filled with clear water, never-ending tunnels and amazing halls with decoration that can compete with the best gothic cathedrals of the world.
The challenge of capturing this beautiful flooded hall in cenote “Monkey Dust” is not only the huge dimensions in a totally pitch-black environment navigating through a labyrinth of delicate formations but that may be hours away from the closest exit to surface
This photo is a x5 shot horizontal panorama stitching captured at 1/15 sec handheld at the usable limit of the camera ISO and diaphragm wide open to create an 86mpx panorama. Trying to capture the scale, the tridimensionality, the richness of the formations and their incredible textures.
A world that is unknown but lays below our feet
