Primož Jakopin, photo diary

New cave in Rakov Škocjan
Sun rays

October 31, 2024, 15 pictures

          Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. The names in the cave were in several instances given by the author.

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54452. From about eleven o'clock in the morning (the photo was taken at 11:48) until one o'clock in the afternoon, the sunlight, not directly, but through the branches and leaves of the beech trees in front of the cave, penetrated through the entrance and the cave hall bathed in its light, ...


 

 


 
54453. ... which reached right to the bottom.


 

 


 
54454. The angle of incidence of the sun's rays moved...


 

 


 
54456. ... increasingly towards the vertical, ...


 

 


 
54458. ... until they hit the bottom. But then they went out and the hall was once again dark.


 

 


 
54455. The cave was formed along a vertical fissure approximately in the west-east direction and on the east side the floor rose steeply to a small plateau with this side chamber in the north side.


 

 


 
54457. Water drops (condensation) on the ceiling of a chamber






 
54459. On the other, southern side of the plateau, there were several oval depressions in the ceiling, and this one was quite spherical, about 15 centimeters in diameter.


 

 


 
54460. The depression from the previous photo (on the right in this picture) continued with a tunnel through the wall.


 

 


 
54461. A more abstract image of the play of light and shadow in the corrosion forms






 
54462. One and a half meter long hanging rock, supported in just two places






 
54463. View from the west side of the lower part of the hall towards the ascending fissure in the east


 

 


 
54465. A fingernail- or face-like bordered surface on a flowstone heap above the floor of the hall (the height of the inner part is about 40 cm).






 
54467. Small mushroom on a decaying spruce trunk inside the entrance






 
54469. Afternoon view against the sun, through the autumn forest under the cave






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  Cave under the road in Rakov Škocjan, October 27, 2024     Cave Under the Karlovec Castle, November 7, 2024  
 


 


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