2002 | Lava Caves National Monument
Don’t let the bright background geology fool you — this whole region is black lava. A flashlight may show you where the wall is, but very little is reflected back for portraiture.
The next summer I came back here with my son, and a digital camera was again a good thing to have in the extremely low light in the long, branching caves, but to get our last pictures, we had to rob a flashlight of its batteries to power the camera to record the ice we found in the lower reaches.