他花了一年的時間,將紐西蘭洞穴轉變成動人星夜 / Glow Worms Turn New Zealand Cave Into Starry Night And he Spent Past Year Photographing It

Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above!
The Waitomo area is famous for it’s limestone caves and within these caves are one of the most magical insects in the world, the glowworm. Glow worms emit a phosphorescent glow that light up the cave and create a surreal environment.
Over the past year Shaun Jeffers has been back and forth to Waitomo’s Ruakuri Cave to master the art of photographing these magnificent little creatures – it’s been quite the experience! When the headlamps are out and all you can see are the glowworms, you can’t help but feel like you’ve stepped into James Cameron’s Avatar Pandora, it’s just unreal! Photographing glow worms is very similar to shooting the night sky, however the exposure time can be much longer. These images in particular range between 30 seconds and 6 minutes exposures. To achieve the shots, it required him to submerge himself and his tripod in cold water for up to 6-8 hours a day – it was totally worth it!
紐西蘭 Waitomo 地區的石灰岩洞穴中,住著世界上最神奇的昆蟲 - 螢火蟲(Glow worms),跟台灣常見的螢火蟲是不同種類。這些螢火蟲在黑夜中,會讓洞穴亮起來,讓你禁覺得你已經步入了阿凡達電影的潘多拉!攝影師Shaun Jeffers花了一年的時間,每天泡在冷水中長達6-8個小時,拍攝出這些動人的照片,現在就讓我們來一趟夢幻之旅吧!