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(January – December 2024)

Jean Guy Lathuilière

Kypseli Monastery Agios Dimitrios

Erik Krause

Inside the Jonas Caves

Near Saint-Pierre-Colamine, Auvergne, France

June 20, 2024 - 14:05 local time

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The "grottes de Jonas" are no natural caves, but a troglodyte habitat, built into soft volcanic tuff.

All caves were dug by man, the first of whom were the Celts in 400 BC (Celtic altar and Gallo-Roman statue). Construction continued into the Middle Ages, around the 13th century. The cliff is 500 m long and 100 m high, and the eastern part (which you see here) was inhabited by the lord, while the northern part was occupied by villagers and animals. Comprising some 70 rooms built into the tuff over five floors, the village could house 600 people, including monks, soldiers and peasants.

This is of course not the original furnished room, but a mock-up of what it might have looked like.

Wikipedia article (in french)

I already shot a panorama for the June Wrinkle, and another one, which is on 360cities.

Equipment

Sony a7R4, Samyang 12mm fisheye, handheld HDR (3 brackets@3EV), PTGui pro

Best of?

Tripods were prohibited in this place, so I had to shoot handheld, which is always a challenge in small rooms, especially with such a high dynamic range. It turned out pretty good, without any further editing need.

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