These are the 'fairy grotto's' in Saalfeld, Germany.
I saw a sign at the street while passing through this area, had time and went there. Then I was half an hour really disappointed (no fairies to be seen) until we reached this point. There was a fairy tale told and a little light show illuminating the cave... and I was overwhelmed... it was so beautiful!
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Too dark on my monitor, but this is a great picture. Great job with the title too. Hope you had a torch (no, I'm not British, but it seems a better word for this picture than flashlight).
This looks magical! It's hard to get the full effect at this size, that's why it's important (in my opinion) to try to use the fully allowed 720 pixels. I wonder if this would lose the mystery if it were a little brighter? Lovely shot at any rate.
Back to comment: this image looked a lot darker on my laptop and it was hard to see any detail. Now that I see it on my home computer it has a lot more appeal. However, there is a bit more dark area on the left side than what is necessary to balance the image and if you would have posted this at 720 pixels as allowed, the detail on the right would have been much more dramatic.
This looks like a truly fantastic place to shoot! I wish you'd uploaded it at the full allowable size, so we could maybe see a bit more of the detail in the darkness.
At first I wanted just a little more light to see more but its like the longer you look at it the more it comes alive. Its like an illusion photograph. Great!
What an incredible location! I wish it wasn't so dark, because it is so dark it has gone from mysterious to just hard to see. It is very intriguing though.
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