Les Jones

Photos > Friday Photo Blogging: The Lost Sea ca. 1976

I remember going to The Lost Sea as a kid, but I totally don't remember this picture. It turned up in a photo album my mom put together for my birthday last year.

That's me on the front row with the striped shirt, black socks, and Beatles haircut. I tried to use Photoshop to get more details, but no go. The flash was pretty strong, and it reflected off of the white t-shirt of the kid next to me and washed out my face. Click for a larger version.

LATER: SouthKnoxBubba tried his hand and sent this version of the photo, which, as he points out, trades some detail for noise. (Unlike TV shows like X-Files and CSI, in real world photography you wind up trading one thing for another.) He used Photoshop CS and used Image-->Adjust-->Shadow/Highlight, along with Unsharp Mask to get these results.

Note for them what ain't from around here: The Lost Sea is an underground cavern and lake near Sweetwater, Tennessee. East Tennessee has a karst topography, so there are underground caverns and interesting rock formations all over the place. See, for instance, Rock City.