So I've been taking photos in France..
 

Enjoy :)
I'm in the middle of arranging a prints service, so if you like something, I an probably get you a print..

Bordeaux-
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-bd-9.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-bd-14.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-bd-15.jpg

Paris Catacombs
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-1.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-7.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-8.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-11.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-12.jpg
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-13.jpg

and this little fella from hongkong
http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-hk-1.jpg

enjoy :D

Wow, those are pretty stunning pics. What's all the white stuff in the tunnel?

truly talented.

nice, what cam?

:smokin

nice pictures thanks for shraing them :thumbsup.

great pic

The white stuff is water :D
It's crystal clear in some sections, and bright cyan to aquamarine.. amazing.

The camera is a canon 1ds

YARGH! Some of the best photography I've ever seen comes from you. Keep it up. Your work should be published. Then again, maybe it has.

Nice pix...good break from looking at nekkid chix all day.

Okay, back to the nekkid chix now.

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very nice pics, indeed

very beautiful photograph. its just like browsing through pages of a magazine. thanks for that.

nice stuff man.. are those bones in that one pic with everyone sitting?

I love this one: http://quantum-x.ice.org/trip/qx-cata-8.jpg
How much for a print?

wow.. fascinating!

Whats the story behind the catacombs?

Simply beautiful stunning snap shots

Your pics are wicked. You have serious talent. Thanks for sharing.

that's what u call a photographers eye view! nice shots dude :)

awsome work as always... you ever in a southern cali? im trying to plan a desert shoot.... anyone interested in coming?

Those are some great snaps. What is the underground scene?

Ya but I bet you would want a reach around.

Thtype of pics on shows up once in a blue moon so thabnks for sharing them up.

Oh, I love France...
Hopefully I could be there too...
The sky is so cool! I love the color!

Great shots..you have a good eye

shhhhhhh... damn cockblocker :)

Nice pics

nice work - looks interesting

I love your pics man :thumbsup


What's up with the pile of bones? :)

What camera did you use man?

great pix

haven't been to france. i think i should make a visit. what settings did you use in the last pic?

Looks like pics of Quake dungeons :D

you just took some pics of the new Batcave.

Thanks for all the comments guys.. :)
All the underground photos are from the Catacombs in Paris..

Essentially, When Paris was being constructed, they mined limestone out in huge mines 25m below the surface of Paris - huge vast chambers. Once construction was complete, people forgot about the void beneath their feet.

As it became more developed, Paris had its memory jogged when entire streets suddenly started falling into the mines. This continued throughout the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th districts, until the reining king of the time decided to form a group (ICG or IGC -I can't remember) to fix the problem. They formed in 1777, and late that year, began work in the quarries, adding walls and tunnels and reinforcements, essentially honey-combing the void, to reinforce it. Work continued as late as 1845, to where it is today, where places still need to be reinforced with more concrete to stop cave ins - yet there are sections where the walls bow like arcs under the weight above.

During the period of construction, Paris had issues with disposing of corpses - and so resorted to dumping the bodies of the dead in certain sections of the catacombs - the ossories - which are the pictures you saw above, as well.

Unlike what people think, the catacombs are incorrectly called so, and a 'technically' known as the 'quarries' - and do not have bones all throughout them.. maybe 1% of the 300+km of tunnels..

lesson over!

All the buildings built above Paris are built from the stone below. That's why they can't build skyscrapers in Paris. The city is standing on bedrock like swiss cheese. After x amount of years in most of europe you are allowed to dig up, throw away, or bury on top of graves. As they expanded the city and dug up cemeteries they would drop the bones down shafts into the quarries.

The bone room in his pics does NOT appear to be on the official tour available to regular tourists. The bones in the legal tourist parts are generally clean, unbroken and geometrically arranged. I'd be willing to bet he got a tour from local cataphiles such as Lezard and Ulrich of Zone Tour or some such similar group.

My main hobby is exploring abandoned places. I've been in those same sections of the Parisian catacombs. I have rolls and rolls of pictures of the catacombs, ww1 and 2 bunkers, abandoned military bases, and abandoned hospitals around europe and the US.

Damnit, you beat me.

amazing pics been to paris many times never seen this :thumbsup

Oh yeah.. I don't really go for public tours :D
I know Lezard, but I didn't go down with him :)

You'll see photos above of a ColdWar Bunker, a German Bunker, and the fountain that a group of monks used to use to make their famous liquer from.

We ate dinner in a German ww1 bunker down there. Verboten this... Verboten that... old chemical toilets all over the place.

I do this kind of thing all over America too. If you're ever over here and want to see an abandoned mental hospital or some abandoned subways around nyc let me know. :thumbsup

you already know how i feel about your photography, buddy :)