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[RoyGBiv]

Mystic Caverns to be precise. A whole series of caves running from Arkansas up through Missouri was opened up eons ago under a fault line, and in one part of the cave you can actually look up and see the fault and even how it has moved more recently if you look closely enough.

It's actually damp rock formations in the cave. I took about 20 shots of the same formation from different angles, using different exposures, sensor sensitivity, different manners of lighting (available, standard flash, delayed strobe). I got that one and cropped it to take out people and dark areas. It ends up looking like slime flowing (at least to me), and the reflection of light makes it look wetter than it is and creates an illusion of flowing slime.

Like a lot of people, I struggled with this one but wanted to enter something, and this certainly has texture to it. Seeing the other entries, I'll feel lucky if I get a single vote, if for no other reason than the grossness factor. I still thought it was cool. :-)

Almost called it Lord of the Slime 'cause the tops of some of the formations above the flow sorta look like lordly figures watching over everything.

The other one I consider was of what's called "cave bacon." It's a formation that looks a bit like bacon when light shines through it. The best pics I had, though, were a bit too dark, and, well, the way the formations appeared could have been taken for a representation of some part of female anatomy, so I decided against it.