last week Kasia, invited by Gosia Allison-Kosior, visited Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, USA. thus Kasia became the second (after Gosia) person from Poland who could admire the famous Chandelier Ballroom in Lech. pictures here

in September, in Zakopane (Tatra mountain), the exhibition of 35 our photographs from the caves in Poland and in the world will be organized. first from 02.09 to 12.09 in Miejska Galeria Sztuki ul. Krupówki 41, and then in Ośrodek Edukacyjny Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego ul. Chałubińskiego 42 (13.09 to 01.10.2010). the exhibition goes together with the Mountain Fim Festival which takes place in Zakopane in the same month. more about it here. you will be very welcome!

a new 'weekly engagement calendar' with 54 caving pictures is already available. more information here.

we invite you to look at the photographs from our new expedition to the Mexican cave J2.

our picture from the mexican cave J2 is on the cover of the british caving magazine 'Descent' (n. 212, february/march 2010).

Petzl Sport catalog 2010 was published last week. in the 'Caving' section you will find 8 photographs by Kasia from the expedition to Sierra Negra in Mexico.

National Geographic Poland published recently a book 'Poland through a lens - new edition 2009'. there's 4 our photographs from the caves in Tatra mountain: Pod Wanta Cave, Zimna and Litworowa Caves as well as Mietusia Cave.

the autumn issue of Gaga magazine (7/2009) published an article by Kasia about travelling with Zuzia and her adventures with food around the world

Yoopi! We won 2nd prize at XXXII Concurso de Fotografía Espeleológica organized by Grupo Espeleológico Ribereño. 1st prize went to Peter Gedei, 3rd to Andreas Schober. good job guys!

We've just uploaded our picture for the Petzl contest. If you like it, please vote for it!

our pictures from Piedras Verdes Cave in Picos de Europa (Spain) have been awarded at Hidden Earth 2009 Photographic Competition in Great Britain. we've got Best Shot and Distinction award in Digital Files category.

a few pictures of Talarida brasisliensis going out of Bracken Cave in Texas

kasia made a gallery of the pictures from the spanish expedition to Picos de Europa.

Kasia has just come back from the 15th International Congress of Speleology which took place last week in Kerrville, Texas. she brought home a Honorable Mention for the picture she took in Picos de Europa in Spain last year. all together 9 of our pictures have been accepted and presented at the ICS' Print Salon exhibition.

Kasia has also got a SpeleOlympics' 3rd prize for 30 meters Sit-Stand Rope Climbing. according to Nss Vertical Section, Kasia set a women's new world record in this discipline for her age category.

picture taken by Kasia in the entrance to the mexican cave Akemabis made the cover of the magazine 'Polish Caving 2005-2009'. the magazine has been published in english by our caving federation for the 15th International Congress of Speleology in Kerville, Texas

we won! XV Speleo Championships took place yesterday in wojcieszow, in the south of poland. we've come back home with 2 golden biners for the first places: one for kasia (women's competition) and one for marcin (men's competition).

silver biners went to our friends from the club: to paulina olinkiewicz and to marcin derlatka. magda aksman and marcin chorzewski (also from speleoklub warszawski) had good results as well (respectively 4th and 7th). you can take a look at the pictures from competitions on the website of speleoclub "bobry"

please take a look at new gallery from our last expedition to mexico.

speleoklub warszawski would like to welcome you to participate in 6th international cave photography contest in commemoration of Waldemar Burkacki. please send your entries between may 1 and september 30. announcement of the winners will take place at october 5th. find more information at official contest site: http://konkurs.speleo.waw.pl

we made the picture for the cover of "bieganie" magazine

we've got a picture of Omar from Tunisia. Omar lives in Ksar Ghilane, oasis where the desert begins. we knew Omar 2 years ago and from time to time we receive postcards from him.

polish edition of 'national geographic traveler' published article by kasia about our trip to hawaiian caves. you can find it at ng website, more pictures here

on the cover of the new Jaskinie (n. 52) you can see our picture from the expedition to Sierra Negra in Mexico in april 2008. text about the expedition and more photos inside. you'll find there also our translation of the french text about Dyneema in caving.

among the people who helped during the campaign in the European Parliament was also Matthias Reuss. Matthias is the editor of the recently published photobook about the caves 'Inside Mother Earth'. the author of the pictures is german photographer Max Wisshak. beautiful book contains 144 images of the underground world and the texts in english, german and french. you can read more about it at Edition Reuss's homepage.

yesterday Kasia came back from the European Parliament in Brussels. she was there to take pictures of the campaign 'Save the hole world', organized by the European Cave Protection Commission of European Speleological Federation (FSE). the goal of the campaign was to spread among the eurodeputees the information about the Written Declaration on Cave Protection WD 66 which they could sign untill 4th of December. the text of the Declaration, photos from the campaign and more information could be found at http://www.cavedeclaration.eu.

we've added a gallery from the spanish expedition to Picos de Europa in which we participated last august. more photos at the website of the leader: Zapespeleo

our picture 'It looks like I will take a shower' won the first prize in XXXI Concurso Internacional de Fotografía Espeleológica. the contest was organized by Grupo Espeleológico Ribereno from Aranda de Duero in Hiszpanii.

yesterday the results of the 4th Photo Contest of National Geographic Poland were announced. a picture of Kasia, taken during Cerro Rabon 2008 expedition, has been given the first distinction award in 'People' category: 'Curandera'

good news from italy: 3 our photographs have been awarded in 'Speleologia e ambiente carsico' contest organized in Piemonte. we've been given 2 prize in 'water ways' category, 1 prize in 'caver's life' category oraz 3 prize in 'caver's life' category. you can read more about the contest here

picture taken by Marcin in Kossuth Cave (Hungary, Aggtelek area) was awarded by one of the two prizes (in 'movement' category) of EuroSpeleo Photos contest. the competition was part of the 4th European Speleological Congress 'Vercors 2008'

british magazine 'Outdoor Photography' (issue august 2008) published 2 of our cave pictures and an interview with us

our picture taken at -1160m in the cave Piedras Verdes (Picos de Europa, Spain) makes the cover of 'Jaskinie' 50

we invite you to look at the new pictures from the caves baradla, beke and rakoczy

we've published : new pictures - also from Mexico, but this time from an expedition to Sierra Negra (in Puebla) in april 2008. our main objectif was to continue the exploration of the cave Akemabis. more information and photos at Zapespeleo

we've published 2 galleries of the pictures from our trip to mexico in january/february 2008: exploration of the cave 'Tres Amigos' and diving in the cenotes in Yucatan

we've just learnt, after 2 years, that our picture 'Cueva de Hielo' won the second prize in Certamen de Fotografía Espeleológica organized in the spanish province of Valencia in spring 2006 roku. the photo contest was one of the activities of I Congreso Valenciano de Espeleología

publishing house of Tatra National Park starts a collection of posters that will show the beauty of Tatra mountains. the first 4 of them will be published at the beginning of 2008. 'caving' poster it's our picture from Korytarz Galeriowy in Zimna Cave. posters will be available in TPN Information Center in Zakopane, Chałubińskiego 42

we made a page sklep.speleo.pl where you can see the jewellery and the gear that we sell. now it's in polish, but english version will come soon

we published a gallery with the pictures from our trip to Aggtelek Karst last may and november

we've added to the site the pictures from our expedition with Spaniards to Picos the Europa in august 2007

recent issue (10/2007) of the magazine Digital Photographer (ukrainian edition) published a big story about cave photography 'Children of the underground'. there is an interview with us and 10 of our cave photographs

annual meeting of polish cavers Speleokonfrontacje 2007 finished today. our presentation 'Hawaii - on the island of lava tubes' has been given the second prize in the competition

our picture from the cave Samolepo in Montenegro appeared in a german wall calendar published by the club ARGE Grabenstetten e.V.

we won 2 awards at the uk annual caving conference - hidden earth 2007 in september:

• best projected image - 'lunch time deep in the cave'
• merit award - 'motivated caver'

more results here

'Speleo 2008, weekly engagement calendar' has just been printed. you can see it here. 2008 edition looks the same as the previous one, but has of course new pictures. we also added a caving vocabulary: 124 speleo terms in english, translated into french and spanish.

in polish magazine 'Focus, Special Edition 4/2007' you can see our picture of the big room Wesola Warszawka in Sniezna Cave in Tatras

British Cave Research Association published our picture of the stalagmite on the cover of the 8th issue of BCRA bulletin

annual meeting of the italian cave photographers just finished the 26 of april. results of the photo contest were also announced. this time we won the audience award for picture from hawai`i.
more at speleofotocontest.com.

in the new issue of 'Kulturystyka i Fitness' (april 2007) the continuation of the story by Maciej Piotrowski with our underground pictures

we've received a copy of the magazine 'Kulturystyka i Fitness' 5/2006 where 4 of our pictures were published with the text 'Boys from the caves' by Maciej Piotrowski

article of Anna Grzejewska about cave diving illustrated with our pictures was published in polish magazine Przyroda Polska (Polish Nature) in january 2007

4 double-pages with our pictures from polish caves were published in 4 issue (january - february 2007) of the french magazine 'Bonjour Polska'

new issue 45 (4/2006) of the polish caving magazine 'Jaskinie' has been published. it contains our article z 'Introduction to taking pictures in the caves' that talks about technical problems in cave photography

we made a presentation of the pictures from the hawaiian lava tubes

we spent 2 weeks of new year time in the lava tubes of hawai'i, big island. we visited the Kipuka Kanochina system (23 miles of the galleries) and Kazumura cave (length 65,5 km, depth 1101,5 m). pictures soon :)

for 2007 we prepared two calendars with our cave pictures. first was for Stalbudom company (40x40cm, 13 pages). second one is a desktop calendar for our friends

article of Anna Grzejewska illustrated with our pictures was published in polish magazine Przyroda Polska (Polish Nature) in december 2006

we received no 29 (june 2006) of Association for Mexican Cave Studies Activities Newsletter with our article and pictures

results of V Concurso de Fotografía de Montana was announced the 18th of december. this photo contest was organized by mountain club Montaneiros Celtas from Galicia, Spain. we get the honorable mention for picture 'suenos mojados'

56 issue (november 2006) of the french caving Speleo Magazine was published with our picture on the cover

at the begining of november the book "Le Continent Invisible" was printed by french publishing house 'Glenat'. the famous french caver, Georges Marbach is author of the text. also well known Luc-Henri Fage is the picture editor. you can find five of our pictures in this book, including three full pages. more at internet site of Glenat

our picture from l`Aven d`Orgnac was published in the special edition of "Góry" (Mountains) magazine.

our site was just updated. we added search engine - now you can search for pics, albums and news. we added also site map.

in september british cavers meet at uk annual caving conference - hidden earth. the event includes many competitions - our pictures participated in the photo salon.
2 days ago we learnt that we won a couple of new prizes ;)

• best projected image - 'going down'
• merit award for projected image - 'darkness and light'
• distinction award for color print - 'just one drop'

more results at hidden earth 2006

last friday we received a very nice phone call:

• hi, i'm lumi from spain. do you remember me? i called you 2 years ago. guess why i'm calling you today?
• you have a good news for us, as last time, i suppose
• yes. your picture was awarded with the first prize in our photo contest!
• yupii!!! which one?
• 'alicia en el país del agua' ('alice in waterland')

XXIX certamen internacional de fotografia espeleologica was organized by grupo espeleológico ribereno from spain

from 7 to 11 of august in bellingham (washington, usa) took place the annual convention of the national speleological society. photo print salon was part of it. we sent there a couple of our photographs. one of them - swim gym was given a honorable mention (green ribbon) in digital category. the awarded pictures can be seen at nss

in august we went to montenegro with our six months old susana. we were exploring durmitor massif. unfortunately, without any exiting caves...
take a look at the pictures from montenegro

we've just finished the relaunch of the site. we hope it will be updated more often

:)