Behind the Story
Mar 09, 2022
1 minute
angling 140 feet from the mouth of Devil’s Sinkhole in Rocksprings, Austin-based photographer Erich Schlegel felt the strap on his brand new camera break loose. “It happened in a millisecond,”, Schlegel shoots for a variety of clients, from the Austin Opera to , where he covers giant slalom skiing. Though he normally works alone, he credits the professional cavers (pictured above) who helped him into the sinkhole with obtaining the best possible shots. “It’s the best feeling in the world coming out of that cave in one piece,” he says.
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