Gold Mine

[gcowan]

From a lunch time stop on a trip last year. After Edward Burtynsky.

[Donald]

What a scar on the landscape.

Good one, Graham. There's almost an abstract quality in it given the colours of the rock and the roadways and shelves cutting across it.

[gcowan]

Thanks Donald.
It is not quite the scar, that abstracting it from the landscape makes it. Point of view is not quite everything, but I would have liked the viewing platform to have been a little to the right with some slots in the cyclone wire fence to allow a little more room on the right.
I have been influenced by Edward Burtynsky's work on the troubled relationship we have with mining. I don't know if you know his work on Minescapes from Western Australia?

[Jim A]

I would take out the sky completely Graham as it adds nothing to the composition. Interesting image!

[gcowan]

I would take out the sky completely Graham as it adds nothing to the composition. Interesting image!

Thanks Jim. If I had wanted a comfortable picture I agree; but I wanted the infinite or at least the very distant to give a sense of place and displacement. Does that make sense?

[Manfred M]

+1 to Jim's comment. It would be a stronger image without the sky. It is nothing more than a distracting element that does not add to the image. I understand your comment, but I don't feel the sky is doing what you want it to.

Yes, the image definitely has that Burtynsky "manufactured landscape" look to it.

[Wavelength]

I liked it as such... i prefer to include sky for a feeling, "from here to eternity..."