I tried really hard to try to post portraits all month, but that ain't gonna happen. I got a tad bit on the busy side with other things. So this is an open pit mine. Arizona's landscape is littered with these things. Modern amenities means that this will not stop anytime soon. The main element mined here is copper.
We use to have so many around our area in the 60's, but now they've all been reclaimed and the land looks so nice again. Really good detail here - even to the dust that car is creating!
You can spend a lot of time looking at this shot. I like the road snaking through the shot the dust from the truck and the colours of the scarred landscape. Fav
Amazing capture . In western Australia Newman has a open cut mile and as the iron ore they rebuilt grown by putting the top soil that they remove before they took the iron ore out some part it looks likes no one had touch it
@triciaodonnell They do that here as well (let nature recover land scared by mines), but Arizona has so many active mines that it is easy to think that the land will never recover.
This shot shows the size of the workings . don't know how to react to this , anger is such an easy response these days, Orlando on Monday , yesterday the English MP Jo Cox shot while walking the street after a meeting , not sure it made your news . we don't have a lot of metals to mine over here but still seem to be able to spoil the landscape...
@jack4john yes, the Jo Cox,story is very much in the news here. So disturbingly sad. In Arizona, we had a similar event happen to one of our politicians named gabby giffords, but she survived and is brain damaged. I think about 7 others that got shot died, including a 8 year old girl. These stories are way too frequent.
It is rather sad scars on earth, it reminded me the documentary about the photographer - SebastiĆ£o Salgado, who took a lot of shots about opened mines and human greed. .
It is fascinating indeed, beautiful yet sobering at the thought of all this scarring... and I had a smile at your comment about portraits not happening this month. I tried doing the '30 days wild' this month but I just can't commit to one thing for a long period of time! Who knows what will come around that's not part of the theme, and you want to post it?