strip mine by blueberry1222

strip mine

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.
Quite an amazing shot
June 17th, 2016  
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!
June 17th, 2016  
The title is so telling.
June 17th, 2016  
Amazing layers, but I hate seeing what they are doing to mother earth.
June 17th, 2016  
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
June 17th, 2016  
so big!!!! nice images. but big impact on the landscape of Arizona
June 17th, 2016  
portrait of our mother
June 17th, 2016  
Bep
Amazing shot. Fav.
June 17th, 2016  
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
June 17th, 2016  
@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.
June 17th, 2016  
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...
June 17th, 2016  
Love it! Reminds me of the ones in WA.
June 17th, 2016  
@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.
June 17th, 2016  
Such a fascinating image! It's at once Beautiful and sad. I do like the colors shown here.
June 18th, 2016  
A great shot to show the size om the mine.
June 18th, 2016  
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. .
June 19th, 2016  
@yaorenliu I just googled his images....they are quite powerful.
June 19th, 2016  
Ripping the earth open, fascinating image.
June 19th, 2016  
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?
June 23rd, 2016  
@kerosene haha....deep down I knew that it wasn't going to happen....but I did manage some portraits last night :)
June 23rd, 2016  
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