[LRflex] Re: Concentration

Bill wrote:
I'm glad you couldn't "correct" the light pouring in from the upper left corner. It give an air of mystery and a needed accent of color to an otherwise mostly monochromatic shot. Industrial art at its best, I would say; Fortune magazine stuff, perhaps. 

Hi Bill!
Thanks for the compliment! These are, indeed, "commercial" shots, not "photographic art". But, as Ted and others can attest, making an industrial operation look interesting, if not attractive, is often quite a challenge. I was very pleased with this one.
As for the light, you are right ... it boosts the shot.. but shots taken on "the other side", where that is the only light, are tough, tough, though! I may experiment with B&W, in order to solve the colour hassles.
And I hope they weren't concentrating the ore by floating it on mercury, the way they used to do with gold.
Nope. HVC is one environmentally friendly company, and have won many awards for their "clean" technology and reclamation efforts. Their mine stands out, particularly when you look across the road at the now defunct Getty Copper site. Getty operated in the days before environmental legislation and just left huge piles of tailings as their legacy. Slowly, nature is reclaiming the land, but it will take hundreds, if not thousands of years for that work to be complete.
Here's a shot of Trojan Pond ... a former tailings pond where they now hold fishing derbies! 

http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Trojan.htm

Cheers!

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