Slash and Burn
A barren wasteland of human destruction. Palms sticking up like accusing fingers and the coral sand scorched and sooty. All this a few steps from the natural beauty. This patch of land close to the beach had been cleared for a building site and left abandoned as the economic armageddon also reaches this tropical paradise.
However, this is just the kind of thing that inspires us.
HDR from 5 exposures.
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Også lå det der – ødelandet, det ødelagte, nedbrente og stygge. Midt i all skjønnheten av hvit korallsand og turkis hav stakk svarte nedbrente palmestubber opp, som protest, som en svart midtfinger mot himmelen.
En hittil uberørt del av strendene på Belize er på gammel måten ryddet og klarert for nybygg – av hoteller og turist tilbud, men på grunn av den vaklende økonomiske situasjonen utsatt på ubestemt tid. Nå står bare “fingeren” igjen og vitner om en optimisme som var og som forsvant – også i dette tropiske paradiset.
HDR fra 5 eksponeringer.
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Awesome! A sad sample of the human talent for destroying.
we are after all the great destroyers of them all. it’s sad.. amazing hdr.. congrats
This is a great, great HDR-works, concrats!!!
what a post-apocalyptic scenary
it was good you strayed away from the touristy scene and captured this one.. nice shot!
Awesome! Economic pressure is larger than nature preservation! You used time travel machine to catch this scene, like prehistoric land with dead dinosaur skeletons… Bravo.
Incredibly barren. Powerful and sad image.
unfair!!! today i was looking at an aerial shot of the amazon and was shocked to find a major chunk of the beautiful forest literally shaved off the earth’s surface!! these kind of images are the only testimony we have for what goes on!
I’m so happy that you were able to find death and destruction on your vacation. I was worried that the beauty surrounding you might have ruined your whole trip.
This is a great shot. It certainly looks like destruction, but in this shot, it looks like natural destruction more than man made. That, for me gives it a more nature’s beauty feel instead of a senseless waste feel. You’ve done the HDR wonderfully. This shot is sure to live on in your favorites… and ours. Great job and commentary.
Great picture. Sadly for us, the man kind has the special ability to destroy, instead of build and conserve:|
Fantastisk presentasjon av dere på
http://neverwriteitdown.blogspot.com/2009/04/go-on-adventure-with-framed-and-shot.html
og den var vel fortjent til dere “kongelige” fortografer
For et fryktelig bilde. Flott, men fryktelig i sin dokumentasjon på menneskets trang til å utslette naturen…
Jeg liker at det er litt farger på høyre side, slik at det ser ut som om alt det grå og skyene er på vei inn for å “utrydde” fargene.
Wow really powerful and sad image! Incredible shot!
Like what you wrote here, and this is exactly what you presented in this photo. However, that silver tone with gorgeous sky gives me on the other hand another feeling – of nature, of powerful nature that destroying something , still leaves behind something very appealing . I experienced war, back in country, and witnessed the other kind of destruction !!! Nothing could compare with that !
Awesome processing, makes me sad to look at what we people destroy to build more…
Great HDR effect, well framed, liked it.
Wonderfull image! It looks very dramatic
The apocalypse captured. Great shot.
A pity to see the place after a fire, you’ve managed to pick up the dramatic rise of this image with impact.
greetings!
Although you expressed a relative dislike for the image you posted before this, I couldn’t help but notice that it bears a certain kinship to this one. The ocean surface in the previous one, while more inviting, appears barren in a way. And it too has a wooden remnant jutting from it. Perhaps the two would make a fine diptych.
This is a desolute and thought provoking photograph. Your use of limited color is particularly effective – the harsh destruction in B&W with just a hint of hope in the pale blue sky.
Grusomt med slike ting, bare valser det ned og legger det ødelagt tilbake. Et flott bilde, og absolutt et bilde til ettertanke.
Human progress, isn’t it wonderful. Great HDR shot. Paradise is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. Unfortunately many beholders see things from a distorted point of view.
That’s a great shot. You’ve framed it very nicely and the low viewpoint works well. I guess this kind of scene is being repeated all over the world at the moment.
Beautiful HDR image. Just in time for the earth day..
Amaizing landscape… It seems to be a lunar one…
Wow… That’s probably how earth will look like after a nuclear war.
In the pace we are keeping our world at the moment, this is more of simulation of the future than something imaginary.
beautiful and barren and sad all at once. seems like such a waste. beautiful photo of it though. you captured an incredible range of color here.
Great shot. It looks like a scene out of Gears of War or some other video game post-apocalypse.
On the left looks like a dinosaur leg, and on the right a giant worm
Very cool image!