Category / day / industrial / man-made landscape
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Corporate landscapes #4
This is a shipping terminal close to the potash mine slag heap in my previous upload. And with these images (see below) I am saying goodbye to this landscape – but only for now. Later this spring I will come back for further investigations.
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Corporate landscapes #3
The sheer size of this slag heap is amazing. It is 250m high, 1100m long and 700m wide and contains 150 million tons of salt. And this is only what you see. The mine which is feeding this man-made mountain covers an area of 312 km². As you can imagine such a massive venture is not without consequences for the environment. With every rainfall salt will be washed out and…
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Corporate landscapes #2
This is an image of the opposite direction of my previous uploaded. The main building here and there is an analytical laboratory of one of the biggest potash mines in the world. The mountain in the back is the slag heap of the mine. (ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 1/500sec., 14:12)
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Corporate landscapes #1
(ISO 100, f8 @ 38mm, 1/320sec., 14:27)
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Transformator
(ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 3sec., 21:02)
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Backyard, Differdange, South-western Luxembourg
This is a backyard in the same street as in my previous upload just a few hundred meters away and in the other direction. Behind the garages you see some buildings of the ArcelorMittal steelworks which is the biggest employer in Differdange. (ISO 100, f8 @ 48mm, 1/250sec., 15:11)
