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The old world will burn in the fires of industry ...
The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machinery of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc. (J.R.R. Tolkien).
Everytime I witness that some of our precious nature is being sacrificed on the altar of industry and greed I think of these words of Saruman of Isengard. This site though isn't so bad. It's the powerstation in Svartsengi, which is used to produce electricity, hot water and it's very famous side product, the blue water used for the Blue lagoon. But there are plans to sacrifice more precious sites in the future and I'm really sceptical.
I took this image on my way home from work yesterday in Svartsengi (Black meadows). As the rain was pouring so heavyly I had to take the image from the drivers seat of my car. "Driver's seat photography" could become a niche within photography. I've taken one other image from my driver's seat before (When my ship comes in ...).
The image is a single 1/160s exposure at f5.6 +1EV in RAW. I used the Canon EF55-200 f/4.5-5.6 USM lens at 60 mm. I used the default settings in ACR. In photoshop: adjusted contrast, colors, dodge and burn.
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Aaron of NEPA, rayhue, [ changó ], u n c o m m o n, and 171 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Lumatic (57 months ago | reply)
....at least it is CO2 neutral ?
Aaron of NEPA (57 months ago | reply)
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Stunning...
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dadiolli (57 months ago | reply)
great capture!
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Suriani (57 months ago | reply)
Terrifying and great at the same time! Stunning picture
Antoine BARBOT (57 months ago | reply)
great capture ! fantastic
maybe too much white at the down of the photo, just my opinion
AntonioArcos aka fotonstudio (57 months ago | reply)
impressive!!
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u n c o m m o n (57 months ago | reply)
Speechless..
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A great one!
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Tangent~Artifact, here sometimes :) (57 months ago | reply)
Oh my... Instant fav again. I love this smoke and fog (beginning ?) series. The atmosphere you created though P-P is amazing, surreal. I'd be curious to see the original, because I suspect you put in a lot of creativity and skills during P-P - it's not just a nice capture, right? :)
ps: I like the quote, too. It really fits the image!
Imapix (57 months ago | reply)
It says it all...... perfect!
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beforethecoffee (57 months ago | reply)
Ah yes, what I call a drive by shooting. ha ha. Very nice tones and powerful subject Asmundur.
twentyeight (57 months ago | reply)
Great shot....................perfect.
Bodvar Eggertsson (57 months ago | reply)
Mjög svo flott skot, eitthvað svo kyngi magnað við þessa mynd
Vaeltaja (57 months ago | reply)
Excellent capture.
cam i am (57 months ago | reply)
wonderful shot. great words too.
OneEighteen (57 months ago | reply)
Very dramatic light. Good one.
Igor Alecsander (57 months ago | reply)
excellent shot
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1st class!
zimmuh (57 months ago | reply)
great photo...our steam plant sits adjacent to the water treatment facility directly across from the ocean...its all very lovely....
aj77 (57 months ago | reply)
a stunning shot. wonderful
Kayak49 (57 months ago | reply)
Very powerful shot.
{wyethhouse} [deleted] (57 months ago | reply)
amazing image and words... thank you for sharing!
_white.rhino (57 months ago | reply)
su fuckin great man! you are fuckin groso
NY_Doll (57 months ago | reply)
really beautiful!!
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h9ooo-4 (57 months ago | reply)
it doesn't make sense to post a comment when u already have comments from here to berlin but this photo i realy love
*a_a* (57 months ago | reply)
wonderful photo....scared future...
baby7 (57 months ago | reply)
super
DanielaNobili (57 months ago | reply)
Strepitosa
LexWil [deleted] (57 months ago | reply)
Father of Time rests.
CharlieBrown8989 (57 months ago | reply)
May I blog this??
Thanks....
asmundur (57 months ago | reply)
Thank you all!
@CharlieBrown8989: It would be an honor.
lynne bernay-roman (57 months ago | reply)
fantastic photo. great atmosphere captured. wonderful eye.
jenla (57 months ago | reply)
The shot is amazing ~ coupled with the quotation it gives a sense of doom. Very moving!
jarnohakulinen (57 months ago | reply)
Great smoke and fog! It really is ominous...
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Ben124. (57 months ago | reply)
Great capture
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Paddy McDougall (57 months ago | reply)
great shot...words of wisdom
rockstro (57 months ago | reply)
What an amazing shot!
Sunset Sailor (57 months ago | reply)
This is not less than a fantastic image.
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rolhas (57 months ago | reply)
great !!!
--Steve (57 months ago | reply)
Wow!
jhunt (57 months ago | reply)
I love the irony in how something so ugly can be so stunning, a great capture.
snack happy (57 months ago | reply)
delicate and powerful, very strong picture
Dave Mellenbruch (57 months ago | reply)
Our great-grandkids will look at this and say "What the hell did you idiots do to us"?
Randy Son Of Robert (57 months ago | reply)
Mr. Fusion, where are you when we need you?!
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The Coultate's (57 months ago | reply)
Fantastic picture. Have you seen Edward Burtynsky's stuff, www.edwardburtynsky.com?