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Altered Shores 1

This was my senior project.

 

It is difficult to find a beach without any evidence of intrusion made by man. In these images what would normally be a lovely beachscape is now obstructed by a pipe, a jetty, a building, or even an old sunken ship; forgotten entities slowly decaying in the sea. Yet the photographs are still beautiful, as if these objects have been a part of the scenery since the beginning of time.

 

So now we are forced to ask ourselves some questions: What is nature? What is beauty? Must we stress absolute preservation? Or can we ultimately accept the gradual integration of humankind's mark in the environment?

 

Shot with a Hasselblad 500CM using a 10 stop Neutral Density filter (ND 3.0)

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Uploaded on August 22, 2008
Taken on October 24, 2007