Stacked
Blaenavon Big Pit 2012 Series.
Continuing the series from my visit to the Mining Museum at Blaenavon. Yesterdays image showed the overspill boxes of hats for the visitors, and this is the tidily stacked shelves of hats waiting for use. An ordinary enough image but a very poignant one for me. It counjoured up memories and similarities of the piles of skulls collected in the killing fields of Cambodia and my thoughts were easily transfered to the fact that these could just as easily be the hats of miners who had given up their lives for the black gold beneath our feet. Thousands of Welsh miners have died over the years, some underground and even more from the effects of coal dust, and it is to all these hard working and long suffering men that I dedicate this image.
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Stacked
Blaenavon Big Pit 2012 Series.
Continuing the series from my visit to the Mining Museum at Blaenavon. Yesterdays image showed the overspill boxes of hats for the visitors, and this is the tidily stacked shelves of hats waiting for use. An ordinary enough image but a very poignant one for me. It counjoured up memories and similarities of the piles of skulls collected in the killing fields of Cambodia and my thoughts were easily transfered to the fact that these could just as easily be the hats of miners who had given up their lives for the black gold beneath our feet. Thousands of Welsh miners have died over the years, some underground and even more from the effects of coal dust, and it is to all these hard working and long suffering men that I dedicate this image.
Mono version here: www.flickr.com/photos/wdig/6941246262/in/photostream
BEST SEEN ON BLACK. Press "L" or click on image, then on a PC press F11 for full screen
view, or view in Fluidr (use link below).
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Comments/Invites are always appreciated, but please do not place Multiple Invites,
Personal invites to view images, Flickriver Badges, or Animated badges with comments.
They may be deleted.
All my images are © All Rights Reserved, and must not be used in any form whatsoever, on or in any
type of media without my written permission.