Perhaps this is a George Perkins Marsh moment. Perhaps not. I snapped this in Carter County, southeastern Montana yesterday. The dozer appears inoperable, and there are daises growing out from behind the blade. The two-track road is rarely, if ever, travelled, not to mention barely maintained. It all seemed photogenic with the buttes in the background, too. These are the same buttes that represent the very tail-end of the Rockies, and the beginning of the Black Hills and western Dakota (both north and south) Badlands. Enjoy.
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Man and Nature
Perhaps this is a George Perkins Marsh moment. Perhaps not. I snapped this in Carter County, southeastern Montana yesterday. The dozer appears inoperable, and there are daises growing out from behind the blade. The two-track road is rarely, if ever, travelled, not to mention barely maintained. It all seemed photogenic with the buttes in the background, too. These are the same buttes that represent the very tail-end of the Rockies, and the beginning of the Black Hills and western Dakota (both north and south) Badlands. Enjoy.
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I think the clash of the machinery with the landscape is an interesting idea. Perhaps if this isn't moving & you can go back there, you could see if the perspective using a wide angle near the truck wouldn't serve the purpose. That would bring it prominently in the foreground.
Matter of fact, if you crop out the present foreground with your hand, that'll give you an idea of what you'd get. Except that, with the wide angle, your subject at close range would be magnified.
That metal monster looks like some kind of dinosaur, on a greenish moonscape. Pretty good shot, MFT.
Pepe, after posting this, I shut off the computer, and flipped on the television for a quick five minutes. A movie entitled "Transformers" was on, and I thought to myself, "No longer is it Man and Nature, but Man vs. Technology..." Similar ideas have been discussed.
As for the mobility of the dozer, I believe it's stationary. I'll need to invest in wide angle lenses, or grab a different camera next time. I can't say when that would happen. It'd be great to get the shot from this same perspective just after a winter snow storm, too.
Thanks for the props, AI.
I never could decide if the landscape MFT is now in, that of Montana along its Dakota line, middle and south, was eerily and beautifully dreamlike, or a nightmare. See an afternoon of quick running thunderstorms breaking the light over that unsettling earth and you will know what I mean.
Perhaps MFT can take more photos? :)
AA, serendipity strikes, as of Sunday afternoon, southeastern Montana, the high plains. We got out of there okay. Earlier that morning I changed a flat near where the tornado (see link) later touched down. Also see the lightning strike we captured, too.
This one is going down in the Cultural Resource Management Annales, and I now need to get back to paperwork -- but I'm cracking another beer while doing it, bitches.
Enjoy the pics, fellas.
~mft
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