Collateral damage of a modern society

[MHD]

Industry

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Taken just outside Southern cross station in Melbourne looking south west...

[Nnnnsic]

Doesn't do much for me compositionally, I'm afraid, and your horizon seems out.

[mark]

The exposure and colours look great in this.

Perhaps you could straighten it then crop to Landscape. I'd crop somewhere around the arches in the foreground building and loose more of the sky, although I'm not sure the smoke stack will fit in a standard 3x2 crop.

[Killakoala]

I looked at it for a while and decided it disgusts me. So it must be a good photo to invoke an emotional response from me Well done Scott.

Fix That Horizon.

[daniel_r]

I reckon if you crop it at the gutter line on the foreground building that'd fix it up (along with a bit of a straighten). Colour looks good.

[MHD]

I looked at it for a while and decided it disgusts me. So it must be a good photo to invoke an emotional response from me Well done Scott.

Fix That Horizon.

That was the aim... At that time in the morning there is no blue in the sky so it accentuates the bleakness...

I will play (as much as you can) with the composition through cropping and see what I get...

[Reschsmooth]

I, personally, don't know what the photo is trying to say - that we live in an industrialised country where small to large areas of our landscape are dominated by industry? Perphaps if the smokestack was billowing, the effect or the message may have been stronger.

I could suggest that a similar shot taken over Mosman, Sydney, could be equally as harrowing given the knowledge that residents of Mosman have one of the largest ecological footprint in Australia, if not most developed countries.

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