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photosetJun 13, 2013 12:49 pm
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linkJun 08, 2013 7:11 pm
Nobody Knows About This Little Town, But You Should Before It's Literally Wiped Off The Map Forever
Things that matter. Pass ‘em on.
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linkMay 13, 2013 4:38 pm
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photosetMay 11, 2013 3:22 pm
From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:
‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.
I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.
Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.
The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.
‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.
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linkMay 01, 2013 10:10 am
After This, You’ll Never Look At The Ocean The Same Way Again
If you think climate change is bad now, just wait until you see what it looks like (after you come out of your cryogenic freezer) in a few hundred years.
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linkApr 29, 2013 3:22 pm
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linkApr 09, 2013 10:16 am
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photoApr 02, 2013 10:16 am
I’ve Never Had A Pie Chart Make Me Gasp Before
Go on, climate change cynics: Bite me.
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linkMar 30, 2013 10:16 am
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linkMar 28, 2013 7:11 pm
