Diggers, those praying mantis-like steel monsters, are invading, eating everything in sight.
They have docile, benign-like names such as Deere and Cat, but don’t be fooled. These creatures are dangerous. They level everything.
Then they begin pushing huge mounds of dirt back and forth. The machines build a giant mountain of dirt here today. And tomorrow they move the mountain over there.
Finally, the dirt is leveled and smoothed like a farmer’s field. Hundreds of seeds are then planted. They sprout into a new Florida subdivision.
Hundreds, no, thousands, of baby boomers now stream into Florida, like lemmings blindly following each other over a cliff, to live “The Dream.”
Soon the diggers will reappear and the destruction of the places where the wild things live will begin again.
nomad, interrupted
29 May 2016Excellent photos done in black & white, Ron, symbolizing the manmade destruction of nature. These photos have a powerful emotional impact.
fotograffer
9 Jun 2016What we are doing to the land around us is disturbing, but we are all part of the problem.
Dalo 2013
29 May 2016Great perspective on these shots Ron ~ and the B&W seems to make the contrast between these beasts and the Earth that much more apparent. Awesome series ~ awesome story within these photos.
fotograffer
9 Jun 2016I wanted to exaggerate their menacing nature by shooting low with a wide angle lens in B&W. Thanks, as always, Randall