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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Rajan Parrikar on May 20, 2021, 12:41:01 pm

Title: Sand Mining
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on May 20, 2021, 12:41:01 pm

Sand Mining. (https://blog.parrikar.com/2021/05/20/river-mining/)

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: RMW on May 20, 2021, 01:39:48 pm

Rajan.
Thank you for posting this and the link to your explanation of what is actually occurring. Fotos can lie and I think it's incumbent on us who make them to be carefully honest about this.
Richard

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: RMW on May 20, 2021, 02:36:51 pm

And yours is the right example !

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 20, 2021, 04:13:20 pm

Amazing an appalling!

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: John R on May 20, 2021, 04:53:18 pm

Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 20, 2021, 04:13:20 pm

Amazing an appalling!

Wonderful images Rajan! I saw whole video on how certain kinds of sand was running low, and like oil, they have to go further into nature to extract the sand and thereby damage the ecosytem. Never would have guessed this about sand.

JR

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 21, 2021, 04:21:06 am

Good photo of a sad reality.

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on May 21, 2021, 05:11:36 am

Richard, Eric, John, and Paulo - thank you.

John, illegal and unregulated sand mining is a global menace. The search keywords "sand mining" brings up several links. See, for instance -

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-hidden-environmental-toll-of-mining-the-worlds-sand

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: Bob_B on May 21, 2021, 07:01:00 am

Echoing Paulo's comments, and thanks Rajan for both the photos and the backstory.

Title: Re: Sand Mining
Post by: francois on May 21, 2021, 09:50:29 am

The image is wonderful with the haze and all these boats together but the title already was a grim intimation of the job of these men and their boats.