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Surely one of the most dramatic man-made landscapes in Wales, this is the Parys Mountain copper mine on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey.
Now abandoned and turned into a historical reserve, this huge hole in the ground is an unreal kaleidoscope of colours as the various ores leach from the rocks.
Here and there, pools of groundwater have established themselves, creating otherworldly reflections in their mirror-like surfaces.
I scrambled down a small scree slope to reach this particular pool, attracted by the mix of colour, cloud reflections and the foreground rocks that I reckoned would make an attractive composition for a photograph.
Well worth getting a bit dirty to achieve.
Filename - parys mountain 12.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/30 sec @ f11, ISO200
Filters - Polarsing filter used to reduce glare. 2 stop neutral density graduated filter used to balance the brightness between the scene and its reflection.
Location - Parys Mountain, Amlwch, Anglesey
This image - 640x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - -0.3ev exposure compensation used to preserve highlights
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