Fascinating aerial pictures of water. "To capture the essence of water, Burtynsky shot from the air, riding in bucket trucks and flying in airplanes and helicopters with his digital Hasselblad camera. “You have to have a slightly higher point of view; standing on the ground doesn’t really tell you what’s going on,” Burtynsky said about his vantage point for the project, an aesthetic he has used in other series. “I was standing back, and I didn’t get into the minutia; I got into the bigger idea, what we do from above and looking at how we shape our landscapes based on water’s availability and what we do to [it] once we redirect it.”
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:17:54 +0000
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