Falun Gruva Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The pit of the Falun coppar mines. A World Heritage site.
This pit is large and was created by the collapse of the old tunnels on a day when fortunately nobody was inside. Most of the rubble has been dug out of course and this is what remains.
The most fun part of the mines is a guided tour trough the remaining tunnels. This is not a small mine. Once it produced the most coppar in Europe and remained in operation until the 90's of the 20th century.

What you see here is a stitch of nine photographs. Also did some tricks with the colors and some dodging & burning.

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nwoehnl (118) 2004-12-30 16:21

A very impressive piece of work, Sander. The large panorama really makes me feel as if I were standing at the very brink of the pit, the crispness of the textures is excellent, and the color setting is quite unique. Good stitching job, and well done on whatever other post-processing magic you did ;-)

Tue (25608) 2004-12-30 16:27

Nice picture with a great variety of colours! The sky looks good as well! Well done!
Gelukkig nieuwjaar!

Andrzej_HHH (2556) 2007-01-20 19:20

Amazing colors of this famous mine. Great overwiev. Best regards! Andrzej

Photo Information

Copyright: Sander Admiraal (Azrifel) (842)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-07-00
Categories: Nature
Camera: FujiFilm FinePix 602Z
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Mining and miners, World Heritage Sites Part VII [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-12-30 14:17