I'm going to try your patience with a loner than normal post today...
Around the turn of the last century a lot of different countries set up mining outposts around Chile. This is whats left of a large administrative area in the desert between Chanaral and Antofagasta. Desolate then and now...
1/ 320s, at f/16 || E.Comp:0 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 08:56:15
1/ 250s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-4 / 6 || 40mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 09:13:59
A more recent abandoned memory...
1/ 400s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-10 / 6 || 40mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 09:31:01
And of course, lots of people were born, lived and died there...
1/ 5000s, at f/14 || E.Comp:-18 / 6 || 24mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:14 11:29:44
Which leads me to the next subject.
If you've driven the roads of the Western U.S. and now further afield, you've become used to the sight of small shrines set up in the memory of victims of the road.
This is popular in Chile too, only there it has become a very much bigger thing.
To begin with, I was reluctant to photograph these. A sense of intruding on someone else's unhappiness, or perhaps not wanting to exploit that, I'm not sure. In Chile though, these shrines are very characteristic of the country and each one is extremely individualistic and worth a close look...
1/ 500s, at f/16 || E.Comp:0 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 08:43:35
They often tell the story ... see above...
1/ 200s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 09:55:09
Some are very simple, and more poignant for it...
1/ 400s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-4 / 6 || 44mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:20 06:47:44
Or very elaborate ...
1/ 160s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-4 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 12:59:14
They often include somewhere to sit and spend a little time...
1/ 250s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 09:45:02
1/ 400s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-6 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 11:22:57
1/ 1000s, at f/11 || E.Comp:-2 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 13:50:25
1/ 400s, at f/11 || E.Comp:4/6 || 40mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:15 13:51:09
A tree for shade where none can grow...
1/ 320s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-8 / 6 || 35mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:19 12:50:36
To end, a cry often heard in the desert...
1/ 250s, at f/22 || E.Comp:-6 / 6 || 40mm || WB: AUTO 0. || ISO: 400 || Tone: || Sharp: || Camera: NIKON D3on: 2016:03:20 09:25:11
I certainly don't mean this post as a downer, but the images certainly made me think as I took them...
I'll be gone for a while, so the posts resume when I get back.
As always, thanks for looking.
