Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Lovely, awful

South Roxana, Illinois
Photograph by Tom Atwood
How can an image be lovely and awful, at the same time? The same way a refinery can. The ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery in South Roxana, Illinois is beautiful and horrible. I have been fascinated by it for years, and struggle still to actually capture it in a photograph. This attempt was made around Christmas looking down a residential street. 
Shutter: 1/4 sec; Aperture: f/4.5; Focal Length: 26 mm; ISO: 800

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