Industry

The scale and density of things/people is really satisfying in this picture. I'd love to see it printed huge and be able to spend time exploring all the people and shapes of the industiral constructs. I love the contrast between the public having fun and the industrial buildings behind.

I just loved the monochrome world created here. The coating of dust creates a real visual dichotomy. On the one hand the whiteness creates a crisp clean feeling of a set of architechtual model. And on the other it's actually a coating, a grime created by the hard labour of the workshop. A beautiful and entrancing image, well done.

There's a real bleak beauty in this shot. It's really interesting how it's all silhouetted but there's layers to it that your eye really moves through. I just love the way the sihuette picks out all the intricate metalwork of the gantrys and pylons it entrancing. The composition is really well balanced too. All the elements feel placed there so we can investigate them individually but they also work together to fill the scene in an incredibly balanced way.

I think a combination of beautiful lighting and repetition of similar forms and shapes makes this scene look like a sculpture. There's something peaceful about it too. No people or movement. like a breath taken inbetween, as when we consider the subject is probably a space work, noise and industry.

A beautifully arranged shot and a nice interpretation of our theme. Industry doesn't have to be giant scenes of hulking machinery and edifice, humans are industrious in many ways. It's nice that we get to focus on one small element of production.

I'm obsessed with the light in this shot. It's like something from a Denis Villeneuve film. It has the grandure of one too. The subject is equally dramatic, a huge space with an excellent placement of a worker to show us the scale. I think black and white was a lovely choice too, it adds to the drama and defined all the geometic shapes.

Definitely the most dramatic image I've seen in this competition. There's something very viceral about it. I love the clost crop so there's a bit of abstraction and we get to focus on all the smoke with all it's awesome beauty. This abstraction gives us a kind of allegory where the smoke makes us think of so many things, industry, power, modernity, enviroment and mans place within it.

There's a real playfulness in this shot. Impressive given the subject matter. The composition feels considered and designed to play with scale. Which messes with your brain a little and makes you think of toys. I like the lack of context too, giving the viewer to think in a myriad of directions.

Of the many pictures of large boats and ports I have seen in this cometion this is my favourite by far. The composition is spot on, we're so perfectly lined up with the cranes the perspective effect we get from them all lining up is really beautiful. The rest of the scenes geometry and colours really line up too and the detail is just beautiful. Having more port and containers right into the lefthand background really gives an extra sense of scale of industry. Finally the use of a really long exposure adds yet another level of interest and gives us interesting little artifacts like the ghosting of the cranes. It also completely smooths the sea out which I really think hightens the geometric feeling and I just love it.

I really love the interplay between the shape of the building and the cranes, one so rugged and so smooth and flowing. Also thinking about how one came from another and their relationship there. With a blown out sky and so much white it feels incredibly graphic.

The way the foliage of the foreground creates a real window into the scene that draws you eye in. It nicely frame and contrasts the shapes of human construct behind. The use of a very long lens really flattens out the depth of the shot and makes it very satisfyingly graphic.

A really great choice to use black and white I think. It makes the shapes of all the rocks and moss in the foreground mingle with the clouds of water vapour from the geothermal plant. There are so many textures in these and the dramatic forms of the plant too it's a real feast for the eyes.

I really enjoyed the use of tiled images here. Building a series of shape and form through repetition of subject, heightened by the use of black and white. There's a real grittyness in almost exclusively seeing rubble and wasteland. A great concept well done.

I love the drama of this shot. Catching the day at the perfect moment with the beautiful sunset blending with the artificial lighting of this hulking edifice. There's an incredile series called "American Power" by Mitch Epstein that this is very reminiscent of.

A simple but truly beautiful image. The shape of the form perfectly works with and compliments the nodding donkey. The two also work together as a quip about the power of nature and the power of man. I love the low angle and soft focus of the corn in the foreground, it adds a dreaminess.