fingerprint island, leftscape #29, croatia, 2022 (ex-vineyard: walls were built to clear the ground and wind protection. 'drunken rabbit' rumors: competitors set rabbits free that overpopulated and ate up the vineyard)
hazardous beauty, leftscape #11, usa, 2017 (ex hazardous waste evaporation pool in californias desert. protected by 3 fences. luckily nature creates beauty even at ugly traces of mankind)
desert mole, leftscape #31, morocco, 2023 (250y old foggaras dug by slaves - an underground water system with vertical shafts, connected by a gently sloping tunnel which carries water to a lower oasis. left cuz motor pumps)
broken arrow, leftscape #13, usa, 2017 (concrete arrow from the 1920s aviation navigation system for night flights of air mail planes. light towers every 10 miles guided from coast to coast)
contour lines, leftscape #39, turkey, 2023 (to stop water from flowing down the hill to cultivate plants locals carved paths in the rugged terrain)
desert dreaming, leftscape #1, usa, 2017 (in 1958 a real estate developer master-planned californias next mega city. the plan failed due to lack of water for millions. the streets all have names)
german channel, leftscape #28, palau, 2020 (to reach phosphate deposits with big ships the german colonial rulers dug a 15m deep channel into the riff in 1908)
dleftscape #45, morocco, 2025
lincoln boulevard, leftscape #9, usa, 2017 (in 1958 a real estate developer master-planned californias next mega city. the plan failed. the streets all have names)
leftscape #8, usa, 2017 (calibration field for analog cameras of airplanes. now all done digital)
leftscape #5, usa, 2017 (test range on the salt flats in utah)
leftscape #6, usa, 2017 (test range on the salt flats in utah)
leftscape #7, usa, 2017 (test range on the salt flats in utah)
leftscape #14, usa, 2017 (the eagle mountain iron mine closed down in the 80s)
leftscape #23, usa, 2017 (golf course in california closed down due to high water prices and changing consumer behavior)
leftscape #10, usa, 2017 (3 times fenced hazardous waste site on the border between california and nevada. the liquids evaporated or entered the soil)
leftscape #16.2, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #2, usa, 2017 (abandoned mine in mojave desert)
leftscape #4, usa, 2017 (abandoned field in nevada)
leftscape #17, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #18, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #16.1, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #15, usa, 2017 leftscape #14, usa, 2017 (the eagle mountain iron mine closed down in the 1980s)
leftscape #12, usa, 2017 (dirt race track abandoned in nevada)
leftscape #3, usa, 2017 (abandoned mine near the ghost town of rhyolite, nevada)
leftscape #21, usa, 2017 (abandoned tracks near the border to mexico)
leftscape #22, usa, 2017 (abandoned tracks near the border to mexico)
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