Botallack mines

• coriana6jp

• May 14, 2009

This is is also very nice, great shot!

Gary

 

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  keithwms

• May 14, 2009

Wow, what a scene, gorgeous. Can't imagine what it must have been like to work there.

 

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  outwest

• May 14, 2009

Keith, if you mean work in the mine, you're correct. The decline starts below the buildings and runs out under the sea. It is said the miners in the upper levels could hear the boulders on the sea floor being rolled about by the waves.

 

• CarlRadford

• May 14, 2009

Well composed - orientation was a good policy!

 

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  bill spears

• May 14, 2009

Great viewpoint Baxter, unusual for this often photographed area.

I've had many 'darkcloth disorientations' on the edges of Cornish cliffs - very unerving !

 

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  Derek Lofgreen

• May 14, 2009

Great composition, great colors. I keep getting lost in this one. It makes you wonder what it was like in it's heyday. So beautiful yet I doubt the miners thought so at the time. Quite a juxtaposition.

D.

 

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  Mark Burley

• May 14, 2009

Very nice viewpoint Baxter - nice captures all round.

Mark

 

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  clogz

• May 15, 2009

Great picture, Baxter!

Hans

 

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  Baxter Bradford

• May 17, 2009

Thank you all so much.

I had identified this new viewpoint a while ago and wanted to revisit when conditions were right. Summer sunset might improve it still further as the angle will illuminate the mine walls and headland above the mines more strongly. The downside is the the cliff face bottom LHS faces the same way and might become dominant. No harm in trying though is there?!!