Sterile

This is a detail from a large open pit copper mine from my country Romania. The mine is located in the Apuseni Mountains, which are a very beautiful mountains, not very high in altitude, hilly looking like. Also this mountains have a lot of small villages with some interesting livestock shelters with a unique appearance, on the hills.
Better details on the mine should be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro%C5%9Fia_Poieni_copper_mine

I shot this image in the twilight light before the sunrise, I also enhanced the contrast with a S-curve and increased the saturation in order to enhance the light at that moment. The white balanced is set so it doesn't neutralize the blue light.
The image could be appealing, but when you see the whole site how it intrudes in the natural landscape, it makes you very sad to see how the people are intervening in the nature.