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)
contour lines, leftscape #39, turkey, 2023 (to stop water from flowing down the hill to cultivate plants locals carved paths in the rugged terrain)
leftscape #46, morocco, 2025 (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)
playa del sol drive, 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)
leftscape #45, morocco, 2025 (sand protection made of date branches stuck into the sand to protect nearby gardens that are now abandoned)
leftscape #47, portugal, 2025
colonial half-life scars, leftscape #1, australia, 2012 (maralinga: british nuclear bomb test station, abandoned in the late 60s)
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 #5, usa, 2017 (test range on the salt flats in utah)
leftscape #23, usa, 2017 (golf course in california closed down due to high water prices and changing consumer behavior)
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)
leftscape #17, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #8, usa, 2017 (calibration field for analog cameras of airplanes. now all done digital)
leftscape #6, 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 #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 #18, usa, 2017 (track to the abandoned eagle mountain iron mine)
leftscape #7, usa, 2017 (test range on the salt flats in utah)
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 #22, usa, 2017 (abandoned tracks near the border to mexico)
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