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Well I wasn't expecting that!
My wife Liz and I have spent the last thirty odd years holidaying and exploring around the beautiful Isle of Anglesey, just off the North Wales coast, and you would have thought that we'd seen everything there is to see by now.
That's what we thought, until we decided to pay a visit to Parys Mountain one afternoon while driving past Amlwch on our way to the north coast.
Have you ever turned a corner on a path and found yourself in a different world?
We just stopped open mouthed at the huge hole that appeared before us as we followed the heritage trail from the car park.
Once the world's largest copper mine, the scale of the excavations just beggared belief, and then there was the colour palette.
For me, the colours of Anglesey are primarily green and grey, so I wasn't prepared for the rainbow hued leaching in the different levels of the opencast pit, with browns, reds, yellows and oranges all vying for attention.
If it wasn't for a solitary tower on the other side of the pit we could have been on Mars.
What started out as a brief diversion just to see what was there turned into a full afternoon's explore and photograph session as we worked our way around the heritage trail, with fresh colours and contours greeting us at every turn.
The images I created from the shoot look good, but to gain a true appreciation for this awesome place you'll just have to visit for yourselves.
Filename - parys mountain 06.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 35mm
Exposure - 1/80 sec @ f11, ISO200
Location - Parys Mountain, Anglesey
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Polarising filter used to enhance colours
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