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Copyright 2018-2020 Dave Green

24
Mar
2013
New Age of Exploration


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I’ve been inspired recently seeing new images initiated by the Curiosity rover and beamed back from Mars.
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It’s so interesting that the cutting edge of exploration is a camera 36 million miles away, programmed to automatically take photographs, in much the same way as I shoot the interior of a cave on the coast of North Devon, England, Earth. Below is a self portrait done in the same way, a 55-frame sequence that captured everything the technicians back on earth needed to make the image; a combination of those frames, again much like I do with my own photographs.

A color self-portrait of the Mars rover Curiosity, which is set to drive toward a Martian mountain in mid-February after drilling into a rock.

A color self-portrait of the Mars rover Curiosity, which is set to drive toward a Martian mountain in mid-February after drilling into a rock. See a larger version here

See a larger version here

I had considered the concept of exploration and documentation a somewhat Victorian occupation with little in common with the contemporary issue based arts practice of today. But these images give me solace as some of the places I find to photograph can certainly feel very remote, unseen by human eyes and unexplored.

It ought to be noted that these amazing photographs where originally sent back to earth in monotone and a technician has patiently sat at a computer and added the colour, in interpretation of what we might see on Mars. I’m certain, once Curiosity eventually returns to Earth, it will hold samples of the rock and sand photographed and an accurate colour picture will be made. The rover will also possibly bring back high resolution colour images; now wouldn’t that be something!

Combe Martin Silver Mine Cave, Devon ©_Dave_Green

Combe Martin Silver Mine, Devon