A photograph was taken from Beeston Castle. It took some time to find the place on Google maps, but I found it. It is interesting to see the place from above and from the street. The view is completely different of course. I was always amazed how our mind built maps which we use for orientation. Our mental maps are different than the "real" maps. I know the moment when mind comparing its mental map with a geographical map. A moment of WOW I had completely another idea how it should look the map. As a child I tried to draw a map from my memory, I was satisfied, but it was entirely different from the real.
The ground level photographs look like a different place, we do not see the same details. We are not able to recognise the lines, the small "wood".
The same situation is in the second photograph. The view from a high attitude gives us a lot of information, we can see more building, more roads. Seeing the same place from the ground level we get a different image of the place, more details of closest objects. Seeing it from above we can get the structure of the town divided by roads for example.
John Davies, Agecroft Power Station, Salford, 1983
I really like the photograph. Without spending some time I would certainly overlook the details here, like the football match or training, the horse on the left corner. We can see those information thanks to the elevated viewpoint otherwise we could not. If we have a closer photograph of the towers we could not see the football players. The towers would be out of its context. Great example how to introduce an object into the place it is. The effect of being able to see the football game in the shadow of the towers is somehow surreal, the connection between pleasure and current technology in that time. It reminds me, Julian Verne's stories. Really big objects - towers and small creatures playing the game.
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