From Waste to Wonder From Above

• Photographer
  Ingrid Hendriksen
• Agency / Studio
  Ingrid Hendriksen Photography
• Technical Info
  Shutter 1/1,000 , Fl 70mm , F/7.1
• Photo Date
  September 2023

Aerial photographs of the tailing ponds from an Australian Gold Mine. The water baste tailings , ground up rock minus the gold, are pumped as a slurry to the tailing dams. the dewaterring and evaporation brings out these amazing shades of Aqua and Blues.

Ingrid was born in the Netherlands and moved to Australia in 1981. She completed a diploma in photography in 2012, and received her honours L.A.P.S. and A.A.P.S. from the Australian Photographic Society in 2015 and 2021. She loves People, Aerial and landscape Photography, and is passionate about using her craft of aerial Image making, as a tool to share "Australia from Above". Ingrid and her pilot husband have been flying around Australia, the US, Canada, Alaska and Africa, combining their passions for Flying and Photography.