Honey, please come down from the attic-it's been 20 yrs

A petroleum company have commissioned me to make some photographs of the interests they have in heavy industry and urban infrastructure.

They asked me to photograph various landscapes using the 'tilt/shift' effect. What this easy-to-do effect does is throw various parts of the scene into blur. It's been done millions of times before and will be done again, but it never ceases to look uncanny.

Scenes look like miniature models.

It's a gimmick in a sense, but I was thinking that this may be what most architects when they are faced with the world. It's easy to gloss over complex problems when the inhabitants of the scene are objectified and become gnomes with no feelings, or workers.