When the dust settles...

Another shot inspired by the challenge:

Both are wonderful shots, Sami; I especially love the twin tree trunks!

Thank you Val =)

great!

Thank you Katja =)

These are both so beautiful. Wow, really good work, Sami.

Thank you very much Karen =)

Love them both Sami
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Thank you Janano =) I hope the connection gets better, sooner or later...

Nicely done Sami ... I do sincerely hope though that there was no need to change lenses on that shoot! ;)

I use compact camera ;-) And I was far from the smoke/dust. I'm actually not sure which one it was, smoke or dust. There was some machine on foreground, which gave me this nice "smoke effect".

like how the "white" dust get into collor

Thanks Wertti =) There was luckily some machine on foreground where this smoke/dust came from, giving me this nice effect.

Wow. The dust gives such energy to the photo.

It was a lucky coincidence to get that smoke/dust on foreground. The demolition site is actually rather big and well surrounded by fences, which made it rather difficult to get two (or more) machines into the same picture =)

Nicely done Sami. :)

Thank you Chris =)

Very cool shot, Sami! Ballet of excavators with lots of special effects;-) The twin trees are also nice!

Thank you very much Gudrun =)

I like the tree trunks best as well.

Thank you HC =)

It took quite a few scoops to clean up 911.

Yes, indeed =(

I like the way how the site is now turned to commemorate that tragic day.

Quite a symbolic interpretation, well done Sami

Thank you Gillian =) Those terrible clouds of dust and ruins are what I remember best from that incidence. I saw the second hit live from TV, but especially those towers rumbling down was somehow even more horrifying view. Lake taking the last hope from people who were still in those towers.

Quelle poussière :o)

Merci, Didier =)

...very poweful and fitting photo, Sami. IU saw it live too, it was just horrifying. Will never forget.

Thank you Lutz =) Yes, that day will be remembered. But thinking that day also made me to update my own knowledge on many other horrors we human kind have done. For example this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombing_of_cities

And Baldwin's argument, "The bomber will always get through": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through

Indeed Sami, I lived in one of those cities half of my life.

Hamburg Now and Then - View from the Belltower of St. Michaelis - West

It is heart breaking to watch old document films and photographs, how people in Germany (and also elsewhere) had to start building somewhat everything again, sometimes with nothing else but their bare hands.

Great photo Sami! :-)

Thank you Norm =)

Ein Bild mit viel Ausdruck.

Danke schön, Chrissy =)

hum wow, this is quite fitting for a tribute Sami, that clean was a monumental task

Thank you very much Wendi =) Yes, especially monumental task that 9/11 cleaning was because they had to seek for body parts and all sorts of evidence =(

Zuviel Beton auf dieser Welt .... Bäume sind mir lieber.

Same thing for me, Heidi. Trees are much better! =)

cool. great sense of action in the diggers image

Thank you Amaz =)

Cool shot!

Thank you Dida =)

a bit of a cruel tribute, but very true words