Armageddon Ticking - Defaced Earth from the Air

 Armageddon Ticking - Defaced Earth from the Air

                                                      Dr Abe V Rotor

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On-line school project: Make a Pictorial Essay from these photos. Write the appropriate caption of each of these 13 photos. Briefly explain the 20 factors that contribute to the destruction of our Planet Earth. Next time you travel on air, take the seat by the window and photograph Mother Nature from the air. These photos were taken with a palm-size ordinary digital camera set on its maximum ISO.
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Armageddon Ticking

Armageddon in human hands released,

piece by piece ticking with the clock;

innocence denied, sanity defied

to the final shock.

Time capsules all into infinity:

pleasure and pain, evil and goodness -

all that is on planet earth,

into emptiness.

It's Sodom revived, so with the Flood

and Vesuvius a thousand times;

and in war none but the innocent

is the price.

And the god in man and man in God

in futile struggle comes to end

the earth shall be no longer,

so with a heaven.

Fabled paradise shall be no more,

lost and regained, and finally gone;

then a new world shall rise - perhaps

without man. ~

 

Here is a series of aerial photographs taken on my travel to Roxas City from Manila and back on August 3 to 5, 2011, showing the different ways and stages on how the Earth is being defaced by man's activities. 

1. Expanding settlements
2. Rise of urban centers
3. Coastal runoff and siltation
4. Water pollution
5. Marginal communities
6. Vanishing shorelines
7. Pirated rivers
8. Clogged waterways
9. Super infrastructures
10. Deforestation
11. Desertification
12. Siltation
13. Illegal constructions
14. Heavy industrialization
15. Eroded hills and mountains
16. Submerged islands
17. Reclaimed coastlines and coral reefs
18. Garbage dump and incineration
19. Inversion layer and smog
20. Changing geography

 
 
 
 

Photos were taken by the author on an airplane, Manila-Iloilo, with
Sony Cybershot, and edited with Adobe Photoshop program. ~