All Quiet on the Surface

a slide show of art photos taken on the Blue Ridge Mountain near the entrance of the Mount Weather Special Facility. The photos are meant to go beneath the surface to express the usually unconscious fears we all have about the future of human life on our planet. The Facility is a 600,000 sq ft underground bunker 46 miles from Washington, DC begun in the 1950s and maintained on alert since then, to assure the survival of essential civilian and military personnel of the US government in a major attack on our country. Most of congress was taken there by helicopter on 9/11.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• emptiness
• fog
• crisis
• apocalypse
• underground
• fears
• no one
• Mount Weather
• nuclear
• biological attack
• bunker
• doomsday

[westwaleschemtrails]

I think you really succeeded with what you set out to achieve. I am a Gallery Owner and I think these shots are astoundingly good, showing exactly what Photography can do with clear intention. Really brilliant. Great sound track. If this sequence was the trailer of an up coming film, It would get a LOT of attention. You are clearly expressing what we are all feeling. Sheer Genius.

[chorando]

This Is Superb Stephen - I wondered why you didn't post on Flickr, but then realised the length. The images alone are worthy of a book - the music fitting perefectly to express the emotional response to the bleak and beautiful juxtapose. I love it all and am deeply impressed. C

[Tsurudo]

Thank you for sharing this video. It was very moving. (I genuinely appreciated that you included the pictures of the Flight 514 crash site). The music and pictures were for once, a very fitting tribute to the tragedy that occured there on December 1, 1974.

[tj5555555]

do you all think we are in the beginning phase of a forceful take over by a totalitarian cenrtal command like the rise of hitler 1937 +or- ? tj

[allgoraro]

Beautiful photos. Too bad they are showing us the high command's bunker.

[augustatapadas]

I'm here, again.. and wiil be everytime I need to get some inspiration..

;-) hello

[augustatapadas]

brilliant work...

.. touching

[kaytah3]

Well done......documentary of sorts on Mt. Weather. Although I don't live near there anymore - I still often wonder about the underground world and hope that there is very little use for it. Were the crosses and flowers at the sight where the plane went down years ago?

Your pictures are very insightful!

d.