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The descriptions of the place are quite awe-inspiring, but it seems like the photos don't do it justice. Where are the photos of "giant cranes (aptly called Gol

• e12e 11y ago
  It's a strange thing, with the scales (I presume) are involved (here as well). I worked a bit with refurbishing "small" oil-rigs, now used mostly for search drilling. They "only" stand about 70m above sea level when elevated for refurbishing. But even these "small" rigs (typically built in the 70s, with a goal of lasting 5-10 years) -- are so huge -- that most people that worked on them had no issues with vertigo/fear of heights. When you stand on top, looking down, all the sizes are so big, that your brain doesn't see a 70m drop down to the ocean as all that far, because the support towers are so huge, that you just cannot fathom their size. Sometimes you can look down, and make out the ant-like forms of people working -- but even then, the brain just can't process the dimensions. I think I have some illustrative photos on a drive somewhere, but apparently not on hand. One of the few photography projects I'm aware of that comes close to both capturing the size, and displaying the size, is the series by Edward Burtynsky that I became aware of through the film "Manufactured Landscapes" - scenes like: http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/site_contents/Photographs/Mines.html http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/site_contents/Photographs/Min... The magnitude quite literally boggles the mind - the size is just super human. And that usually transfers quite poorly to film.