Dundas: Quarry

By Christopher van Donkelaar / May 20, 2008 / 100 mile ART Cambridge, Colour, Dundas, Place, Projects, White / 4 Comments

Visiting the LaFarge Quarry in Dundas is quite an experience. The quarry opens it’s gates twice a year to rock-hounders and, because I’m a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Gem and Mineral Club, I was able to attend. Everyone met on a side road, and when I arrived and saw the seventy odd cars already there I was worried about all of us being crammed into the quarry. But after the safety talk we drove convoy-style into the quarry and that worry vanished. The quarry is huge! During the rest of the day I only saw five or so cars …

The LaFarge Quarry produces the most rock annually out of any mine in Canada. I really wanted to try and get across the scale of this place and the best thing I could come up with is the image above. I hope you’ll take the time to play with it. If you need an incentive to do so you can play a fun game called, “Find Christopher’s Car in the Quarry”. I drive a green VW Golf, and it is in the photo above (somewhere …).

I’ll write tomorrow about my time in the quarry, but for now: Have fun!

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4 Comments

  1. Caroline
    May 21, 2008 at 5:19 am

    I found it! Its a bit tricky to make out if its really a VW or not, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got the right one. :)

  2. Christopher
    May 22, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    I’ve received a report that my explore-able photograph above will only work if you have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed on your computer. I hope that too many visitors haven’t been bothered with this! I have done what I can to try and make this load correctly, but if you are having trouble please make sure that you have Flash Player 9 installed.

  3. Patricia
    July 8, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    I think I found it too!
    What a neat photograph. How did you take it?

  4. Christopher
    July 9, 2008 at 5:16 am

    I’m glad you liked it. I created the photograph by taking a series of shots along the same horizontal line and then stitching them together using Adobe’s Photoshop program.