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acrylic prints nature acrylic prints landscape acrylic prints spain acrylic prints las medulas acrylic prints roman acrylic prints gold acrylic prints mine acrylic prints water acrylic prints man-made acrylic prints unesco acrylic prints world heritage site acrylic prints rudi acrylic prints prott acrylic prints

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Also when it looks like a natural landscape: Las medulas in northern Spain is a man-made environment. The romans had their northern most gold mine in the province of Lusitania. The hills are the remains of a big sandstone plateau which was washed away by systematic jets of water. Much work was done in 200 years of mining but the result was more than poor. When melted together it would be a cube of 4 to 5 inches side length. Only the use of slaves made it somewhat provitable. Copyright by Rudi Prott, Munich.

I started photographing when I was 16 years old. In the beginning I set the focus to soccer. Four years later I made the photos for the local soccer team and the local newspaper. After having finished my university studies I started traveling. Photographing nature and sometimes city views replaced the soccer engagement. In the 90s I had two exhibitions in the rooms of a Life Insurance in Munich (Carnevale di Venezia and Nepal). The Venice images where used by a big pre press company for a calendar. For 2012 I published my first own calendar about World Heritage Sites of Nature. In the next years some shared exhibitions followed: 'modern architecture', 'micro and macro photography', 'black and white'. Important notes: All my artwork is...