Why are the clouds blue in half the pictures, copper in the other half? Its either photo filters or the white balance is waaaaay off.

it is almost entirely photoshop filters, seph lawless is notorious for this. read more about his antics here...

Seph Lawless is a known fraud, and long been a pest in the exploring community. It’s all Photoshop man.

it’s hanging off shelf for fuck sakes. it’s the only thing hanging there too.

how much do you want to bet the photographer took that ‘someone special’ sweater and hung it there like that. it’s too perfect... lame

Except it IS chert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chert; chat is a larger grouping (used by the mining world) which includes chert and other types of rock.

Meh. A lot of these pictures could be shots of any small, half-abandoned town anywhere, countryside around such towns, or unrepaired structures or roads after a disaster like Katrina. The insides of the houses are what they are. I’m not sure how much of it requires a filter. (Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your question?)

That's how 99% of Oklahoma looks

Yeah, they’re lovely landscapes but without context they lack for a lot of meaning or emotion beyond “flat with neat clouds”.

No more ominous than any other ghost town on a cloudy day.....

It would have been kind of nice to see some photos of these same locations without the foreboding clouds in the background. Almost any place can be depicted as creepy with the right sky.

To be honest, this just looks like a normal somewhat rainy day in Eastern Kentucky. Not saying that’s a good thing or bad thing but those people who aren’t accustom to similar sites should know.

The material making up the piles is called chert, not chat, and is being sold off to road construction companies for use as aggregate.

Thanks for that link, it tells the story of that place much better than the photos run through copper colored photo filters.

You may want to do a bit more research into who your source really is before publishing. What you have here is a “photographer” who is mostly known for being caught stealing others work to pass off as his own, fabricating back stories (see the Trolley Tragedy of 1957 below), and even going as far as harassing and…

It’s all photoshop. He photographed these during the day, and photoshopped them to look ominous. It’s pretty much his MO at this point.

“I didn’t even hear a bird”

Just FYI, the existence of a mine doesn’t magically make things toxic.

Ominous Instagram Filter

Man, lucky the gloomy weather showed up just in time for the shoot.