{"id":3910,"date":"2018-07-05T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2019-07-30T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:50:57","slug":"the-terrils-of-the-nord-pas-de-calais-mining-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/the-terrils-of-the-nord-pas-de-calais-mining-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terrils of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising over the towns of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1360\">UNESCO-listed Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin<\/a> are <em>terrils<\/em>, or spoil tips, human-made hills of mining debris more than 450 feet tall. During my recent trip to France to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/david.schalliol\/posts\/10101551194864880\">screen <em>The Area<\/em><\/a> and participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdvaveclaville.fr\">RDV avec la Ville<\/a>, I expanded my <em><a href=\"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/hautsdefrance\">Hauts-de-France Mining Basin<\/a><\/em> series with aerial images that highlight their context. The following images are a few of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/metroblossom\/grCgFi\" title=\"DJI_0455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1838\/43009339271_0bff3ea0ae_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0455\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/43009206131\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"DJI_0525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1781\/43009206131_72eb344eca_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0525\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/28141094597\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"DJI_0434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1815\/28141094597_9188a568de_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0434\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/metroblossom\/56skbu\" title=\"DJI_0384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/925\/42313541475_34b4193cf2_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0384\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/metroblossom\/ksc130\" title=\"DJI_0578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/915\/43052310121_6bb9e10ce2_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0578\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/29137586038\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"DJI_0410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1839\/29137586038_4f92c85b9a_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0410\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/28122715097\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"DJI_0216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/880\/28122715097_1b11921edf_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"DJI_0216\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising over the towns of the UNESCO-listed Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin are terrils, or spoil tips, human-made hills of mining debris more than 450 feet tall. During my recent trip to France to screen The Area and participate in RDV avec la Ville, I expanded my Hauts-de-France Mining Basin series with aerial images that highlight their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[434,441,437,439,404,440,422,444,442,438,436,435,443,432,338,433],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photograph","tag-aerial","tag-anzin","tag-coal-mine","tag-denain","tag-france","tag-haillicourt","tag-hauts-de-france","tag-loos-en-gohelle","tag-marles-les-mines","tag-mining","tag-nord-pas-de-calais","tag-nord-pas-de-calais-mining-basin","tag-roost-warendin","tag-slag-heap","tag-small-town","tag-spoil-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Terrils.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-114","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}