Edward burtynsky, critique

Edward Burtynsky photographs speak to human ingenuity and humean excess as well as the wastefulness of human industry. In the picture is a airplane graveyard, airplanes in which are no longer needed but highly expensive when they were acquired. Military might is relative to the technology at a nations disposal. These are dinosaurs from only decades ago but still rival most countries military resources in technology and expense.
The photograph to me represents a revolution in both military and consumption and much like a veterans death, the loss of a loyal soldier. lined up in the same fashion as tombstones these planes mimic the changing landscape of war as well as priorities. When something becomes to costly to maintain it sits, much like our junkyard, land fills and in a human aspect, elderly. Waste is very human and in my opinion has become such a daily routine that the fragments of lost necessities find places out of our eyesight. Edward Burtynsky finds these lost or looked over things and creates a pattern pleasing to the eye but thought provoking.