Beautiful Desecration - Dinorwic Quarry, Snowdonia, Wales - DJI AIR3 / DJI AVATA 4K

High in the Mountains of North Wales, in the shadow of the mighty Yr Wydffa (Snowdon) lies an incredible industrial wasteland, Dinorwic Quarry.

The land lies blatantly torn asunder, open cast workings, waste heaps and mine tunnels pepper the site, dotted with long abandoned and derelict mining buildings - winching houses, offices, mills and tramways punctuate the scene - built from the same slate as was mined and still lies all around in the waste heaps.

And yet although the land lies defiled, it is not an unseemly blight, but instead a monument to those who came before, their lives, their blood, sweat and tears.

There is something otherworldly about the scenery, the vast scale of the workings - over 2 miles long, a mile wide and thousands of feet in height - only adds to the sense of otherness, it is almost incomprehensible to our modern minds that this was created by men, and with minimal machinery - mining started in the 1700's and ceased in 1969...

Anyhow, it's a great place for a walk and to explore, and also a great place for flying drones - we saw several other folks flying on the day we visited...