Wylie uses a combination of line, color, and shape in his photos of these three very different landscapes. Using the sky as a rather subdued and blank background, Wylie highlights the landscapes by framing them with this light. He clearly does this to link all of his pictures as well as showcasing the different geographical locations. He also chose to place every building in the middle of his shot. He was shooting anywhere from 30-50 feet away, not including the middle photo in which case he probably stood on a near by peak.
Wylie uses the landscapes of countries that have almost seen war in these exact locations. His content, though it is very simple and almost a subdued feeling, they still are packed with meaning. The towers shown have all been involved in some kind of nuclear detection device and all three have been over the years abandoned. His content and meaning have very similar attributes, his content being these war sites and the meaning showing that though these sites seem peaceful and washed out they were almost sites of catastrophe.
I really thought his meaning was cool. The fact that he shot these places knowing that they had the potential to ruin whole countries and invoke war I find it eerie and odd. Although these pictures don't have much subject matter they still pack a serious message within them. I think the background makes them all very similar even though they are from different parts of the world, I think that makes them more of a collection of these places and that even though they're different they are still the same.
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