Not new news—just an enthusiastic recommendation of a long-time favorite that will maybe help you pass time at work as the week pulls to a close: photos by Edward Burtynsky.

Burtynsky makes amazing pictures of big things, strange, scientific and beautiful. His documentary works address scale and excess. Artfully depicting vast human impact in series on mines, quarries, shipbreaking, and industry in China, these are images worth looking at for all kinds of reasons.

Photo: Burtynsky's "Oil Fields No. 1"