We asked Greg Locke, a Newfoundland and Labrador photojournalist with more than 25 years experience: if he could shoot the offshore in the same style as Burtynsky, what message would he convey?

"What strikes me when working offshore is to see these enormous manmade structures in the ocean, devoid of scale. You're communicating the enormity of something manmade in the landscape. So it's very much the same. You know what a photographer shoots is personal, it really is personal, and particularly if you're doing it ... from a personal art theme or a personal project, it's about what inspires you."

"As a photographer it's about what interests you. My interest is in people. And that comes from the journalism background. I'm interested in people's stories. So a lot of my work is focused on people against the enormity of the industry, so a lot of my work shows people working - and that gives it the human scale."

"In St. John's, it would be the cars, the houses, the people involved in the oil industry, so it's more photographing the people and the wealth that it's brought to St. John's. But by the same token you can turn around and look at: what are the bad things that not necessarily the oil industry, but any wealth brings to town, the drugs, the street crime? And you can go an photograph that also. So there's always the good and the bad. if you just portray one or the other than you're not really giving a true scope of the story."

"If it involves a wider environmental aspects of anything, be it oiled birds or pollution from a hydro plant then I still try to look for the human impact as opposed to just the beauty in the horror."

"There's one of a worker working with anchor chains and a crane, and he is totally dwarfed in these monstrous anchor chains. And to me, I think that kind of represents the industry here as the small man manipulating anchor chains, lost in these anchor chains that outweigh him by thousands of tonnes, but he's still manipulating something that's far bigger than him."