No I don't live in a power station. I do however live very near here. It dominates the landscape and whatever direction we could come home in we can see it. Right by it, literally right by it, is the train station we use so my littlest just thinks of this sight as being the train station, which means one of two things 1) daddy coming home from work or 2)granny coming to visit. So all in all this is a great view though I would guess many will disagree.
Pylons marching across the countryside! To or from yours? I like the train! And the clouds! And the river bank! Good composition! Hang around and you might get a shot of a cooling tower collapsing! Wouldn't that be good? (Who needs all that power? We are making our house into an energy fossil fuel-free zone! The car has gone and in a couple of weeks the oil fired central heating will have followed suit!)
We live reasonably near to a row of pylons marching across the fields & they do have their own beauty specially when the sun is setting behind them.
It's ok saying these power stations are blots of the landscape but we need to get our power from somewhere.....don't want to have to rely on Russia!
@newbank From a visually aesthetic point of view I love the juxtaposition of big technology in a rural environment, but I think we are over-hooked on easy energy. For getting around I have a choice of bikes! For shopping I use the ultra strong push bike with large panniers, which admittedly is more of a challenge in winter but in extremis there is the bus with an hourly service. Wife usually walks the couple of miles to work. When travelling around Wales (which she has to do quite a lot) she always uses rail or bus. In fact she has been the main force behind the drive to go fossil-fuel free.
@happypat Where do you think the coal comes from Pat? It's not home produced in any quantity any more. With regard to fossil (and nuclear) fuels we have next to no energy security. A similar argument could be made about the rare elements used in smart phones and all the other high tech gadgets to which we have become addicted and no longer an Empire to raid for the resources! We have to depend on the rest of the world like it or not.
@yrhenwr I don't like it David ...the electricity companies all seem to have been bought by foreign companies too. We live in the country & have used generators to milk our cows & we have a wood burner but some people think even that is pushing out the wrong gasses. I just think we have to be realistic....not everyone can bike & walk ...the world goes on & we have to have a vast amount of energy to keep the world going. I agree too much technology that most of us could do without & live a simpler life. I don't fancy walking everywhere & we have no bus route. I think it's living in cloud cuckoo land to expect solar & wind turbines to provide enough energy for the modern world! Pity they don't look at the sea for power, all that water & waves round us & all wasted, I know there is a bit being done but it's all too late!
Sorry Ruth we seemed to have hijacked your post!
@happypat no worries....I highjack peoples post and talk and banter utter rubbish on them...... Quite happy for a serious conversation to be conducted.
Intriguing image and thread. My get pushed this week was to take a photo of power and I've been plotting how to get a shot of pylons when we drive back to Chicago tomorrow. Your shot reminds me of a scene in France when we go lost there this summer. It struck me as such a contrast to see the signs of nuclear and electric lines, and just down the road were windmills. Big issues to be sorted out for our planet's future!
I certainly share others' concerns about the health of the planet and coal-fired power stations, and would like to think this photo is an excellent visual record of a soon-to-be-extinct species. However, I know enough to accept that we're stuck with them for a while yet. Having got all that off my chest, I must say I think this is a terrific shot of an industrial site. The image is wonderfully clear and I just love looking at all the details and lines, and the train gives a great sense of scale to the power-station structures. Definite a fav for me.
I wrote this big long story in response to Marnie, Pat's and David's comments.. than I thought, this is a photography site, I'm not getting embroiled in that debate here...and deleted it.... so Ruth, I just want to say I love your photo and I do like industrial subjects. :)
It's ok saying these power stations are blots of the landscape but we need to get our power from somewhere.....don't want to have to rely on Russia!
Sorry Ruth we seemed to have hijacked your post!
@happypat Love your term "cloud cuckoo land" . May have to use that. LOL