Stills

One can only presume that it is a poly-tunnel but what the wide mesh wire is leaves me guessing wildly, although being a trellis for growing on seems most likely. What is glowing? Is it the sun striking clouds the other side or is is something inside? I don't think that I have any insights to add to what Auspicious has said. Fascinating.
 

It is a Poly-tunnel and the fence is to keep the public out. Whatever they grow here must be worth a lot and has a very short picking season. From no pickers to more than a hundred and back to none in a couple of weeks. There is no way to sneak on to this farm!

I was motivated to take the picture due to the attempts of the nimby brigade to force a requirement for planning permission on farmers for poly-tunnels. I may have inadvertently achieved the opposite, I was trying to make them look attractive, I think I've made them look contentious. I also had in mind an image of the Eden Project (John L's?)

I like poly-tunnels because they reduce food miles. I hold this opinion until I am informed otherwise!
 

Hmm, what would one be growing that would be valuable enough to require such a fence?
 

Food miles? Our neighbour's polytunnel has reduced the travel distance for our summer veg to food yards.

The only thing that I can find to argue against polytunnels is when they get left up over winter in places were they predictably blow down and scatter great sheets of the stuff over the landscape.

As to the fence, our neighbour has fenced his polytunnel plot as well. It is to stop the deer getting in. A polytunnel full of deer is not a good idea.

And, Rex, yes. I think you may have achieved the opposite....
 

Matt, it could be anything and with this height could be mixed, including tomatoes, maybe even strawberries.

Reducing food miles is good but I don't think that it is that simple. It will be interesting to see how the demand for water increases at a time when it is in shorter supply in the South of England (a problem in Spain). Also how the fertiliser balance works out and what condition the soil ends up in. Basically, pushing the land (or a species) too hard for anything is not good. The old idea of trading what you had for what you didn't have is not bad as long as the transport used is more carbon neutral - that one could be tackled sensibly with newer technologies.

No doubt the tunnels will join nuclear power stations and wind turbines to give us our new countryside, cheek by jowl with motorway flyovers and giant sites of warehouses and supermarkets not to forget the theme parks!

As to the picture - it is easier to get a positive picture of a wind turbine than it is of a poly-tunnel!
 

I showed this image to a friend today and told him where it was taken. He told me that somewhere in that area they legally grow marijuana!

I forgot to say that the image was taken 'into' the sun and I think that various reflections and refractions of the sun have caused the golden glow.
 

Yes, lots of questions for this one. What's inside? Can I take a look? Why the fence? Well, I suppose to stop people answering those questions themselves. Is that fence wired into a power supply?

Interesting in a curious sort of way.
 

I find the grid very distracting. There's some beautiful tones and texture behind the grid....that's what I felt a week ago. Today I find the grid much less distracting. This could be anywhere though. It needs more of its surrounding to make me believe this is in the countryside.
 

furthermore, I actually find the grid a little more interesting than its behind. I'm curious as to how the kinks managed to get in it...