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John,

This is the line for Arnisdale. I think that you know Arnisdale.

When you look at the infrastructure involved in the supply then one wonders whether an old fashioned diesel generator wouldn't have been better let alone a modern combined heat/power plant.

Glenelg is quite far down the track of installing wind generation. If that works then I would hope that Arnisdale would follow.

This is, I would say, a hostile view of pylon

Not intended, but I understand why you say this. At the time I was more concerned about flicking ticks off my trousers than the finer points of aesthetics or anything else. I did get away without a bite that day, but it took some effort. The area had its first confirmed case of Lyme last year. Ticks have moved up from 'nuisance' to 'dangerous' in my mind.
 

I never got to Arnisdale.

It is horrendous how things like Lyme's disease spread comparatively rapidly. I'm not sure whether it is around us: I have never heard it mentioned.
 

Power lines, ticks and Lyme disease; sounds like my home county in Missouri! If only you had pine forests growing on top of the bones of clearcut hardwood forests, this would feel like home.

Not sure what I think of this composition. I want to take a couple of steps, but perhaps that would be too obvious.
 

As I still have odd things happening to me as a result of Lyme's disease nearly two years after being bitten keep taking the precautions!!!

This is, I would say, a hostile view of pylon

That is how I interpret this picture too. As an engineer also noticed the pylons are only 50% loaded.
 

As an engineer also noticed the pylons are only 50% loaded.

Rex, I thought that you would notice that.

This is, I would say, a hostile view of pylon

I'm going to start challenging you all to expand on that idea.
 

Quickie
I am confronted by the pylon, it obstructs my view and my progress into the countryside, almost in an aggressive way with its stance.

There is no beauty in the pylons in their presentation or pattern, for me.
 

I think that I have said it: I disagree with Rex about the beauty of the pylons pictorially but agree with his first sentence. It is the fact that one is forced to look around the close-to construction that, whether one agrees or not, jars on the landscape: thrust in one's face in that way it immediately poses thoughts about management of the land.
 

thrust in one's face in that way it immediately poses thoughts about management of the land.

Yes, but not necessarily negative ones.

I see the safe navigation route through some pretty tough country. Also, I'm sure, that the arrival of electricity in Arnisdale was a seen as a positive event. The pylon also symbolises things like the arrival of medicine.

It isn't that I'm arguing that pylons are a great thing, but I am interested in the strength of the negative reaction.

I am, in fact, completely neutral on the subject. They are there. I photographed them.
 

The configuration of the upfront pylon is a cartoon face...and a quite stern one at that. I find this shot unsettling based upon what I have just said and the crossing of the two pylons. It sure stops me getting into the scenery on offer with this shot as all I focus on are the pylons marauding ever onward.
 

you do not have many trees in your area do you?
I keep on looking around that pylon as well.
This picture is all wedges made from the hills and pylons.
 

An interesting thread for an interesting image. I agree with Rex's use of the word "confronted" -- I want to move that pylon or step around it, but I can't! It shows the power an image can have over the imagination. Only if I try very hard can I see that pylon as simply lines dividing up a flat image into shapes.

The ones in the distance are a whole different story -- they seem almost graceful to me in a way.