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High Voltage Transmission Pylons, near Tracy, CA, 2010. (fedia.io)

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High Voltage Transmission Pylons, near Tracy, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the electrocution hazard, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491938005/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This was captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

This "portal" type transmission pylon, looking like part of an army of rather menacing giant robots, is part of the Pacific AC Intertie, one of the two major power transmission trunks running up and down the western US. It has capacity for about 5 gigawatts of electric power.

Do not climb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] they look straight out of Tron

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Here, as elsewhere, infrastructure is quietly heroic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] May I quote you on that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Interesting compositional choice, to include the fence. I’d probably have omitted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I go back and forth on how much context I like to show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I like the interplay of off-vertical lines