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Featured Work

Dungeness by Greg Artis

The sun sets behind electricity pylons leading from the atomic power stations at Dungeness in Kent, England.
Sunset tonight by barnsis

Sunset tonight taken by the Tiger Lillies.

Recent Work

comms cabinet by dimsim

A communications installation atop Castle Hill, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. Castle Hill is the other granite monolith overlooking the city (“Capital of the North”), which is the only thing which obscures the view of Mt Stuart from any part of town. Probably the city limits could be defined in terms of these two bluffs—on the mainland, if you can see the face of Mt Stuart or Castle Hill, then you must be in Townsville. Both host communications towers, and both provide public lookouts.
Wind Farm by Andrew S

Love them or hate them these are becoming part of our eeveryday life. Guess it’s a start to helping slow down the damage we do
Mt Stuart by dimsim

Mt Stuart, ever-present sentinel over tropical Townsville, North Queensland, Australia.
electric coal train by dimsim

Tail end of a coal train at Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, which is gradually snaking into a handling facility. Diesel trains in this region have been gradually all becoming electrified, allowing the local coal power stations to provide the source of power. Visible in the distance behind the train is a nearby coal-fired power station. This image is one of a number I took around Queensland’s Capricorn Coast region, which is dominated by cattle and coal industries.
Sunrise 1 20-07-08 by Sharon Perrett

This was sunrise on Sunday morning that I shot form the local golf course. This was while waiting for the sun to come up and was taken at 4-45am
You'll love the view, and so much wildlife! by Eden Sandwell

A new estate being built at Lyndhurst south east of Melbourne Victoria.
Anzac Bridge At Sunset by Peter Hill

Subject / Anzac Bridge, Sydney, Australia. Looking west, as the sun was disappearing below the horizon and the wid-week commuting horde was streaming across the bridge. I left the aeroplane in the image mainly because it was too hard to extract (!!) but I think it adds scale. I mean, the Anzac Bridge pylons (there are only 2) are enormous. Technical Details / Shot taken with Fuji Finepix S1000fd, on auto at zero zoom (33mm). In Photoshop, it was sharpened and cropped. Then the offset was ramped up severely. Brightness and contrast were tweaked, but the major effects achieved were via Poster Edges (to remove the fuzziness of the clump of vertical steel ropes in the lower middle) and Diffuse Glow. See also Anzac Bridge And Aeroplane
giant marching robot formation by dimsim

Power transmission lines escape from a power station in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. This image is one of a number I took around Queensland’s Capricorn Coast region, which is dominated by cattle and coal industries.
railway microwave link by dimsim

A microwave-link dish at a rail station in the Capricorn Coast region of Queensland, Australia. This image is one of a number I took around Queensland’s Capricorn Coast region, which is dominated by cattle and coal industries.

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About This Group

This group is for pylon photo’s and art.

We are here to help each other out with critique and tips, and to learn advanced skills together as a group on Pylons.

also worth looking at is this super site ..
The Pylon Appreciation Society @ http://www.pylons.org/

Yangtze River Crossing 2003 China Jiangyin 346.5m Tallest pylons in the world.

PYLON MEANING

py·lon Show Spelled Pronunciation[pahy-lon]
1. a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently used in races.
2. a relatively tall structure at the side of a gate, bridge, or avenue, marking an entrance or approach.
3. a monumental tower forming the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple, consisting either of a pair of tall quadrilateral masonry masses with sloping sides and a doorway between them or of one such mass pierced with a doorway.
4. a steel tower or mast carrying high-tension lines, telephone wires, or other cables and lines.
5. Aeronautics. a finlike device used to attach engines, auxiliary fuel tanks, bombs, etc., to an aircraft wing or fuselage.

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