November 4, 2016
I am starting today with photographs of wind turbines because I am always in awe of how they look and sound. I know that there is a lot to design to make functional things in everyday life prettier or more interesting. But I also feel that things that are designed for ergonomic reasons only can be quite beautiful – these towers among them.
As an aside, it struck me as funny that the nation’s wind power museum is actually located in Lubbock, Texas – wasn’t that the oil producing state? Here is a short history of the harnessing of wind power:
http://energy.gov/eere/wind/history-wind-energy .
Other utility poles have their own charm – those for the laundry, as well as those for the aerial tram (although the people who fought the tram probably disagree.) Can you believe it will be 10 years old in January already?
Bridge posts construction has its own attractiveness and sometimes mysterious looks – I will show only a few photos here, since I will probably talk about bridges during another week. I don’t know a single photographer who is not enamored with bridges…..
And then, of course, there are those posts that separate the acolytes from the masses at mass…..
