I've looked at the old pole here for almost everyday of my life. Does it do something to you when a pole you've known all your life is changed?

Can we say mis-matched insulators

Powerlines in Karkkila

Powerline towers in the Dutch landscape

..:: "How about.... science SLUMBER parties!" ::..

Yashica J-5

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm f/3.5 MC

Fuji Superia 800

Acrylic, ink on printmaking paper

Self portrait

Art by me, photo by Alan Alabastro.

These are the same lines but in the other direction, on their way to the power plant in Eunice. The poles are old but the old pole serving as a crossarm was replaced with that metal one.

This is a 7 mile long line with lots of lightening arresters as well as a guard wire at the top. I guess lightening is a problem in this area. It is a wide open plain.

These are some of the newer Slemco poles outside of Scott, LA. These poles were changed just to add the line at the top.

Powerline shot at night on Canon 550D/t2i with Tokina 11-16mm lens at f/4.0 ISO1600.. Testing new Tokina lens, it really is pretty wide indeed..

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Huge cultipacker made for removing small trees growing under the high-voltage powerlines to avoid energy loss by lowering the capacity between the wires and the ground. I think, it was built from road roller drum by welding spiral ridges to it. Diameter of the drum is ~2 meters.

A blue and cheerful sky on Broadway Avenue, complete with traffic cone.

In a very Vancouver kind of turn of events, I shot this phot the same day as this one.

Notice the different insulators on the left than the two on the right.

I took this shot yesterday almost on the same spot as the "Spring" photo. But these two photos don´t have much in common... :) While the Spring shot represents the first life after a long winter, this one represents a whole lot of darkness.. maybe Metallica would use this as their album cover?

Three power companies all involved with this set up.

Yes I am obsessed with power lines

I wanted to take a picture of the houses in the background but the copious powerlines were hamming it up so I played along and it became a picture of them.

OPPD. Sarpy, County, Nebraska. May, 2012.

Carlsbad, New Mexico

Coventry Court where it meets Cresta Vista Drive, San Francisco; Mount San Bruno, with its array of broadcast towers, is about five miles away.

Unfortunately my friends's 48 was a tad dusty

USDA photograph by Phil Eggman

This isn't a camera trick, it is definitly leaning this much

The top circuit is newer, the bottom is over 20 years old.

Entergy built a regulator station, capacitor bank, and recloser on three concecutive poles.

One was to power the truck stop and the other two are for the circuit to under the interstate instead of around the exit.

"powerline"

Power lines

Concrete pole. Concrete poles are ussually only for 69kv on up. It seems like some money was shelled out for the new parkway because Entergy crosses with either steel or concrete poles and Slemco's are either steel poles or the lines go under the road.

Created by Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. 2016/06/11

These were recently upgraded. This one still feeds into the old pole.