Workers from Winco Powerline Services of Portland, Oregon, work on AEP powerlines in northeast Ohio in a 1977 Hughes 500D N500MZ.

PowerLine Series

Hooks were used to add the top wire. I assume it's for lightening guard.

My favorite powerines photo in quite some time.

Fast moving storm making it's exit after raining on my parade. Best viewed at original size.

Electrical Pylons near the NEC, Birmingham.

This is Slemco's substation for Northeast Evangeline and Northwestern St. Landry Parishes

These giant towers have to be erected for the the high tension wires to cross the shipping channels.

The PowerLine AV 500 Adapter uses electrical wiring that’s already in your house to provide fast reliable Wired speed

Clark Mountain

Mojave National Preserve

California

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Multiple exposures, hdr

Located in Myrtile Beach SC. (Santee Cooper) 34.5 left 230 and 115kv right

So what's going on here then Joel? Why run power underground, then up these poles to distribute it to houses, and not just into each house underground?

Powerline,Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Hasselblad 503 CXi with Kodak 400 TMax. Lens Carl Zeiss Planar 2,8/80 mm CF.

Xtol stock.

Used workflow proposed by Michel Pollet, see oomz.net/bw_workflow/ and got a result that I liked. Had initially scrapped this picture using "negative monochrome scan".

I thought they looked neat.

Eiffel Pylon arrives on site, armed with EU mandate to kick the crap out of Didcot's turbine hall.

the pole with transducer units

Part of My Black and White Collection

Only the bottom insulators were replaced.

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Wierd five cornered pink pole. I've seen only 4 of these in the city.

Thompson Springs, Utah

Checked the powerlines and substation north and west of my house.

Newer Slemco poles. The riser feeds underground power to a new subdivision down this street.