Power lines

Esther often daydreams about the many possibilities in her future, from becoming bilingual to apprenticing a pottery maker to having a lover while in Europe. The author details Esther's fantasies in a metaphor, which compares them with telephone poles with wires that "dangled into space" as far as she could see, but she couldn't see very far at all. - Josh

Eula Biss begins with the telephone. In a series of facts and headlines she offers a brief history of Alexander Bell’s famous invention and the so-called “War on Telephones Poles” that ensued in America in its wake. But “Time and Distance Overcome” is not an essay about property rights. It is not an essay on telephone poles as symbols of urban blight, or the miracle of invention, because “Even now it is an impossible idea that we are all connected, all of us.” Instead, it is an essay on the…

Power Lines

Power Lines at Sunset

power lines

One of the big challenges of landscape photography is incorporating elements into a landscape that you perhaps might prefer were not there. One of the common visual pollutants in our world is power lines running through pristine country. We think these photographers have made a great effort of incorporating power lines or even making them a dominant part of their compositions. Share your own efforts in the comments! Cincinnati - Mason Community 'Power - Nature & Man-Made' by David Paul…

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