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turns out that when you grow up in a city that had codified underground power infrastructure decades before you were born, if you move to places that don't have said initiatives you get really excited about power lines and utility poles and end up filling a majority of your photo library with them as the subjects

or maybe that's just me??

(sunset photo unrelated, just let me have this)

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dusk photo of a utility pole with a dangling power line that's been frayed
sunset photo of roughly five utility poles, criscrossing power lines and a hanging street crossing light
photograph of power lines crossing with a connective utility box in the middle
ridiculously vibrant sunset photo of three streetlamps that haven't been illuminated yet, standing in silhouette against a red striped sky
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autumn alex
autumn alex
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I love having a clear view of the sky but I also love the way poles and powerlines frame a sky photo and give it depth
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Alzamon (Alberto GM)
Alzamon (Alberto GM)
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The reverse is also true, when you’ve lived with power lines over your head through your life (that’s Latin America for you) and suddenly you realize there are towns where you can actually see a sunset without them on the way. Must be human nature — being amazed for what we’re not being used to. 😁
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Ed Summers
Ed Summers
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there is an infrastructural, or making-the-invisible-visible, aspect to telephone/power lines in photographs. For me they are a reminder of how much work it has taken to build & maintain the world we are in, how fragile it all is, and how we can work to build new worlds, if we set our minds to it. Thank you for sharing these, and the insight!
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