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Standing in a farmer's field on a sunny Sunday morning I can see in the distance, picked out in white against a vivid blue sky, the iconic cooling towers of a nearby power station; they must be two or three miles away. I know I'm relatively close to the busy M1 motorway and directly beneath the flight path of East Midlands Airport, but I can't hear a sound; save for a couple of noisy magpies chewing the fat. And then hooves on tarmac as a pony and trap canters by, keeping tight to the edge of the road, almost hugging the hedgerow. Where are they headed? The next village along, probably. And for that brief moment I'm lost in time. I've only come to take some photographs and get some sun on my back. I think I'll go back next Sunday; take a flask and some sandwiches & stay a while longer.
Lovely post, and the photo is almost like a painting. Be nicer withouyt the cooling towers, but such is the world.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rol. I deliberately deployed a couple of filters that gave it that oil pointing feel (even tho' I have a love/hate relationship with filters).
DeleteNow I love cooling towers; to me, it's the power station that gives the image the stark contrast I was looking for.
Wonderfu - so evocative. I love these little snippets of life and unexpected juxtapositions. Those cooling towers look surprisingly majestic in that setting. Could be an obscure prog rock album cover (perhaps with a solarised version of the image?)
ReplyDeleteYes, majestic sums them up. The Nottingham to London train passes right under them and when I travel down to the capital on the train I just gawp at them like an idiot!
DeleteI'd be very surprised if cooling towers haven't appeared on prog and or industrial album covers - TS would know, I'm sure.
Some years ago I worked on a long and protracted murder case in that area. The (as then un-identified) suspect had made a comment about the power station, which made it loosely relevant to the case. Those cooling towers followed me everywhere. It amazed me, the distances they are visible from.
ReplyDeleteSorry, JM - I could've sworn I replied to this at the time.
DeleteIt wasn't the infamous Radio Trent DJ murder case, was it?
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