Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylon of the Month
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This month we head off to Suffolk, but before I say any more, I thought that I would give you an insight into how this month's pylon came to be chosen. It is actually the first of my own photographs to feature for some time, because I have been inundated with pictures from across the…
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I used Wordle to create a word cloud from the RSS feed of Pylon of the Month. The bigger the word, the more often it appears on the website. The fact that two recent pylons came from Australia is fairly obvious!
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It has been another busy month and I was wondering whether to skip a month (again), but then events took a rather interesting turn when Pylon of the Month was mentioned on the PM programme on BBC Radio 4. The average number of page views per day is about 36, but yesterday (24th May) I…
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This month's sees Pylon of the Month in the southern hemisphere for the first time. A fan of the website from Australia sent this picture with the following information: "Here are a few snaps from a recent road trip from Adelaide, South Australia to Melbourne, Victoria." I use Google Analytics to see where my blog…
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Happy New Year to pylon fans everywhere. After a Christmas break where I failed to get any pylon pictures with accompanying snow and ice I decided to start 2011 with this rather marvellous image taken by a pylon fan very close to Radley, a few miles outside Oxford. I like it on a purely…
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After last month's rock and roll pylon, I decided to head abroad again with this picture submitted by yet another fan of the website. The pylons are in the Arizona Desert near the City of Page ("the center of canyon country") and almost certainly carry electricity away from the coal fired Navajo Generating Station. You can…
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After two recent posts about pylons that have not yet been built and a holiday pylon that was very much in the background, I felt that it was time to get back to a plain vanilla picture of a pylon. The picture may not be anything unusual (although it is far from dull especially with…
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August was an exciting month as Pylon of the Month got a mention on the BBC website. As a result, the previous record for the number of page views in a day was smashed and now stands at 1355. The BBC article was really about an innovative new pylon design that you can see…
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Another August and another holiday pylon. Like 2009, this one is from Turkey although from the Mediterranean rather than the Aegean coast. The picture was taken overlooking the Roman theatre at the ruins of the Lycian town of Myra. We were actually staying in Kalkan, about 90 minutes away, but a day trip allowed us…
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This month sees a departure from the normal for Pylon of the Month. The picture above is of a pylon that has not yet been built. It is, however, the winning design in the recent "Pylons of the Future" international competition run by Italian energy supplier Terna. The picture comes from the winning design team, HDA Hugh…
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