Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Pylons
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Summer is here and so a picture of a pylon with blue skies and sea featuring prominently would always have stood a chance of making it onto the website. Having the Golden Gate bridge in the background made it a shoo-in. The picture was sent in by a young electrical engineer on secondment from Australia…
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June's Pylon of the Month comes from the island of Formentera in Spain, which seems entirely appropriate for an early summer pylon. I hope that it's a bit less controversial than April's Pylon which attracted this comment: I was rather dissatisfied with this months pylon and i am considering if I really wish to renew…
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April's Pylon of the Month was provided by a colleague (@RadleyGeol) on a recent Geology field trip and it breaks new ground for the blog because it is the first one on the website to have been taken by a drone – a DJI Spark 2 no less. The field trip was taking place at…
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s March's Pylon of the Month is one of the most amazing pylon pictures that I've seen. I came across it on Twitter (thanks to @city_wander) and although on the whole, I don't tend to use images from the internet on the main blog, I couldn't resist this one. It was taken in California by…
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A belated Happy New Year to pylon fans everywhere, but especially to those in Sweden, because that's where February's pylon comes from. We've had some amazing photographs recently, but I like to keep things real and so this month's pylon is a welcome return to the 'pylon pictures taken from the window of a moving vehicle'…
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As November was pylonless, it only seemed appropriate that December's pylon of the Month should be: Seasonal. A fabulous picture. Just when I was struggling to find a picture that satisfied one of those two criteria never mind both, the picture above popped up in my @pylonofthemonth twitter feed. It was taken by @RubbishRider and…
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This month we have a Scottish pylon from Loch Errochty, a man made freshwater loch in Perth and Kinross. The pylons are on the Beauly to Denny power line which brings power from renewable sources in the north of Scotland to consumers further south. It was (and remains) very controversial and the Herald Scotland reported…
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This month's pylon comes from Salisbury Plain. It was sent in by a fan of the website who had this to say: Driving across Wiltshire about the time of the summer solstice, I could imagine these flat fields being used to grow wheat thousands of years ago. These big bales are reminiscent of standing stones near…
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The month of May passed by without a pylon and so summer is now here rather than 'icumen in'. This month's pylon, however, is looking back to a day in the Alps earlier in the year when a fan of the website took time out to take this picture of a mountain pylon. The angle of the…
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Happy New Year (somewhat belatedly) to pylon fans everywhere! Despite the relatively mild and wet weather as I write this month's post, February seemed the right month for this fantastic picture to feature as Pylon of the Month. It was taken in West Yorkshire just outside Ripponden by Adrian Jackson. As he pointed out…
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