As mid-October came and went, I still hadn't decided on a pylon for the blog when fate intervened and these beauties crossed my path (literally – I was on a short walking holiday with a friend). They can be found close to the village of Coughton just south of Ross-on-Wye. If like me, you are…

April's pylon marks a new departure for the blog – it's an Italian true crime pylon with a grisly but fascinating story attached. From the London Review of Books article which inspired the post:  A bearded man lies flat on his back, arms wide apart, in a field. He has one leg. Nearby, some wires…

December's pylon is from Scotland, but this month marks a first for the blog because the article below is written by the first ever guest editor. If it's good enough for BBC Radio and Vogue then Pylon of the Month is going to jump on the bandwagon and hand over the reins to India and…

  October's Pylon of the Month is a picture that I took myself whilst making a short film for the publishers Unbound.  'The Secret Life of Pylons' is now on their website and I'm really hoping that it will get enough support to get published.  If my hunch is right, there's a gap in the…

Choosing a pylon for December wasn't difficult because as soon as I saw this image it was a no-brainer.   A colleague at work saw it first (it was taken by a young friend of hers) and knowing about my pylon blog immediately alerted me to what is an amazing picture.  It gets even better when…

October’s pylon is yet another ‘better late than never’ pylon. It was snapped in Gifu City, Japan near to where I’m staying for the next week as part of an exchange visit. The location of the pylon right by the side of the road caught my eye, as did the asymmetric design. As I’m doing…

For the last few years, I've made August's Pylon of the Month one that I took on my holidays.  There were pylons aplenty in Slovenia and Croatia, but I either didn't get around to taking a picture, or if I did it wasn't good enough given the high quality of pictures sent in by pylon…

There has been a fair bit of pylon procrastination and a lot of busyness recently and so May's Pylon of the Month is the first since February. I've been as active as ever as @pylonofthemonth on Twitter, but at long last here is another post on the main website.   There are lots of striking…

  Most of the time, Pylon of the Month is a celebration of the ordinary pylons that surround us and it is their quotidian nature that makes them so charming (at least in my eyes).  Every now and then, however, an extraordinary pylon captures my imagination and so for the New Year I bring you…

As promised last month, here is the annual 'what I did on my holidays' pylon.  It was taken in Turkey near to Selcuk and I could have chosen bigger and better pylons, but this one caught my eye as we waited for a bus back from Pamucak beach, a few miles outside town.  It is…