Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, 2018.
Too many pixels, not enough colors, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454/
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Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, 2018.
Too many pixels, not enough colors, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454/
#photography
Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London’s Battersea Power Station was an exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.
Arguably, give the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they should be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
@mattblaze@federate.social If you ever get a chance, you might want to try photographing the Torness AGR nuclear power station in Scotland close to sunrise or sunset. It’s right on the coast (for seawater cooling), close by the A1(M) and east coast main line, and looks amazing in the right light (a 1980s-built temple of technology).
@cstross@wandering.shop Added to the list! Thanks.
@mattblaze I love this picture.
I’m always struck by how great looking the Richmond and Delaware generating stations on the Delaware River are. If you haven’t see the latter since it became The Battery, it looks fantastic since it’s been cleaned up.
https://www.thebatteryphl.com/about/
@cschrader@jawns.club I’ve not seen it recently - definitely on the list next time I’m up that way. Thanks