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Niagara – Electrifying North America

The Day of the Tripods

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Some of you will recall I started this year with a project highlighting the human and industrial presence in the Meadowlands (you can see the start of that series from New Years Day here). Last weekend I was back at a slightly different location, the Richard DeKorte Park near Lyndhurst, NJ on the Hackensack River. We were lucky enough to get one of the first beautiful warm days of Spring. The next few posts will show my first rough cut of images from the shoot. (Click any image to see them all enlarged.)

Overpass

Blue and Gold

Crossflare

Disused

Allow me to repeat the many warnings not to take photographs on railway lines. this is a clearly closed up and disused line or I would not have been taking pictures from this vantage point.

The Long View

I’m no expert on railroads, but I think this is an abandoned turntable railway bridge

Pylons, Pulaski and Pasture

Fields of Gold

The Turnpike and the Pylon

Down by the Riverside

Scenic Overlook

Another Pisgah Pylon Sight of the Promised Land

More Trees

Continuing this morning’s theme, here are some more tree-like structures in landscapes (click any of them to see larger).

Human-Made Trees

Driving home through New Jersey, it struck me that we humans build an awful lot of structures that grow up tall and spread out branches like trees. Here, a small selection…

(click any image to see them all full-sized)