[Leica] Highlands PAW 13

[Douglas Barry]

That's a massive operation, John, and an impressive picture of it. 
They're going to be huge. Each completed turbine is going 240 metres 
high and is going to be plonked on top of those lattice "jackets" which 
appear to be roughly the same height as the crane ship out there - the 
Stanislav Yudin. Its clearance height appears to be 20 metres, so each 
of those yokes is going to top out at 260 metres high by my amateur 
reckoning. With 90 of them out there, I'm wondering how the anti 
environmental eyesore voices allowed them to get through planning?

Anyway, you'll have plenty to watch from your window in the coming 
years, and you'll certainly be able to justify buying that 800mm lens, 
or maybe borrow that monster 1600mm Leica one from the late Sheikh Al 
Thani's children...

Douglas



On 07/04/2018 11:45, John McMaster wrote:
> Not much time for photography, this is the Beatrice Wind Farm under construction.  There will be 90 turbines, currently just the bases are in place (and the cable infrastructure).  The evening light showed them up well, they are about 4 miles away hence not totally sharp.  This is a large image as they are spread out along the horizon, please zoom in to see the detail....
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> http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2018/13/
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> john
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