Pylon Collection (#11)

Arkhangelsk (Archangel), city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

Greetings from Egypt
A Happy New Year card sent from a British man stationed in Egypt to a friend in Westminster. The message on the back includes the line

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Traditional mud dovecot, with pylon (monumental gateway) of temple in background, Medinet Habu (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III), West Bank, Luxor, Egypt, january

Electricity transmission pylon standing in arable field, with unintentional wildlife habitat underneath, Bacton, Suffolk, England, june

Electricity transmission pylons crossing over farmland, Forfar, Angus, Scotland, november

White Storks nesting on electrical pylon, Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain

Electricity North West workers removing branches from trees to clear electricity powerlines, Whitewell, Lancashire, England, december

White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) adult with chicks, in nest on tree trunk, with nuclear powerstation in background, Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Philippsburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, may

Bureya hydroelectric dam, Russia
Bureya hydroelectric dam. This dam (left) is being built on the Bureya River, a tributary of the Amur River, in the Amur region of Russias Far East

Bioenergy. Cotham power station (right) and electricity pylons are seen on land used for the production of wood as fuel. Here

Electricity transmission lines at sunset
Electricity pylons at sunset. These pylons carry the high tension (high voltage) supplies of national grid systems from the power stations to local distribution sub-stations

Pylons and power lines at sunset
Electricity pylons at sunset. These pylons carry the high tension (high voltage) supplies of national grid systems from the power stations to local distribution sub-stations

Pylon
Electricity pylon. Electricity pylons are steel towers for supporting electricity cables. Collectively these make up the national grid

Pylon carrying electricity
Electricity pylon. Computer-enhanced image of an electricity pylon with glowing cables. Pylons carry the cables that transport electricity from power stations to substations

Computer artwork of high-voltage power lines
Electricity power lines. Computer artwork of high voltage electricity power lines. These cables transmit the electricity of national grid systems from power stations to local distribution sub

Computer image of a full moon and pylons
Energy. Computer generated image of electricity pylons and a full moon

Pylons carrying electricity wires at sunset
Electricity pylons. Electricity pylons carrying high voltage wires against a background of the setting sun. The wires have to be high above the ground to prevent them interfering with land-based

Power lines

Norilsk industrial centre, Russia
Industrial centre in the Arctic. This is part of the Norilsk industrial centre, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberian Russia

Electric power lines crossing a sea. Photographed in June 1998, in Azerbaijan

Technician servicing a power line insulator
MODEL RELEASED. Electricity pylon maintenance. View of a technician working on the maintenance of a power line. The cable carrying the electricity (not seen)

Wooden pylon supporting powerlines. The voltage transmitted in powerlines supported by wood is restricted due to the limitation in the height of the poles. Photographed in the United Arab Emirates

Electricity pylon in fog. Rural electricity pylon surrounded by fog at dusk. Photographed in Somerset, UK

High Scaler sculpture at Hoover Dam
The High Scaler, a bronze sculpture (by Steven Liguori) at Hoover Dam commemorating the men who scaled the Colorado Canyon to set blasting charges during dam construction

Electricity pylons at hydroelectric dam
Hydroelectric power. Electricity pylons at the Krasoyarsk Hydropower Plant. The red objects are the upper bearings of the turbines that are sunk into the floor below

Electricity power pylon
Electric Power Pylon spreads the energy to the Grid

Electricity pylon in Gazipasa, Turkey
Electricity pylon in agricultural region near Gazipasa, Turkey

Cast concrete electricity pylon in Gazipasa, Turkey

Rainbow over trees

Rainbow over trees

Rainbow over power lines. Photographed on the Somerset Levels, England, UK, in December

Underwater scenery. Soft corals growing on the pylons of a pier. Photographed in the Red Sea, Egypt

The Bosporus Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

Temple at Philae, Egypt
The Pharoahs Pavilion at the Temple of Philae, Egypt. Many years prior to the forced relocation of this spectacular Ancient Egyptain site due to the rising water created by the building of the Aswan

Temple Pylon at Edfu, Egpyt
Edfu, was capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Martinique - The Covered Market at Fort-de-France
Fort-de-france, Martinique, The Old Covered Market

Egyptian scenes
A very early Egyptian postcard with scenes from the country including dhows and feluccas on the River Nile (set within a crescent motif) and a water carrier loading up a donkey

British Troops fighting at Aanderberg Crossroads; Second Wor
Sketch showing British infantry fighting off German paratroops at Aanderberg Crossroads, Holland, January 1945. On the left of the image is a disabled British Cromwell tank

Obelisk at Luxor
The remaining in situ obelisk before the main front entrance to the Temple at Luxor. The sister obelisk was moved to the Place de la Concorde in Paris

Luxor Temple (Detail)
The front Pylon at Luxor showing the massive seated statues of Rameses II and the empty base of the obelisk now standing in the Place de la Concorde, Paris

Luxor (Front View)
The Great front Pylon of Luxor Temple, which originally was fronted by 6 statues of Rameses II, two sitting and four standing. Built around 1250 BC

Temple of Luxor / Egypt
A detail looking through the front Pylon at Luxor toward the columned hall beyond. The two weathered forms of Rameses II sit in stately pose behind the one remaining obelisk

Temple of Luxor
Giant, seated statues of RAMESES II ( The Great ), in front of the Pylon of the AMUN TEMPLE (TEMPLE OF LUXOR), Thebes (modern Luxor ) Egypt

Horus the Falcon God
A statue of the Egyptian god HORUS, in the form of a falcon in front of the outer Pylon of the Horus Temple Edfu, Egypt, with reliefs of Horus and his wife Hathor

In 2008 China officially became the worlds largest emitter of C02 (greenhouse gases)
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Sunset behind an electricity pylon in Cumbria, UK
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A cumbrian woodland near Brampton at sunset, UK
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