Turkey (part 1)

[mistress_elaine]

I've given the matter some thought, here's what I'll be doing with this journal in the next few weeks. For the next week or so I'll be posting small parts of my Turkey travelogue. I was originally going to post the whole thing in one or two instalments, but on second thoughts, it seems better to divide it into bite-size chunks. I'll try to add a

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[mortsleam]

A tangled horrible mass of powerlines that ruins an otherwise perfectly picturesque photo has a strange attraction on its own though, don't you think? Something about beauty being overtaken by man's relentless need for technology and blah blah blah Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.

[mistress_elaine]

No, I'm afraid I beg to differ. In most cases, powerlines are just ugly, especially when they ruin a perfectly natural sight. For instance, when we were in Tatvan, there were all these gorgeous poplar trees beside the lake. Some of them were hugely photogenic, but the powerlines completely ruined any shot I might have liked to take. Trying to come up with compositions in which the powerlines complemented the scenic beauty didn't work; they were just too ugly for that.

I did get a decent powerline picture in Germany, though. In which the powerlines are the actual subject, rather than a huge eyesore in a picture of something else. :-)